One Wonderful Week

I alluded to my brother coming to visit a couple weeks ago, and he was here this past week leaving on Friday.  It was a wonderful week!  It was so great to have my one and only brother (and now Allison's one and only bro) here.  His being here, helps explain the relatively low amount of blog posts over the past week.

I was debating blogging about this, but I figured it would make for a fun post and reflection.  So here goes. 

What Happens When Your Brother and Best Man Comes to Visit

He flies in, expecting it to be Minnesota.  He arrives and realizes its sunny and 45, so he is perfectly happy that he decided to travel in typical fashion of wearing shorts.  He was greeted by a surprise of a couple friends joining us in our trip to the airport in order to make an IKEA run afterward.  I don't think he much liked the idea of going shopping but it worked out okay with a great dinner as well.

The weather decided to cooperate amazingly while he was here.  He happened to pick the first full week of warm weather.  We got some quality walks in and exploration.  We got to walk across the Mississippi and visit the Witches Hat on the Hill.  We even got some quality frisbee time. 

He was inspired by the church we are at, Cross of Hope in Ramsey.  He enjoyed meeting the pastor, Sunday and Wednesday worship, and even choir rehearsal. 

He even had the chance to come sit in on a class or two, especially enjoying the Feminist Theologian class which had a guest speaker, Dr. Mary Lowe present and talk this past Wednesday. 

And in the true measure marking that my brother was visiting, we went through nearly 4 gallons of milk in one week.  Yep, typical Siburg fashion of skim milk consumption. 

It was, admittedly a different spring break then say going some place warm and tropical, but I like to hope and believe that it was still a great spring break for him.  It certainly was a well-needed visit for Allison and I, and it was a great joy and blessing.  We are looking forward to going home for a few weeks in late May to help him celebrate his graduation from PLU.