Sunday

We went to church and heard the pastor's wife preach as part of her lay pastor program. She is a delightful lady and she did a really good job. There were some visiting pastors from India there, but part of their visa states that they cannot preach while in the UK. We talked to someone after the service about that and were told that visas for clergy outside the EU often include that requirement to keep extremists and hate groups from coming in and causing problems.

After service there was a potluck lunch, which included all sorts of food from India (prepared by the guests) and Ghana and other places. I made pecan pie, which is not standard fare around here. One woman came up to tell me that she had never had it before, but really enjoyed it. Actually her exact words were, "It wasn't as sickly sweet as I thought it would be, it was actually quite nice."

After church we drove out west to take Maddie to a friend's house. There are only two-and-a-half days of school left, so she is actually spending the night and going to school with her friend. We told her over and over again that this is not "normal", but I'm sure once school starts up again, she'll use this as a precedent for sleep-overs on school nights!

It was a beautiful day, so Skip and I went in to Holland Park, near Notting Hill. Beautiful park that we hadn't made it to before. We've decided if we get to live in London again some day, we'll live in one of the Holland Park Mews houses. Mews are the places where the horses used to live and in areas of London, they've been converted in to really cool living spaces.

Then we came home and Skip went to work on the computer and I went to work on the house. Movers come a week from Thursday, but we'll be in Majorca for 6 of those days, so there's not much more time to get ready. And I'm not even going to be home much in the next three days. So it should all get pretty interesting!