This past weekend was a Godsend after last weeks weather.  The sky was blue, the air was warm, and the sunshine was luminescent.  Friday we took off from work early and headed up to Lake Maria (pronounces Mariah) State Park in Monticello.  We got up there around 3pm and grabbed our packs and started hiking in.  We had a wonderful site (B15) that was up on a wooded hill and overlooked one of the lakes in the park.  It was about a mile to hike in, a fairly easy hike.  We enjoyed a fire and the sounds of nature and were able to sleep in the next morning.  We hiked the long way out, about 3.5 miles. 

Sunday was another beautiful day and we did a 10 mile bike ride.  Biked into Rosemount to return some library books and pick up a book I had on hold.  We’ve biked so much this season in cold weather that it felt so incredibly weird to be biking in the sunshine and not freezing our bums off.  It was a refreshing experience.

Sunday evening,Matt and Megan, our fall small group leaders, picked us up to head to the Science Museum to see the Dead Sea Scrolls.  The scrolls were amazing.  The exhibit consists of lots of pottery and history about the scrolls.  I was surprised at the amount of scroll displayed, I thought there would be more.  There 6 pieces in all, and most of them were just that, pieces.  The biggest piece was a scroll from Psalms, it was actually quite long.  It was amazing to think that these scraps of parchment were able to withstand the test of time for 2000 years before being discovered.  After the scrolls we had fun playing around in the rest of the Science Museum.  Nathan really enjoyed the gadgetry they had to make fire, light, clouds, and other various things. 

Eventually we wrapped up there and headed to Cosetta’s for dinner.  I’ve eaten there once before, Nathan never.  It was so amazingly delicious.  We shared a few different dishes: lasagna, mostaciolli, gorgonzola pasta salad, and a slice of pizza.  Mmmmm.  So good.  During dinner I commented that we shouldn’t have gotten so much food, we could have gotten tiramisu for dessert then.  Nathan, being the awesome husband that he is, said we should just get some to go!  So we did, we got tiramisu and a cannoli to eat at home later that night.  It was delicious, but Nathan of course said my tiramisu is better