Peace Be With You

Plan A for today was for Neal to do the last triathalon of the season. That didn't happen because his registration was not completed and instead of paying the insane last minute registration fee, he just didn't race. Plan B was to get up early and go to the beach so he could surf a little. God didn't make the waves this morning so that didn't happen. We went with plan C. Woke up early (before the sun came up), got a little breakfast from Chaco's, and worked on the condo for a couple of hours before church. As we were leaving for church, Neal couldn't find his phone. After looking everywhere for it and calling Chaco's to see if it was there, he thought he may have left it on the side of his truck while we were unloading stuff. Sure enough, we found the phone in the middle of the road. Someone totally ran over it. First stop after church, Apple store for a new phone.

Today was our 4th Sunday to go to Holy Spirit. I was actually a little bummed when I thought we weren't going to be able to go today. The senior priest preached at the contemporary service today. I'm still a little uncomfortable with the whole priest thing and calling them Father. I do like though that in the Episcopal church, the priests are allowed to marry. There's this one part of the service when he blesses us and tells us to share the peace with everyone. So everyone walks around and shakes hands and says something like "Peace be with you." We usually shake a few hands and just hang out in our seat until someone else comes to us, which they always do. Well today we were sitting there and the priest came up to us and said, "Young People! The Lord's peace be with you." We both laughed a little that he called us young people. We talked to him for a little bit after the service. I like it that they're not pressuring us to join the church but make sure we know that we're welcome there. They're letting us do it on our time.

After church, we tried a new Chinese restaurant that we've seen advertised not too far from our house. Bad doesn't even describe what it was. I've never seen egg drop soup that glowed bright green. Some of the meat was also a grayish color. We did not stay long at all. Didn't want to take any chances with the so called Chinese food.

Now I'm off to Leslie's to celebrate her birthday and engagment. Neal is going to finish up a few things at the condo since our tenant will be getting the keys this week.