Blessed beyond measure

Crossover 2006 - 2007: Happening WeeksSS

I have not been very active writing my blog… I think I must have been pretty free the time I started this blog. Another reason for this blog is to update family and friends how I am doing.

This past month has so many happenings. And here is the summary of the activities over each weekend:

Christmas weekend:
We had a white Christmas in Denver, Colorado. It is my first white Christmas. It is SUPER COLD but it was fun. It was a beautiful sight to see all trees and cars covered in snow. The town was white. There was a snow storm just the few days before we went into Denver.

All flights were cancelled and runways were closed. Denver airport was flooded with people. The flight before ours was cancelled. And miraculously we boarded our flight to Denver with neither missing luggage nor major delays. And the even amazing thing was: the day we came back, we missed the snow blizzard by tiny wheeny bit. And there was no missing luggage and no major delays too! We took the last runway out of Denver and probably one of the last flights out of Denver before the snow blizzard hit. Everything is under God’s control. Praise the Lord!

I learnt how to ski at Loveland Ski. My hands and feet were freezing cold most of the time. Skiing is fun but all I can handle is only bunny slopes. No complaints at all. =) Yiren was having so much fun that he kept taking the lift chair up with minimal breaks in between.

New Year weekend:
New Year was at New Orleans. We actually had planned to move to Timothy’s house that weekend as my old lease was up and move to the new apartment from Timothy’s house when we got our keys for the new apartment. In the end, we decided to extend the lease and rather moved one time than having to move twice. Moving is not easy and luckily, I have my Dearie who really did a lot in our move to the new apartment.

New Orleans is fun. Bourbon Street is wild. Beads were strewn all over the streets. And it wasn’t even the real Mardi Gras, it was only a New Year Eve party. The swamp tour is nice where we get to see alligators. And it is really hard to imagine how great the impact Hurricane Katrina was on New Orleans when we saw the damage. It must have been really bad. No one can imagine that until you come to New Orleans to see for yourself. It is scary.

Honestly, I think the main reason that we are having fun is mainly because of the company we have. This group of us can never fail to entertain ourselves and make even normal things fun. Seriously.

When we were driving back from New Orleans to Houston (5.5hr drive), Yiren’s car battery died twice and it was a testing time as we tried to revive his battery with Tim’s batt but somehow doesn’t work. We waited for the AAA guy to come and finally managed to jump start the car. We did not dare turn off the engine all the way to Houston even during breaks for fear that it might died on us again. We finally got home at 930pm at night. The car died as soon as the engine was off. The amazing thing was the car’s alarm sounded throughout the whole night without us realizing is Yiren’s car (actually the thought did cross my mind but I was too chicken and lazy to go and check it out). The next morning Yiren tried to start the car and the engine started working again!!!! What a miracle!

3rd Weekend: The BIG Move
Yiren has to work on Saturday but he has already moved quite a lot of things on Friday. So I packed up the rest of the things and moved the smaller items into his car (He drove my car to work). Our dear good neighbours/friends/buddies/ came over to help move the big items into the U-haul car and drove the U-haul back to our NEW home. It took us less time than we have thought. By night, we have everything shifted to our new apartment.

4th Week and 5th Week:
I was out at Dallas for work. It was a good break and the work is pretty relaxed. The only thing was no internet access at client place and the senior in charge was a miser. The hotel is not that great. But it was a good trip nevertheless and a good break before my peak period begins…

All in all we have such an overwhelming crossover from 2006 to 2007. Whatever happened evidenced that God was with us, is with us and will be with us whatever happens.

Blessed am I.

New Year resolution: To grow in Christ and have a closer and stronger relationship with God. Trusting in Him whatever happens.

posted by Ying @ 12:41:00 AM