Birthday numbers

I'm just popping in to write about the days surrounding turning twenty-seven. My littlest baby cousin was born a day before my birthday. I took photos of seventeen-day-old baby Hannah with her parents aka my childhood friend since I was nine. I read at least twenty-six books in my twenty-sixth year. I have been living in Kuching for a full year. I learned more about how to communicate with more than thirty-five different students at work. I still feel inadequate and sorrowful often but with a little bit more resilience built in through brokenness, God's grace, and the encouragement of those who love me constantly and steadfastly. I am still working towards my goal of reading a-hundred-fifty books. I just started another three-hundred-sixty-five photo project to record each day of my twenty-seven. I am finite, but God is infinite. Lord, I will trust in You.

Back in the days: Lost in NYC

We were not actually lost but the buildings are humongous compared to us as we wandered around New York City on foot by ourselves. I don't think we had smart phones then so we depended on Google map print-outs as our rough guide and made our way through the city.

Deli, pizza, coffee, & flowers

Embassies of different countries, souvenir shops, yellow taxis, and hot dog stands at street corners were in abundance too.

 ...and we reached the Rockefeller Centre.

Back in the days: NYC Brooklyn

We went on a short family trip to the East Coast in May 2011 as it was our last year in the US and we had never been to New York city. 

Statue of Liberty

 And there it is, Brooklyn Bridge!

It took us awhile before we could find the ramp to walk up to the bridge.

But it was well worth the effort because the view from Brooklyn Bridge is quite iconic