Our friends Dustin and Erica got married in October. Here's a fun picture of Nathan with Dustin - these two grew up together in Erie and then ended up at the same college.
After the (utterly fantastic) wedding reception, we spontaneously decided to stay in NJ for the night rather than driving home, and then go to NYC (my first time in the city) the next morning.
Our friend Marissa came with us:
It was a Sunday morning, so naturally, we wanted to go to church. We decided on "Smokey Mary's," and we enjoyed their service very much!
After church we wandered around to see the sights. Marissa has been to NYC lots of times, so she was a great tour guide.
Marissa is the dramatic soprano with a taste for Broadway flair:
I'm the straight-laced one with a violin strapped on my back. (I had played at the wedding the day before, so I had my violin with me. Yay backpack straps that make carrying that thing around all day a lot easier!)
New York City, you're so exciting.
Poor Marissa probably hadn't counted on the fact that Nathan and I are kind of ecclesiophiles (I may have made up this word), and we really love going to churches. So after lunch and some sight-seeing, we dragged her along to Evensong at St. Thomas church on Fifth Ave. It was glorious. Nathan took this picture because he loves pipe organs:
Marissa was a good sport about our unique choices in things to do in NYC.
What an enjoyable trip!
Being spontaneous is fun.
Wow, what a great trip - how fun. Thanks for sharing the pics, even if they have been sitting on your camera for awhile. And I think I'm an ecclesiophile too. I can't tell you how many churches I dragged poor Matt into on our Honeymoon... and I wasn't even Christian then. (figure that one out!) I still love to do this whenever I get a chance, but now that I think about it has been a very long time since I've had the opportunity. Ah, life in the boonies with small children...
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