After 5 days of poor sleep, I’m hopeful that this will be a good night. However, I was not well enough to go to church this morning, but Anya was wonderful and willing to be the guide to take my sister, Elenn. The plan was to go to the “Mexico” restaurant in the harbor area afterwards. Anya misses Chipotle more than anything else, so this was at least a hope of something Mexican. The website review called it “Norwegian Mexican,” but Anya doesn’t like things too spicy hot any way. However, it wasn’t open, so they went to another restaurant. Elenn had a great steak!
I stayed home and rested. I spent some time on the computer researching what tourist attractions are open in the off season. Then if they are open, what days, and then what hours, and finally, what’s the entrance fees. Later, I got dinner ready. After coming from Pakistan, I’m trying to provide some form of pork each day, after a 2-month pork fast. However, tonight it was Persian chicken soup.
Elenn was cleaning out some things from Pakistan and brought some travel games, so after dinner, we played Othello, learning the game along the way. Anya one the first game, and then because there were two boards, she played two consecutive games with Elenn and me. The outcomes are unknown, as we paused the games.
We closed the evening streaming the movie The Hundred-Foot Journey.
We got just to the critical part, and I stopped the movie to get Anya to bed. This is a great movie! It was tough to stop, but it is a school night. We’ll finish tomorrow.
Then I Skyped-in with my church’s mission team. We’re returning to Tanzania in July. This is our third trip, and the majority have been one or two times already, which is a testament to how meaningful our pilgrimages have been, as we share–and deepen–relationships with our hosts. It really is a blessing for us, and because we keep getting asked back, we seem to be a blessing too.