Maine, Red Sox's, Walk for Hunger....Just another weekend

So Andrew and I and another "quiet" weekend...... Just kidding!

Friday afternoon I left with my girlfriend, Christina (she and I are in Bible study together) for Freeport, Maine. It was only my second night away from Andrew since we got married almost 4months ago.....We got up to Maine around 6pm and checked into the cutest Bed & Breakfast. (www.brewsterhouse.com) The owners were Nikki and Lester and were such a cute couple. We then drove over to Lewiston for the first part of a Beth Moore conference (www.lproof.org) When we got there we saw a couple friends from church which was a nice surprise. While we were going to buy tickets for the conference, we were handed two tickets and told that a group had bought a bunch of tickets, didn't need those two and wanted to bless someone! Christina and I stood there dumbfounded that we were being given two free tickets! When the woman gave them to us....she said "you know what this means.....God really wants you to be here!" (Not intimidating at all :) Friday night the conference went from 7-9:30 and then on Saturday 8:30-12. After the evening session.... (the topic was on bones) we drove back to Freeport to do a little late night L.L. Bean shopping and get dinner. The store in Freeport is open 24hrs a day! There was only 2 places open by the time we got back to Freeport, Friendly's and McDonalds! We ended up at McDonalds with about 20 other woman from the conference. (crazily it was a "cute" McDonald's... It was a stand alone home looking building and you went in through a front door and there was even a fireplace in one of the sitting areas) After a happy meal of chicken nuggets we went shopping.

Saturday the conference went well. We got there a bit late, as Lester and Nikki were serving up omletts, fruit bowls, coffee cake etc for breakfast!!! After the conference was over Christina and I went looking for Bates College to see where my parents first met and lived most of their first year of marriage...... Thinking because it was a small town and Bates being an old college we thought it would be easy to find...WRONG! After 45min and stopping to ask 3 different people we finally found it! It was very beautiful and we even found the house where my parents lived off campus. After that drama we headed back to Freeport to do the serious shopping! There are awesome outlet stores up there! And the town looks like it is a movie set...everything is cute, clean and "picture-perfect". We hit up a bunch of stores and only managd to do minor damage to both of our credit cards :) While I was shopping a client called and asked if Andrew and I wanted 2 tickets to the Red Soxs game for that night......(mind you these are between 3rd and home and about 10 rows up from the field!) I of course said yes, and we cut shopping short to get home.

Poor Andrew had been working on his thesis the whole time I was gone! And he was still feeling like he had not gotten enough done. He came home just before we had to leave for the game. We got to the game at the end of the 1st inning, having wolfed down Fenway saugasges as we made our way to the seats! (we were told not to eat in the seats, as we would be on TV alot) The game was awesome!!!! They played the Orieles and beat them 10-3. The weather was perfect! It was an awesome break for Andrew and nice to see them play before we move.

Sunday we woke up very early (7:30am on a Sunday!!!!) Andrew was heading to the lab and I was going to walk 20miles for Hunger! I met up with several of my high students and we started walking around 9ish. One of them, was wearing flip-flops....(first clue she was going to bail before we were done) The weather was perfect for walking, cool and sunny! The first student bailed at 8 miles, the second bailed at 13.5. (a bunch had started out with us, but because of the crowds we had all gotten separated) There was music along the way and so many walkers (I found out later that 43,000 people did the walk and about 3.2million dollars was raised! www.projectbread.org) I finally crossed the finish line at about 3:30pm...A little over 6hrs. with a stop for lunch. My legs were killing me!!!!! (and sadly I am supposed to be in "shape") Andrew met me at the finish line and we headed home for a nap.

After our nap, we went to church and then went home to get Andrew dinner and 32oz of coffee so he could work all night in the lab!!! He called me about 11pm saying he had a few more hours of work left, but it was coming along. Well....4:45am rolled around and I woke up in a panic with Andrew not home yet! I called him and he said he was just finishing and would be home soon. Finally at around 5:15am he came home having worked all night!!!! We will both be so glad when this thesis is done!

A day in the life of us

So I decided that our stories are fun, but most of you all don't actually know what our "normal" days look like. Here is a little peek into our world:

Mondays:
6ish am Brooks' alarm starts going off (she will snooze it at least 1 or 2x)
6:30am Brooks is out the door heading to Weston (suburbs of Boston)/Andrew sometimes
leaves at the same time
7am Brooks is with her first client - only 30min long
8am 2nd client of the day (about 20min away from the first) 3 ladies she has been working
with for 3 years! They are her honorary Mom's away from home.
9ish am Andrew arrives at work
9:10am 3rd client of the morning - a woman expecting her first baby
10:30am At Cambridge School of Weston to teach a morning conditioning class for 7 students
12pm Class out - lunch with students
11am -1pm Andrew in class
1-2:30pm office work/emails or errands (brooks)
2:45-4:15pm Teach a 2nd class - Weight Training for 15 students
5pm Last client of the day (30 min away from school) - 9yr. girl I take running
6:30-7pm arrive at home depending on city traffic
7:30pm - 9:30pm For 10 weeks this spring Andrew and I did a Bible Study on Finances at Park
Street Church that just ended 2 wks ago (www.crown.org)
8-11pm (currently) Andrew arrives home - depends on the day and how well his thesis work is
coming

Tuesdays:
5:40am Brooks' alarm starts going off (again she will snooze it :)
6am Brooks leaves for 1st client
6:30-8:30am 1 st client - Husband and wife team
9ish - arrive at school
9-10am Andrew arrives at work/MIT
10:30 -12pm teach Conditioning class (www.csw.org)
12pm lunch with students
1pm -2:30pm possible clients, errands etc...
2:45pm - 4:15pm Weight training class and running conditioning practice for girls lacross team
4:20pm Triathlon class - taking students running
7pm Bible study for both Andrew and I (www.parkstreetcafe.org)
9:30pm home

Wednesday:
Pretty much the same as Monday, sometimes Brooks does not have her 7am client and so we both leave the house at 7:30am for her first client at 8am.

Thursday:
7am Andrew's alarm goes off
7:45am - 8:45am Andrew goes to a Men's breakfast at the Union Club down the street from our
apartment (they have 4 local pastors speak on rotation)
9am One of 3 things happens
1. Brooks stays sleeping and Andrew goes straight to work
2. Andrew comes back and decides to take a morning nap with Brooks or
3. Brooks meets a friend for coffee and girl time and Andrew goes to work
10:15am Brooks take the T to pick up the car at Andrew's work
11am -12:15pm Brooks teaches Conditioning class
12:30 - 2:30pm Brooks usually has lunch/coffee with a friend somewhere around the city
2:45pm -4:15pm Brooks back at school to teach triathlon class - swimming (no weight training
class on Thursday's)
5pm Brooks to MIT to work-out Andrew. I have been training Andrew to get ready for his
physical fitness test for the Air Force (which is next week!!)
6:30-7pm Brooks Home and sometimes Andrew too (depending on the thesis)

Friday:
This is also almost the same as Monday and Wednesday. Andrew does not have class on Friday's so he just works on his thesis the whole day. Friday nights we tend to lay low because we are both tired from the week...We have a date night in :)

The weekends change alot because of our travels, but when we are here the usual is:
Saturday/Sunday:
10-11am Sleep in, make a big breakfast (this is all Andrew department - he makes awesome
omletts!!)
11am (Sunday) Listen to the morning church service on the radio
12ish Andrew leaves for the lab to work on his thesis
12-6pm I wander around the city, clean the apartment, do laundry, have friends visit etc....
4 or 6pm(Sunday) Andrew and I go to the evening church service at Park Street. It depends on
Andrew as to which one we go to. If we go to the 4pm he will sometimes go
back to the lab until around 8-9pm.
8-9pm (Saturday) Sometimes we get together to have dinner with friends, otherwise Andrew
gets home from the lab late and we stay home and watch a movie together.
He is usually completely wiped out from working so much on his thesis.

Hope you all enjoyed the peek into our life. I am hoping to upload photos from our "world" so you all can get a feel for where we live!