New Years in Atlanta

This New Years we had the privilege to drive to Atlanta and celebrate New Year with my Sister and family and my brother. We are part of a Catholic Youth Movement called Jesus Youth.  We were a part of it as Youth and we still continue as families.  Jesus Youth was having a conference at Atlanta for all the JYs.  We were going to attend the conference but decided to leave few days early before the conference and have a small vacation with my sister and family and my brother in Atlanta.  It was a lot of fun just being with everyone and the children got to play together.

We went to the Georgia Aquarium.  The kids loved it.  It was really amazing.  I have only been to another aquarium before and compared to that this was huge and beautiful.  It spent almost 8 hours there.  After the aquarium we got back to the hotel and everyone went for a swim.  It was a blast.  My sister has 3 kids and George always looks forward to meet them and play with them.  Since they live in Michigan we don't always get to see each other very often.

The kids had a blast

George with my sister

On New Years Eve we were able to spent some time in prayer and singing thanking Lord for the countless blessings he showered on us in the year of 2013.  We stayed awake till midnight and wished everyone Happy New Year before we went to bed.

The next day was time to go to the conference which was just  an hour drive from the hotel.  The next 4 days we spent at the conference.  It was a great time of fellowship, prayer, mass, adoration and sessions with another 600 people.  We left Atlanta on January 5th and on our way we hit the big snow storm near Indiana and the weather was so bad that they shut down the highway to Chicago.  We had to stay the night there at a DaysInn.  We had a bunch of other travelers with us from the conference.  It was great to have another 40 people with us especially during such bad weather.  The beauty of having wonderful family and friends.  The next day by noon we found out the high way was reopened.  Even though the ride was pretty tough we all made it back home safe and sound by night time.  A very adventurous trip!!

It was 58 degrees in Atlanta when we started our journey back to Chicago

Snow Storm

Chicago weather

My brother 

Thank you Jesus for keeping us all safe and sound and bringing all of us back home through a snow storm.  I wonder what God has in store for us this year.