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Come & See Weekend / Mar 6, 12:36 PM
Well, the family came. It had been iffy earlier in the week and but they ended up deciding to come even though there was no guarantee about how the weather would be today and tomorrow for them to get home. Mom decided to step out and take the chance though. They decided it was worth it to see me. :) I feel love.
They (My mom, Erica age 14, Virginia age 13, Jonathan age 9, Stephanie age 8, and my fiancé Abhi age 20 :)) drove up to our apartment late on Friday night and rang our bell. The girls (my roommates) all ran to the door to let my family in before I could get there and then the girls all screamed. :) I’m surprised they didn’t scare my family away. The girls gave everyone hugs and said hi and were so excited to finally be meeting my family who they had heard so much about.
On Saturday we got our house grocery shopping and laundry done and it was such a blessing to have a car to use to get everywhere since my family had driven! Wow, what a luxury to have a vehicle when you are so used to public transit (and sometimes waiting 30-45 minutes for a bus!) Later in the day my family and I went to a Black History Month Celebration that was being held in the neighborhood. Unfortunately we just missed the program they had at the celebration, but we met a lady who recognized me and we found out that we both go to Greater Galilee Church so that was cool. Then we headed to Garfield Park Conservatory to see the greenery, which was quite fun – I had never really been there before and it’s right near the neighborhood too. For dinner we drove up to Devon Avenue, an Indian and Pakistani community.
On Sunday my roommates and my family, we all walked to Greater Galilee for church – we could’ve driven but I wanted my family to experience to real deal, which is the 5 of us girls walking the few blocks to church each Sunday morning and we were blessed that it was relatively “warm” that morning too (probably about 35 degrees!). Church was good… Jonathan and Abhi sat on either side of me and Stephanie sat on my lap throughout the 2.5 hour service! :) My family stood when church recognized the visitors and people were (of course) so welcoming to my family… gave hugs and said hey and were so glad that my family was there too. :) One lady who I’ve started to get to know from church was so excited to meet Abhi especially and was like “this is your fiance?!!” and gave him 3 hugs. :)
After church our neighbor Ms. Dottie came over and Abhi cooked some Indian food and Ashley cooked bean chili and we ate and enjoyed one another’s company. After lunch/dinner the family and I went downtown to go up in the Sears Tower (we decided to splurge on it… the kids have never been in airplanes and I thought it would be cool to see the whole view of the city).
Monday it looked like my family was going to have to be leaving (they weren’t going to leave until early Tuesday morning) because of snow headed our way, so we didn’t get to go downtown to the Field Museum or the Aquarium, but they stuck around a few hours and got to see the Fitness Center (one of the places I work), and we got to go to the thrift store :) and we had Lou Malnati’s pizza here in North Lawndale for lunch. It was so good… it was (obviously) hard for me when they had to leave, but I’m looking forward to seeing them during my spring break in the middle of March, and their visit helped give me some energy to get me through a few more weeks! Praise God that I got to see them!!!
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I am glad seeing your family went well, I hope your mission year experience is awesome for you. Take care!
By april / Mar 8, 05:42 PM / #
HEY Andrea!!! I love the run-down of the family weekend with pictures!!! You’re so tech-savvy!
For all those wondering what it was like for us roommates to have nearly the entire Davis clan and the famous ABHI visiting, it was WONDERFUL! What an amazing family they are! It was so neat to meet the people who’ve most influenced who Andrea and to see them interacting with each other, after we’d heard so much (good AND bad….just kidding ;) about each of them and their home life. I’m here to say, they are a special family, and Abhi is a VERY special fiance :) and we’re so glad they’ve let Andrea out on loan to us for the whole year! :) And that they took the long trip to the Windy City!! Come again pleeeeeease!
By Ashley / Mar 11, 01:39 PM / #