08-25-2006, 02:01 PM
Even without the beach insha Allah you will find a place just as dear to your heart in time insha Allah.
Once we prayed in a large group at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. A very famous place. And once the kids and I were stuck in the middle of noplace on Wisconsin's cold winter and had to pray in our car, and to make the wudu we used the snow. That was very cold but it reminded me about the dua that says, "O Allah wash me of my sins as white cloth is cleansed with water, ice, and snow."
Thats a special memory. :)