Oot and a boot.

When I woke up this morning, I had the urge to just go for a drive with John and get lost. We ended up leaving the house around noon and we did, in fact, get lost. We found a town not too far from us named Nichawaug of which neither of us had ever heard. I do know that we passed through Nichawaug at some point but there were no signs to indicate that we got there. There was a sign that said 'Nichawaug, 7 miles' and very much later a sign pointing the way from which we came that said 'Nichawaug, 3 miles'. John and I re-named it Nichawaugwa because we thought it was funny.

First we drove to the Brookfield Orchard and went inside to look around the store. It was so quiet there today, there were hardly any people there and we spent a good half hour shopping. We bought this tall glass jar that's made of smoky glass and is quite interesting. I don't know what I'll do with it but for now it's sitting on the kitchen counter looking cute. We also got 15 new books (like we need them!) for $3.00! Oh, and 2 watermelon candy sticks.

I had the camera with me so here are some shots for your viewing pleasure:

The road to the orchard:

A view of some of the trees in the orchard:

The orchard store:

Here is a barn I spotted on the way there and I took this picture as John was driving...not bad for a Kodak EasyShare! I thought for sure it would be blurry!

Then we found this cemetery somewhere near Nichawaug and/or Oakham:

Lastly, some pretty flowers that were in the cemetery:

We came home and watched 'Valiant' which was a really cute movie :) I took a nap, watched some old American Idol I had on Tivo since March (yaaay Ace!) and now I'm just hanging out with John. I should clean up a bit because I have my mother and brother coming over for dinner tomorrow night and my brother hasn't seen the new place yet!

We didn't go to church today and I'm not sure if I want to go back to our current church. Everything just seems all wrong there and I don't feel like we're respected, especially John. The Pastor thinks it's funny to insult people and I just don't think that is right. John and I have been talking about visiting other churches, I'm just worrying about running into the same drama elsehwere. Plus, we've made so many friends where we are now and there are people for whom we care deeply but we want to be somewhere we can learn and grow and use the gifts God has given us. It's just not happening at Hillside. No final decision has been made yet, we're just talking at this point...

Lots more picto-blogs to come! I'm going to be taking pictures of everything!