Easter monday here where I am.

We had a very nice Easter weekend. Since we don't have a Church in our language to go to here, we just met with some english speaking friends on Friday and had our own little worship time together. We read the story of Christ's journey to the cross and His cruxifiction. We took communion together. It was good to remember.

After our worship time together, we went for supper to a nice restaurant that advertises Starbucks... which would be the first in the city but we realized that it wasn't authentic. The signs were real but the products aren't. Either that or they have the right products but don't know how to make anything properly. (they did have some real starbucks coffee in bags but the frappuchinos that they served us were not the same as the "real" thing.) No really big disappointment. We kind of expected it when we first saw the signs anyway.

On Saturday M's school invited us for supper to a nice restaurant as well that was serving turkey alongside a big buffet of mostly seafood. It was delicious.

We met a couple of teachers who were here on exchange from Scottland. We understood most of what they said. They invited us to sit with them, so we did. It was nice to meet someone from "the old country."

The evening was rounded off by a surprise evening Easter chocolate hunt hidden and hosted by a few of our Canadian friends here. That was a surprise! Very fun.

On Sunday we had friends over for Easter brunch- I whipped up the pancake batter and cracked the eggs while M fried and flipped everything. Some friends brought over some fruit and we had a nice time of it.

We ended up biking over to the park afterwards to toss around a frisbee and play badmitton. It was a gorgeous day in the park. I didn't realize we had such a nice park so nearby. I had walked through there in winter once but it didn't seem so big or so nice.

As a note about our time in the park- people here don't play frisbee... so we drew a bit of a crowd just by throwing it around. That kind of makes me smile because to me, watching people throw a frisbee is about the equivalent of watching golf on TV. ZZZzzzzz. But I guess if you've never seen it before it's a little more thrilling.

We finished the afternoon by coming home and finishing reading the end of Matthew- the resurrection, and spending some time thinking about the wonder and power of Jesus who is Lord over everthing including death. It was a good.

He has risen.

He has risen indeed.