Other than that I had a pretty typical Easter weekend full of family fun and church. My aunt and uncle came down from the Bay Area to pick up my cousin Jeffrey, and my cousin Karen was also in for the weekend from Boston. We did some light hiking and bouldering in Chatsworth park Saturday morning and then took a family trip to Costco where we bought massive amounts of food. After a HUGE lunch at my cousin Eric's new house (cocktail shrimp, sushi, chicken, Chinese chicken salad, papaya and Asian pears, topped off with a Boston cream pie) half the family split off to go house hunting and Eric, his wife Mindy, Paul and I went to Petco to purchase a turtle for their new spacious backyard. Unfortunately Petco was sold out of land turtles so they had to settle for a couple new lamps from Wal-Mart instead.

After that we all met up again in Santa Monica for dinner at the only decent Chinese restaurant in Santa Monica, so that was another huge meal (it was a bad day sodium/sugar-wise for me).

Easter service was really moving, there was some great testimony and beautiful singing followed by a sermon about encountering Jesus. I want to write something more about it but my mind is covered by a Monday morning fog right now.