Adventures in a new town

I love a new adventure, and a new experience. Today was chalked full of them.

The day started off with a first time visit to a new church which was awesome! I was raised in a church with mennonite roots, though its very progressive for having such conservative roots. We were always slightly turned off by pentacostal churches by how forward they were, how expressive they were and how long worship lasted. Well, as I move away and start to establish life for myself I'm learning the denomination I go to is entirely what fits for me. I went to a pentacostal church today and loved it. I love to sing and dance and worship God. It was a great time. We love when small children dance along yet we are far too stuck in our little box of conservative worship. So I loved it.

Then I went to market with my roomate. I rode the bus for the first time. Walked around downtown for the first time. Or maybe it was uptown? How do you even know? It's all relational. I'm not used to the mulitiplicity of the city, for example, I asked the bus driver, "does this bus go to market?" and he said "which one?" wait, there's more than one?!?! Anyway. We got off at the sketchy stop with all the interesting people, then went to market and I bought local fresh fruit, yum.

As I was walking along eating it a homeless lady crossing the street says to me, "You look so cool, the way you put that in your mouth". Her delivery was entirely genuine. It was just way too odd. Also I went to the most awesome used bookstore EVER. I just love the smell of them. It had the coolest chair, and a giant poster of ALF, plus many amazing amazing books. Yup. In love. Who knew this city had so much to offer?