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friday night - went to "waiting for godot" play by samuel beckett. it was fantastic - thoroughly enjoyed it.

saturday - visited with my aunt and cousin's family in the morning. always good to see them. and then shopping. some background - i developed an allergy to clothes shopping after christmas in san diego. we did SO MUCH shopping at the post-xmas sales that i took a "fast" from clothes shopping - i decided not to go into any clothing stores until easter. what made it tough is that someone gave us a $200 gift card for the gap. so this being after easter we went shopping. i bought a couple of shirts and that's that. i still hav eno burning desire to buy anymore clothes - i think we all have more then we need anyways.

today - SUNRUN! one of my favourite vancouver events. 50000 runners pounding the pavement. this time adam joined me in his stroller - i don't think i will do this particualr race in a stroller again - it is just way too congested - made it quite tough to manouever around.

BEAUTIFUL DAY today - hot and sunny - just great. i had this sinking feeling that our numbers would be down at first@night but it wasn't too bad. i actually was quite pumped after the service. we spent some time in quiet, reflective prayer meditating on a psalm verse by verse. we concluded with a video clip of u2 performing yahweh which went over quite well.

all in all a great weekend - thank you god.

Comments

Anonymous said…
"i don't think i will do this particualr race in a stroller again"

I presume you mean WITH a stroller again. You made my morning with this one. Picturing you IN the stroller with 50,000 others... Nice!

Peace,
Jamie
8:08 AM
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