Spontaneity

On Thanksgiving day about 15 years ago I invited a young couple in the ward (with a young baby) to join me the next day on a day trip to New York City with Katy and Nicole LaPierre. Kristy said, "We've never done anything spontaneous." My reply was, "Then start tomorrow!" And they did. We had a really fun time wandering around Manhattan and seeing as many sites as we could. We all still talk about that trip.

I recently heard about the Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts exhibit and was thinking it would be great to see but it lasts only six days and it's in New York City (about 4 hours away). And tomorrow would be the only day I could go and I already had three commitments on my calendar. But the exhibit is 650 red/white quilts--and I love red/white quilts! It is the largest quilt exhibit ever in New York City. All the quilts are from the collection of Joanna S. Rose (can you imagine?!?).














This morning my coworker draped a full page ad from the New York Times over my computer screen. I started thinking maybe I could go tomorrow and emailed a few friends with no luck. I would have definitely gone alone; there's a bus from Alewife (the closest subway station to me) to New York City that is $20/each way and I've done a solo day trip to New York City. I emailed my friend "Sister" (we were scheduled to meet up for burgers and lemon fries tomorrow night) and asked if she wanted to take the bus with me and go to the exhibit tomorrow. She wrote back that she didn't do buses and suggested we look into Amtrak. So early tomorrow morning we'll be on the train headed for Penn Station and we're going to see an amazing quilt exhibit! This is more exciting than Christmas!