A Working Sunday

Because we are on duty all day today, we went to a Catholic Church yesterday afternoon, for mass. They had a beautiful choir ,with amazing sound! This was just a 10 min. walk from here. We started our day at 6am, & shortly after 8am the fire alarm rang! Fortunately for us, the receptionist was on duty, and knew the procedures to follow, and lots of other volunteers were milling around,waiting for their rides to various churches. A few participants were late for breakfast, and were making their toast in the dining room, which the lobby overlooks, and they burnt the toast!!We who were up in the lobby could smell it, but they couldn't get the bread out of the toaster fast enough, so the smoke alarms went off! Then it started to rain, as folks were wanting to walk to church, and no-one knew where the umbrellas were kept! Soon found them. Part of the roof over the atrium can be opened, to allow for a good air flow, so the resident engineer on his way to church phoned us , asking us to close the roof. When Ralph got to the top floor [6th],the director told him not to bother, as it wasn't much rain, but soon thereafter it was raining harder, so he did close it eventually.
Once we got our regular chores done, it has remained fairly quiet since 3pm. It has been overcast all day, and very windy, hardly anyone using the pool today.
Yesterday a group of us went over to the next town, to an outdoor flea market,they call it a Swap Meet,prices are much better there than in the stores, produce, clothes, jewelery, art, etc. I can't believe the price of groceries here, everything but milk and cheese is pretty well double what we pay at home. Thankfully, we do get most of our meals provided. Ralph will put a few pictures onto this blog, of the Swap Meet, another of some very big cactus growing by the roadside. The flowers growing here are beautiful, too!
It will soon be 10pm, so I had better wrap it up for today, and check on a few last things befor we are done our shift. We pray that God is as good to you wherever you may be, as He is to us here. We are hearing some very interesting things from the men who have just come. God is good----All the time!!