The Creation Museum!

Friday night, Lauren and I flew out of Seattle at midnight, arriving in Cincinnati, OH at 7 AM (4 AM our time). We again proved why such a flight is called a "red-eye"--please don't look to closely at the pictures to follow! Although the reason for coming to the breadbasket of America is to attend a Piano Pedagogy class (more on that in later posts), we came in early to meet up with some friends and go to the Creation Museum.

We spent every minute we could at the Museum, arriving at opening, and leaving ten minutes before closing. It was such a blessing spending the whole day with precious friends, observing challenging exhibits, and learning lots of new information. We loved every moment of the museum, from the excellent, God-honoring planetarium to the realistic dinosaurs to the amazing depictions of Biblical and historical scenes, to getting to hear Steve Ham (Ken Ham's brother) speak for an hour and a half on the relevancy of Genesis today, to watching an excellent movie presentation with special effects, to randomly meeting an old friend from a music class we attended in 2008 (he lives in Pennsylvania and we in Washington--how could we ever run into each other in Kentucky?).

For lunch, our friends took us out to "Skyline," an authentic Cincinnati restaurant that has perfected chili. They serve it on spaghetti, burritos, hot dogs, wraps, and salads! Yum, yum! After a long day of seeing all we could see, we drove into Cincinnati to take the bus two hours into Indianapolis. Finally, after twenty-four hours of traveling and sight-seeing (with only two hours of sleep), we arrived at the school for our two-week class. We are so grateful that God allowed us to visit the Museum--something we never thought would be possible--and are eagerly diving into our first week of classes.

Please pray for us as we meet new people, learn new things, navigate a new environment, and try to keep up with our mountain of course work!