This is D to the C post 6, and it's all about the Six Degrees (or less) of Separation made popular by the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game, amongst other things.
For those of you who may be confused... It's the concept that we really do live in a small world, and if I'm connected by one degree to each person I know and two degrees away from each person who is known by one of the people I know, then I'm at most six steps away from any other person on Earth.
Why do I link that to our DC trip? This turned out to be a real Six Degrees of DC trip.
Well, we embarked on this trip with the intention to spend time with our friend, Nate. YEA!
(yikes. Pregnant picture)We thoroughly enjoyed spending time with Nate and his great parents. Thanks for the hospitality, Mr. and Mrs. S! Nate celebrates a birthday this Monday: Happy Birthday!!
My dad serves on the board of both a Farm-related bank and also on the National Cotton Council, and it just so happened that he was scheduled to have a semi-annual meeting in DC on our first couple of days there. He invited us and Nate to join him for dinner at a scrumptious and very cool 1930s style restaurant that evening.
Then, we found out that a friend from college (who serves in a covert branch of our military) is currently stationed there with his family, so we got the awesome opportunity to catch up with him in the Ice Cream parlor of the Museum of Natural History. It was great to see you Mark!
We ate lunch at a great little cafe one day, and because it was tiny (not because we were altogether nosey) we overheard some guys talking "church planting". Our ears perked up as we realized they were believers and actually on staff of a church we would be attending that evening. (...and I really enjoyed the plantains from the cafe... couldn't pass up mentioning that.)
We visited that neat church that Wednesday and chatted with some great guys whom we'd never met before: one knows a friend of ours who attends Southern Seminary, another went to our University, and a third lived in Springfield, MO about the same time we did.
Thursday of our trip, we scored some Gallery Passes to the Senate from one of our state's Senators. We went that morning (NOTHING was going on), and then again that evening in hopes of catching some Senate fireworks. The evening didn't disappoint, as we saw Senator Lieberman, and witnessed some incessant slick-talk from Sens. Dodd (CT) and Reid (NV) get interrupted parliamentarily by Senator McCain. Then, to top it all off, three cowboys (in hats) came into the gallery to observe, and would you believe that one of them was a guy who taught small group Sunday BibleStudy for us when we did College Ministry in Springfield? Jason was there as a representative for the Missouri Cattlemen's Association at a conference that just happened to be there that week. We hadn't talked to him in a couple of years, and ran into him in the Senate Gallery!?!
It truly was a small world on our trip!
We ate lunch at a great little cafe one day, and because it was tiny (not because we were altogether nosey) we overheard some guys talking "church planting". Our ears perked up as we realized they were believers and actually on staff of a church we would be attending that evening. (...and I really enjoyed the plantains from the cafe... couldn't pass up mentioning that.)
We visited that neat church that Wednesday and chatted with some great guys whom we'd never met before: one knows a friend of ours who attends Southern Seminary, another went to our University, and a third lived in Springfield, MO about the same time we did.
Thursday of our trip, we scored some Gallery Passes to the Senate from one of our state's Senators. We went that morning (NOTHING was going on), and then again that evening in hopes of catching some Senate fireworks. The evening didn't disappoint, as we saw Senator Lieberman, and witnessed some incessant slick-talk from Sens. Dodd (CT) and Reid (NV) get interrupted parliamentarily by Senator McCain. Then, to top it all off, three cowboys (in hats) came into the gallery to observe, and would you believe that one of them was a guy who taught small group Sunday BibleStudy for us when we did College Ministry in Springfield? Jason was there as a representative for the Missouri Cattlemen's Association at a conference that just happened to be there that week. We hadn't talked to him in a couple of years, and ran into him in the Senate Gallery!?!
It truly was a small world on our trip!
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