This last weekend, the 25th through the 27th, Diana and I took some time to rest, relax, and focus on our marriage at familylife’s Weekend to Remember. It was a great time to get away and enjoy life at the bellevue hilton. When we checked in, we were given a hundred page book which we covered the entire weekend throughout 10 sessions focusing on things like why marriages fail, Christ’s role in the family, and the roles men and women play in the marriage. The weekend was definitely something that I would recommend to anyone that is married, healthy or not. Our speakers spoke in a way that didn’t assume too much about our marriage to make it irrelevant.
Diana and i have been married for 9 months now, and we were one of 5 couples that had been married for less than a year. The couple that won the award for married the shortest had been married for 3 months. What made them really interesting is that the man had a bar code tattooed into the back of his head! It totally made Diana and I use our imaginations and think that maybe he was an escaped experiment or he had the mark of the beast.
By far the most memorable moment was when the fire alarm went off at 11pm on date night and everyone was walking out of their rooms in varying states of dress some in pajama’s, some in bath robes, and Diana and I in our street clothes because we had no idea how long we would have to be outside. Luckily we just hung out in the lobby and read the last battle until the alarms stopped going off and we went back to our room to finish our Monk episode and go to bed.
Lisa Page said,
April 28, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Looks like we were at the same conference! I hope that your marriage was blessed like ours was. (By the way, I noticed the barcode on the back of that man’s head, too!)