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We’ve had a good weekend and a pleasant Monday. Nolan, a high schooler who goes to our church in Pasadena, is in Edinburgh with the drama group from his high school, so on Saturday we joined in the local festivities by going to see his show. It was very good and we had a fun time. Afterwards we met up with Nolan and were planning on catching a quick bite to eat and then perhaps going to see another show. Apparently we underestimated the need to plan ahead. We stopped into a couple restaurants, all of which said that they wouldn’t have a table until about 10pm (it was about 6:15 at the time). We finally just got a baked potato (the only form of ‘fast food’ in Scotland) and then decided on a show to see. We walked to the venue and got there in time to be told that it was sold out. Bummer. It was supposed to be a dark comedy written by Canadians. I don’t know why, but a dark Canadian comedy sounds really funny to me. Canadians are really funny to me. Oh well, I may never know now. We walked with Nolan back to where he is staying and then back to our flat and flopped into bed, tired with our full day of walking.

Sunday we went to church in the morning, which was excellent. David is preaching through Ecclesiastes, which I think is an excellent book that has a lot to say to the post-modern mind. After church we went to the book festival. Ash picked up a couple pamphlets for her research, and as I was standing in line she handed me a book of black and white photography of Scottish landscapes that was cheap, or so we thought. There was a sign by the book that said it was ?7.00. It turns out it was ?7.00 to hear the author speak; the book actually cost ?20.00! Oh well, now we have a cool book that we wouldn’t have bought had we known what it really cost.

Since we were already feeling like suckers, we decided to go leave some more of our money with Starbucks. Then we met Nolan in time to go to the evening service at church. Church was good for the most part, and then we got Nolan a ride back to his place from someone he didn’t know, which I’m sure was interesting for both parties.

Our Monday was spent studying. Ash made a quick trip to the library; I didn’t leave the flat all day. It gets cold when you don’t move around too much, and our heater is making some strange noises again. Anyway, we both got a bit of work done and we able to read together a little bit too.

Tomorrow I’m going to meet with David, our pastor, about a variety of things. I have another chapter of my Christian Ed. project to show him, and I have the sneaking suspicion that he is going to try to get me to do the Children’s Address this Sunday. I’m not a big fan of the Children’s Address, and I can’t imagine that doing a Children’s Address on Ecclesiastes is going to be much fun. But I’m not gonna take this lying down. I am coming armed with backup from my man James Boice. I’m also trying to convince David that we need to institute some changes (at least) in our evening service. He agrees but has run into problems with implementing sweeping changes in the past so he’s a bit hesitant. So to that end I’m bringing along back up from The Man. It’s always fun to hang out with David, plus he always has some delightful Scottish cuisine for us for lunch. I hope he goes with Indian food tomorrow.

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