Our drive to Napa was long... Jeff had to work on Training Center homework so I put the music on and started on the open road. After getting through the traffic, the scenery consisted mostly of open fields, after several hours of open fields I couldn't help but imagine myself running through them. When there are hours of driving ahead, I mostly think. My brain goes a million miles an hour. All I could think about was how excited I was to be free to do whatever we wanted for a couple of days. Then I started to see myself running free through those ugly fields on the side of the 5 freeway and suddenly they became these beautiful fields full of fun. Freedom is such an amazing word. Because in this life we feel that bondage to sin that reigns in our bodies, freedom isn't completely free. Like Paul says in Romans 7:18-25, "For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin." Those fields were a great reminder that one day I will run and be completely free from this body of sin when I am with my Savior one day. The things I struggle with will no longer hold to me like they do now.
Finally after the long drive we arrived at our hotel. The next day we decided to drive to San Francisco with our bikes and ride across the Golden Gate bridge. It was so much fun! We rode our bikes all around the bay, stopping in Fisherman's Warf to grab some fresh clam chowder and Ghirardelli Square for some chocolate! It was definitely an exciting and adventurous day! Sunday we followed the Napa Valley Vine Trail bike path through different parts of the valley... a 16 mile ride! I think that is my record so far! It was beautiful! This was probably our most adventurous anniversary weekend yet and I loved every minute of it!
