ange's musings

...the fact that it seems very wrong that after getting back from a week away on Sunday night, this is the first opportunity so far I have had to sit down, catch up on email, chill out with some fresh coffee and even unpack my suitcase (filled with thankfully clean laundry, due to a weekend spent at home sick). Hmmmm......seems a sad thing to me that weekly routine can get so filled up that it takes time away (thousands of miles away sometimes) to take stock, think, listen, reflect. I think that is another thing I do appreciate about the gift of travel and time, a forced long coach journey or flight gives me time to think a little, pray quietly and just converse a bit with God knowing that he always listens - trying to get that back into my daily life here again is more of a struggle. But I am trying even if it means using my commute in to listen to some worship songs rather than my usual whilst praying for the day ahead. It's easy to get really good at juggling lots of balls, plan

so have decided to start twittering on twitter, i'll see how that goes and am unfortunately in my last 5 hours on US land, leaving JFK airport in NYC in just 5 hours..... the last week of my holiday is almost over before my next break in july. had a fantastic time - sky scraper, central park, tiffany and jimmy choo filled pictures to follow....

So I arrived in a rather cold New York on Saturday afternoon, rather tired although managed to sleep a lot on the plane and very overwhelmed by height and just the general big-ness of everything around me. So far I been staying with my sister's husband's (my brother-in-law's) little sister, a connection causing much confusion on introductions but in simple terms a family member and her husband Its been really nice to hang out with them and get to know her better and see her world, she has been living here for 7 years. Tomorrow I am off to maryland to visit so really good friends, i can't wait am only hoping i haven't tried to jam-pack it all in as had planned to get the first train back to nyc wed but trying to see if i can change that, if they can have me longer of course. On Sunday I did visit 'the Met' (the Metropolitan Museum) which was nice apart from managing to offend an American lady (fast work I know!), the repeated "I beg your pardon?!, I beg