Sunday

I used to dislike Sundays. It meant a new work week starting and the end of the fun, relaxing weekend. It was a day to get laundry done, lessons planned, errands run. But, lately, I've found that Sunday is one of my favorite days. I try to get everything done by Saturday evening so that, on the whole, I can utilize Sunday for what it was created for -- rest. Today was a definite testament to how wonderfully restful and relaxing Sunday can be.

This was the first Sunday of Lent and our first member class at church. It was also the men's spaghetti lunch, Haiti fundraiser. After lunch we decided to spend the afternoon exploring and enjoying Columbia and the beautiful, spring-like weather. The third Sunday of every month is "open house" at the arboreteum in Glenn's neighborhood. We always forget about it and today we remembered! We headed there to check it out and it was so great. We can't wait to go back throughout the spring to see how the trees and flowers change and bloom. I took a ton of pictures, we got some great excercise and we learned that the neighborhood was (many, many, many years ago) at one time part of the Atlantic Ocean!!

This is the drop off where part of the Atlantic at one time came to!

Yes!! It really was 70 degrees!! Beautiful!!

From there we walked to Rosewood Dairy Bar for milkshakes before walking through Shandon to the church and down some streets we don't usually explore. It was a terrific walk!! We ended this beautiful Sunday by making dinner --- marinated porterhouse, tomato-feta stuffed chicken breasts, and green beans --- and eating outside on the deck. I can't think of a better way to spend Sunday!!