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Day 342: Idle Time

(For Sunday August 3)

This morning a few of us rose before the sun did and made our way to Central Park.  We hunkered down in a huge line for six hours to score free Shakespeare in the Park tickets.  My Dad, the oldest redhead, my newly married brother and sister-in-love, and I sat in this line and spent idle time chatting about any and everything.  I felt so grateful for this time that we just sat and laughed and talked and planned a future trip and just got to be together.  It was some of the best idle time I have had in a while.  I was so grateful that I volunteered to drag myself out of bed after an exhausting and incredibly fun weekend to sit in a line for 6 hours, which sounds crazy and might be a little bit, to have this idle time with my brother and sister-in-love. It was just another perfect thing about this wedding weekend.

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