Man is it hot! we hit 106 here the other day! I'm told that next month it will be even hotter with temps in excess of 110 everyday. Wahoo, I'm looking forward to that.
Well, here is my weekend for you. Before I get to that I guess I should introduce the group I have been hanging out with. Ron and Tenique are from Baltimore and both are Guard, and Rolando is originally from Panama but now resides in Florida when he isn't here. I met Rolando the first day I got here, we actually arrived on the same day, and he has become a good friend in a few short days. He is really going through a tough time being away from his family. He is stationed here for 15 months and his son was doing so good in school back in Florida that he and his wife didn't want to take him out of school there to let him start school here. He just rented a house in a little village not far from here and he moves in Wednesday. He has a pool and he has already invited the group over for a pool party. OK, on to my weekend:
Friday night we went to Morón de La Frontera and walked around for a few hours. When we got there everything was closed up. We hiked up to the old castle ruins and by the time we walked down the 1/2 mile or so, things were starting to open and people were starting to stir from siesta time. We stopped and got a bottle of water and walked around town some more. It's funny how the towns just look deserted during the day but by night they get a complete makeover and the town comes alive. It's hard to get used to seeing families out for dinner at 10:00 at night. When we are just getting our kids in bed, they are taking their kids out to dinner. It isn't unusual for them to stay out until the wee hours of the early morning!
On with the weekend, several of us went to the beach this weekend in Rota Spain. Now, Rota is supposed to be a hour and a half drive but we got lost several times and it took us 3 hours...Uugh! Thankfully our group included Rolando and although he is from Panama he can understand the Andalucian Spanish dialect enough to get directions. So we finally made it to Rota and went to Rota Naval Air Station to go to the Base Exchange to look around and grab anything that we might have needed. There is only a small mini mart on base so if you need something they don't have you either have to get someone to pick it up for you when they go to Rota or wait until you can make it there yourself. We didn't get back until midnight on Saturday night so Sunday was a day for resting.
I did go to Chapel Sunday and it was pretty cool. It was a contemporary worship service and Chaplin Croft gave a good message. We had some visitors from Malaga Media Center which is really a missionary run organization. We met the couple that run it and their main mission is to minister to the muslims in North Africa. They read several letters from people in Africa that had many questions about Christianity. Even a few from people who said they had been devout muslims for many years were looking to Christianity for the answers. Please pray for these people that run the missionary.
This week is Vacation Bible School at the Chapel. I think I'm going to help out with it a couple of nights, it should be fun to be around the kids, my only fear is that it will make me miss my own kids even more than I already do.
Tomorrow night I have been invited to dinner with the Commander, I'll let you know how it goes!
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