Hannah's Visit!

This past weekend was especially wonderful. My wonderful sister, Hannah, came to Pittsburgh to visit Friday to Saturday. She's a junior at Mount Vernon Nazarene University studying early childhood development. And she loves it there! Which makes me really happy for her. It's also really cool because, unlike most of us who go back and forth between what we want to do with our lives, she has always wanted to be an elementary school teacher...ever since I can remember.

On Friday night we enjoyed an authentic Indian meal at a restaurant just a few blocks from our house in the Garfield neighborhood. It was such good food! And we got to talk a lot about each other's lives in terms of where we are with relationships and what we want to do in the years to come. Hannah shared about her desire to teach overseas for a period of time. Awesome! I'm excited to see how that works out for her.

Saturday morning we took the bus downtown to a place called the Strip District which a really cool marketplace full of lots of neat shops and sidewalk vendors. We enjoyed a couple hours down there before taking the bus back to our house.

Although our time together was short, it was great to spend time with Hannah, let alone see her! She left for college in mid August so it's been almost two months since we last saw each other! And it's been almost two months since I've seen the rest of my family. I miss them! But I'll be visiting them in about two weeks so I'm looking forward to that! Oh, and they get to meet my wonderful girlfriend, Anna (some of them for the first time!), so it's going to be extra fun. Can't wait!

I guess I just want to say that I'm proud of Hannah for the things she's doing at school and for the direction she's going with her life. I hope things work out for her and that she's happy no matter what she does or where she ends up. Thanks for the visit, sis :)