Thomas and I have officially been living in New England for over 3 weeks now. Lots has been going on as we are still settling in and getting used to what real rush hour traffic is. (Greenville, you haven't seen anything!) Thomas has received the job at Zion Lutheran Church and we are so pleased to see this answer to our prayer. I am still looking for a job but am now expanding my options to the realm outside of music. There are several places near Yale campus that will be hiring for the transition into school starting and I have decided to apply to some of these places. I believe that my southern charm will help me become the most awesome waitress New Haven has ever seen. :)
We went contradancing last Saturday night and found a really great group of people. The call, Bill Fischer, was a super cool guy whose house is an old barn (turned into a house). Once a month they host a festival for music and dancing where you can bring your instrument and they help you learn more about fiddle/folk music and then they contra later. Everyone jams together and Thomas and I know that this is where we might take our little bluegrass "band" next. Haha! We have found a church that preaches the Word pastored by Johnathan Holst. We are trying to get plugged into this church and do what we can to praise the Lord with our skills and talents. We are very blessed to have this church to go to.
We are trying to get back into the habit of running daily (the move stopped us for a few weeks) but we have found that it is a bit harder than anticipated. One problem that we have run into (hehe - no pun intended) is that the air here is not nearly as humid or heavy as the air in Columbia, SC. Our mouths get dry here when we run - it's strange how something so small like that seems to have a huge impact on our running.
In other news, we are huge fans of Chef Gordon Ramsey and we hope to go to his restaurant in NYC in August for my birthday. We watch all his shows online and we feel like we know him - so if we meet him, it could get weird. Our tomato plant is doing really well - we hope to have ripe juicy purple tomatoes by next week... and hopefully our oregano will decided to start sprouting soon as well. It's raining now - I was hoping to go running after this - but it has started raining (something we see A LOT of here). So, I guess I will go play Risk 2210 A.D. with Thomas. I told him I would play with him and he needed to set it up before I change my mind. ;)
Continue to pray for us while we are here. We thank you for all your thoughts and prayers.
In Christ,
The Russells
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