New People in a New Year

As we relaxed most of the weekend we realized that this was the first weekend that we had actually spent entirely at our house since Thanksgiving. It is amazing how insane the holiday's can be and how every weekend was some sort of family gathering pulling us from Philly. Don't get us wrong, we love our families and made some really great memories, but what a relief to just hang out at home as the 2 of us (uh...4 of us). We also realized how much we have neglected a thorough cleaning of our house as well. But that is not exciting, so we will talk about the "new" people in our life this weekend.

One thing Dan and I really want to do is make new friends, haha. We love the friends that we have, but in a city as big as this one, we need to get out and meet more people as well as get to know our current friends even better. Well, no time like the present! Friday night after hanging out with 2 philly cops after our car had been sideswiped (a whole other story unto itself) we drove only 7 blocks to hang out with our friends Amaryah and Dave. After checking out their amazingly renovated new place, we took off to Northern Liberties and North Bowl.

If you like to bowl, this is one of the neatest places to go in the area. Of course you need to get there early because there is ALWAYS a ridiculous wait time. Luckily they have delicious food (tater tots!) to keep you waiting. The four of us enjoyed some dinner (tater tots!) and drinks and actually didn't end up bowling at all. But the atmosphere is really great and we had a wonderful time chatting it up. We highly recommend North Bowl (and their tater tots!) to any bowlers or even non-bowlers!

Saturday after Chris' first rehearsal with 180 Dance Company, we took off to our friend Jed's place to celebrate Genevieve's birthday. We got to meet 2 other couples and play lots of Apples to Apples until late in the night. Lots of great conversation was had and we were all entertained by the one couples beautiful baby girl. Although as Dan mentioned, "hanging out with married people, there is A LOT of talk about babies, I am not sure if I can take it!". So sorry, but no babies here for a while. :)

After our mega cleaning on Sunday we drove over to West Philadelphia to attend a service at Grace Church. It was so encouraging to meet people right away who were genuinly excited to meet us. It was a great service and we are definitely going to go back again next weekend. It is so exciting to see people of ALL ages and ALL races worshiping together. There were lots of young couples (yay for new friends!) that we hope to get to know. Plus as Dan said "they have a motorcyle men's group and dinner after church each Sunday, this gets better and better." But really it was a great message and they are really into service in the community (which is a big plus in Chris' opinion). We are definitely excited to go back.

So lots of new people (and getting to know other friends) this weekend. We feel the need more and more to meet other people in this great city and make it our "home". And remember, if you ever want to come bowling, we're ready for ya!