Seeing Friends

This summer, it seems like everyone I know is coming to Minneapolis. On Tuesday, I had dinner with Anna and Kelsey, two of the Project Nexus interns I worked with last summer. It was great to swap stories and to talk about how our lives had changed since leaving Mexico.

I also got to meet up with my friend Rae, who is in Minneapolis on a Wesley foundation mission trip, on Friday. I ate a delicious pizza dinner with her group and got to talk with Rae for a while.

On most of these excursions, I bike, since I don't have a car. On the way back from seeing Rae, I took the pictures posted here. The first is of a cable-stayed bridge, which takes a bike path over a major highway. There was a descriptive poster a little ways off from the bridge that explained what a cable stayed bridge is, including a diagram of how loads are transferred through its different parts. Having recently taken a statics class, I found this very exciting. I took the second picture as I crossed over the Mississippi River on the Franklin Avenue Bridge. I know the picture can do justice to neither the scope of the view nor the colors it contained, but I want to share it with you because as I stood on that bridge it gave me cause to pause and thank God for creating something so beautiful.

Have a great day,