This weekend I got invited to accompany my sister Kate and my mom to New York to spend some quality time with my sister Julie and, oh yeah, see the Dead Sea Scrolls. Yippee! I worked like a mad-woman until 2 on Thursday when I jumped in the car. Then I had about four hours of homework to do on the way down. Once I got to Julie’s house at 10:45, I had to search for a citation and load it to my school website. Of course, I couldn’t connect to the internet where I was because my computer didn’t like their router. Julie lent me her laptop. I rapidly got my homework done and submitted it a half an hour before the deadline. Yes, I did.
School was pretty much just a back drop after that and the girl weekend took over. I inflated my air mattress in my usual spot and desperately searched for shoes at the Palisades Mall. See, a fracture-where my fracture is-makes certain shoes (all of mine) hard to get on my foot. With hours of walking in the city ahead of me I figured I could make out with my flats. And then the snow came. At 8:30 at night, Kate got it into her head that we should do round 2 of shoe shopping so we hit Target and Payless and struck out. I managed my boots quite well in snowy NY City and my fracture is only slightly more swollen. Well worth it for what I got to see!
We almost didn’t make it to the city. The snow was so bad and several cars were off the road. Julie had studded snow tires and prayerfully, we made it into the city just as the snow stopped. From there, we went straight to the Discovery Museum where the scrolls were hosted in a dynamic presentation. All those years of studying Scripture and the half a year at Bible college I used to connect the dots the secular museum left out. The scrolls were so beautiful, so intricately written.
There were some elements of a video presentation they had that just made my eyes widen. The original team working on the scrolls had used Scotch Tape to put the many pieces together and had smoked while doing it. There were some facts that made me shiver too. Well worth the $30 we paid. After that, we got a great burger at a busy place and shopped around Times Square. It was good to be with family!
