January has been a pretty busy month for us. We started back to work and school, and things haven't slowed down since! Last weekend we celebrated Stephen's birthday by going to Emeril's Delmonico on St. Charles Avenue. Emeril's Delmonico is in an old antebellum house that was later converted into the restaurant Delmonico's. Emeril then bought it and made into one of his restaurants. It was lots of fun getting dressed up and eating deeeeelicious food! I had an epiphany while we were waiting on our food to arrive at the table. I was looking out the window by our table and saw one of the trolleys driving down St. Charles. I thought to myself, "How cool is that?! How often in my life am I going to live in a town that still has a working trolley system. Probably not ever again to be honest! New Orleans is such a strange and bizarre town, but it does have a lot of interesting culture and history. I am glad to say that Stephen and I getting the opportunity to experience all of this.
This past week I had the opporunity to attend a conference for Christian educators in Galveston, Texas. I was very excited because I've never been farther west than New Orleans! This is the beautiful lobby of Moody Gardens where we stayed for the ACSI conference. It was a super nice place to stay. It was nice to get away for just a little while, even if it was for work! I really enjoyed the opportunity to fellowship with some of my coworkers and get to know them a little better. It was also nice to learn some new ideas to implement in the classroom.
This was the view from outside our hotel window. We could see the Galveston Bay and the Aquarium!
The first night we were in Galveston, we all went to eat at The Rainforest Cafe. It was a really fun and yummy place to eat. I've always wanted to eat at one of those restaurants. Stephen and I had a chance to eat at one in Disney, but because it wasn't on the dining plan, we didn't want to waste money eating there! However, after eating there, I now know it would've been worth it!
We had to walk under this beautiful aquarium of fish to go into the restaurant!
These were the elephants that we shared our table with. They trumpeted about every 10 minutes!
My "little" turkey club sandwich that became lunch for Thursday as well!
me and Cha Cha the frog!
We concluded our evening by watching the volcano on top of the restaurant "erupt." This was no small feat because we stood out in the cold waiting for about 20 minutes for this event to actually happen. The volcano "erupts" on all the half hours, but for some reason, this particular eruption was delayed! You can't rush nature I guess haha!
Stephen and me getting ready for the concert. On my way home from Galveston, Stephanie, one of our seminary friends and neighbors in our apartment building, invited us to go with her and Jeff to Biloxi to the Rock and Worship Roadshow hosted by Mercy Me! We off course were happy to tag along! The artists included The Afters, Matt Maher, Thousand Foot Krutch, Jars of Clay, and Mercy Me.
The Afters opened up the concert!
Matt Maher...one of my favorite artists of the night! :)
Mercy Me puts on a VERY good show!!
January has been a pretty busy month for us. We started back to work and school, and things haven't slowed down since! Last weekend we celebrated Stephen's birthday by going to Emeril's Delmonico on St. Charles Avenue. Emeril's Delmonico is in an old antebellum house that was later converted into the restaurant Delmonico's. Emeril then bought it and made into one of his restaurants. It was lots of fun getting dressed up and eating deeeeelicious food! I had an epiphany while we were waiting on our food to arrive at the table. I was looking out the window by our table and saw one of the trolleys driving down St. Charles. I thought to myself, "How cool is that?! How often in my life am I going to live in a town that still has a working trolley system. Probably not ever again to be honest! New Orleans is such a strange and bizarre town, but it does have a lot of interesting culture and history. I am glad to say that Stephen and I getting the opportunity to experience all of this.
This past week I had the opporunity to attend a conference for Christian educators in Galveston, Texas. I was very excited because I've never been farther west than New Orleans! This is the beautiful lobby of Moody Gardens where we stayed for the ACSI conference. It was a super nice place to stay. It was nice to get away for just a little while, even if it was for work! I really enjoyed the opportunity to fellowship with some of my coworkers and get to know them a little better. It was also nice to learn some new ideas to implement in the classroom.
This was the view from outside our hotel window. We could see the Galveston Bay and the Aquarium!
The first night we were in Galveston, we all went to eat at The Rainforest Cafe. It was a really fun and yummy place to eat. I've always wanted to eat at one of those restaurants. Stephen and I had a chance to eat at one in Disney, but because it wasn't on the dining plan, we didn't want to waste money eating there! However, after eating there, I now know it would've been worth it!
We had to walk under this beautiful aquarium of fish to go into the restaurant!
These were the elephants that we shared our table with. They trumpeted about every 10 minutes!
My "little" turkey club sandwich that became lunch for Thursday as well!
me and Cha Cha the frog!
We concluded our evening by watching the volcano on top of the restaurant "erupt." This was no small feat because we stood out in the cold waiting for about 20 minutes for this event to actually happen. The volcano "erupts" on all the half hours, but for some reason, this particular eruption was delayed! You can't rush nature I guess haha!
Stephen and me getting ready for the concert. On my way home from Galveston, Stephanie, one of our seminary friends and neighbors in our apartment building, invited us to go with her and Jeff to Biloxi to the Rock and Worship Roadshow hosted by Mercy Me! We off course were happy to tag along! The artists included The Afters, Matt Maher, Thousand Foot Krutch, Jars of Clay, and Mercy Me.
The Afters opened up the concert!
Matt Maher...one of my favorite artists of the night! :)
Mercy Me puts on a VERY good show!!
Rainforest Cafe is awesome!! You look so "sophisticated" in the first pic. Love it, sis. :)
ReplyDeletehaha...sophisticated i am not...you know this! but thanks for the compliment!! :)
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