The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.
Psalm 103:8
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If you’re short on time, I’d say just go ahead and skip this one. If you can’t get to sleep and need a little help, read on.
Bruce got up early and rode the cycle over to see his friends, Matt & Mike, start the swimming portion of their IRONMAN. He waited for them to transition to the bike part, took some pictures and then came home. I did not get up early. I went for a walk on the streets around our hotel. Bruce got home just as I was finishing. He ran across the street and got us breakfast at Whataburger while I took a quick shower.
Then we went to CityPoint Church which conveniently meets in our hotel. Which is totally appropriate because they are a very new, young, hip church. Today they added about 20 new members who were actually the first members of the church. Now that is new! It was a great sermon about the grace of God. His big idea was: God’s grace is not God’s one time offer, it’s His life-time guarantee. Amen and pass the potatoes! I am SO thankful that God gives us grace and forgiveness again and again and again!
After church Bruce went back to see the finish of the IRONMAN and I did absolutely nothing. I laid in bed and checked facebook and instagram and tried to figure out a good route for us to take home a week from Tuesday. I thought about all kinds of productive things I could or should be doing. I think I should get credit for at least thinking about them. See it really wasn’t my fault that I was a lazy couch potato my iwatch died AND my phone was dangerously close to dying, so I couldn’t possibly function without them. They finished charging about the time that Bruce got back, so we met down at the pool and hung out down there for a while. We talked to a nice man from Santa Cruz, CA. After chatting for about 45 minutes he had to go because his family does a group FaceTime every Sunday night at 5:00. What a great idea. That would be so cool! Hint, hint family.
Also Bruce had a few concerns about Harvey’s freezer working correctly, so he plugged Harvey in to the hotel. They conveniently had an outside outlet right by where I had parked Harvey.
Since going out to eat would require me to actually get dressed and leave the hotel, we ordered dinner from Oregano’s, an Italian restaurant (not that the name gives it away or anything) recommended to us by my friend, April. It was fantastic. Bruce got their version of spaghetti and meatballs and I got some kind of pasta with spicy tomato cream sauce and chicken. The portions are so big we will be having it again for dinner tomorrow night. Because of course Bruce will be having a pb&j for lunch.
