memorial day picnic

on memorial day we had a picnic w/our church crowd. we went to shepherd lake in ringwood state park. some of our guys went early at 7:30am to reserve tables & grills. at around 11am they stopped letting people in because the parking lot was full. our group really stepped up in bringing good food. we had kalbi, kimchi, sangchu, & we even had high-quality naeng-myun (pre-packaged & individually wrapped by john yum).

how the other half lives...

last night kenny's boss gave him some of his season tickets to the mets game. so instead of going to small group, we went to the game. the new stadium is very nice. & i got to see chan-ho park pitch against the mets. our vip tickets were 15 rows behind home plate. i never had such nice & expensive seats at a sporting event. the tickets were $175 each. here's what i learned about the vip section. the seats are bigger, softer & more comfortable than regular seating. the fans & stadium staff are more polite. the vip section bathrooms & concession stands are much nicer & less crowded (no lines). & even though kenny forgot to get the vip parking pass, the parking attendants let us park in the vip parking for free after kenny showed them our vip tickets. nice.

house of jon bon jovi

every sunday morning our youth group has their worship in the main sanctuary at 9:30am. during that time i lead a bible study for some of the parents of our youth group students. last week one of our bible study group members invited us over for lunch. what made it so special is that she lives in a house that jon bon jovi used to live in. when i was in eight grade, bon jovi was huge. & i've been a "closet" fan ever since. favorite song being, "wanted dead or alive". so the house is huge & beautiful. jon bon jovi bought it for his parents, & before he got married he lived there w/his parents. he gave his parents the master bedroom & he took one of the smaller bedrooms. i thought it was interesting that a millionaire rockstar lived in w/his parents. the kims (who live there now) are known in the neighborhood as the asian family who moved into the house of bon jovi. they said that they keep hearing stories of how jon bon jovi is a really good person. one example being that he never got divorced.

a friend of mine used to produce music for jamie fox, before jamie fox became such a big celebrity. they used to record their music in the former home of marvin gaye, in order to soak in his "mojo". when my son was playing in the former bedroom of jon bon jovi, i kept thinking that maybe he could soak in some of that "mojo" & become a rockstar too.