This weekend was mostly about soup. Beth is almost satisfied with what she has made for the first two shows, which is good because the first one is next weekend. 

Alex is back home. He got back Tuesday, having spent Monday night at Laura & Thomas's again. The hotel was able to find most of his stuff, most not all. A few t-shirts are missing, his electric razor, and his retainer. Why? Nobody can figure out why his retainer and razor would have been taken. But they weren't with the rest of his things. He's left them a scathing review on hotels.com. Anyway, hopefully the motel losing his stuff experience won't color the whole trip. Although next time he says he would fly. Driving in New York is horrible. 

We were supposed to have our life group meeting today, and I felt bad about cancelling it but there was a men's event at the same time. Because it was wet and chilly, the even was held indoors at the church instead of back by the bonfire area. Basically it was cookout (hot dogs and burgers), fellowship, and worship for a couple hours, with a guest speaker. Life group would have conflicted, but hardly anyone's been attending anyway.