Easter in San Diego!

I was a bit saddened this morning to realize we weren't in Oregon and wouldn't hear the wonderful Easter singing at Zion. We have been worshiping with the Bretheren In Christ/Mennonite Church in San Diego. There are usually 25-30 people present. Today there were over fifty. The service was wonderful, but I still miss the Zion singing. One of the highlights of the service was an ugly nondescript cross covered with chicken wire -- Pastor Sara described it as "sort of yuck." The children came with flowers during one of the hymns and filled all of the wires with them. It ended up flower filled and gorgeous -- I only wish I had taken my camera in.

After the service and the generous snacks, we (Forry and I and Joel, one of the long-termers) headed for Petco Field:

The San Diego Padres were playing the third game of their series with the San Francisco Giants. They won 6-1 today making it a clean sweep 3-0. The Giants don't seem to be nearly as formidable without Barry Bonds.

We had great seats about forty rows back behind the dugout on the first base side, but they were in the shade. There was quite a breeze at times and by the 7th inning we were freezing. We finally got smart and moved down into empty seats in the sun for the final two innings...

Petco Field is interesting in that they renovated and incorporated the 1909 Western Metal Supply Co. Building into left field. The team store is on the first floor and luxury boxes are on the upper ones.

We stopped at TGIFs on the way back to camp for baby back ribs. All of our wandering long-termers were back this evening to welcome our new crew. Compared to the last two weeks, it's a small group of all guys with three from Oregon, two from British Columbia and one other Canadian.