Another Monday has come and gone. Last week we went to a midweek Bible study on Wednesday night. There were a lot of people there! It meets in Pastor Ed's house and it's a good thing he has a big living room, because there were probably 50 people there. We will be studying Don Whitney's book "Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health" but this week was spent introducing everyone and sharing some prayer requests.

We decided to get away for the weekend and put our PriceLine skills to the test. We weren't very particular about where we went. Our criteria were basically: not too far away (less than 2 hrs by car) and a good deal (finding a 3-star hotel for less than 50% of what it normally costs).

We ended up in Norwalk, Connecticut. At first, we weren't very excited about the town. Since it's on the ocean, we expected more of a touristy town, but we weren't there to see the town, so that didn't bother us. On Saturday we decided to try to visit a few wineries and learned that one of the wineries in the area was having a festival. So, we drove to northwestern Connecticut and had a fabulous time at the festival - there were arts and crafts being displayed, lots of free samples from local vendors (cheese, coffee, infused olive oil, scones, tomato sauce, and the best granola we've ever tasted), and, of course, wine tasting. They had a few local restaurants with booths set up outside selling food, so we had some Filafels and Chicken Kebabs. We had a great time enjoying the surroundings and just hanging out. That left us with a much better impression of Connecticut than just the area surrounding our hotel, so we're really glad we got out to see more of the state.