|
|
|
Sunday September 7, 2008
We awoke at 4:30 Pacific Time and went to find some coffee. The Safeway Super Market had a Starbucks inside. We got some coffee and a few things at the Safeway. We went back to the motel and waited for them to open for the Continental Breakfast at 7am. They had orange juice, Danish pastry and coffee.
Ned called and we decided to go to the 11:00 Service at the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church. We showered and got ready. Kathy and Ned arrived at the motel and my cell phone rang. It was my mother-in-law, Phylis. They wanted to go to church also. We picked them up at their hotel. The church had a huge congregation with three services on Sunday and one on Saturday night. They had a large Sunday School and many small groups for Bible Study. It was a beautiful church with a high vaulted ceiling of wood beams and stained glass windows. They had a band with a saxophone, guitar, piano and organ and a large choir. It was a contemporary service more like the Nazarene’s with an alter call that was stronger than in the Baptist Church. The pastor preached an excellent sermon. There were people of all ages in the congregation.
Afterward, we went to the Olive Garden for lunch. I had beef and chicken on a skewer with veggies.
Kathy and Ned picked us up for the Wedding at 3:45. We drove up the winding, switchback mountain road that we had driven on yesterday. The wedding was in the Mountain View Inn. We met the groom and his family, the Tellez’s. Mr. Tellez reminded me of Caesar Romero. He was very nice and very welcoming to all of us.
It was an outdoor wedding and the weather cooled down very quickly after the sun went down over the mountain. Kathy, Ned, Don and I sat at a table with the groom, Andres’s cousins and aunt. They are from Texas. There were a lot of outdoor heaters on the deck around the tables except for the one we were sitting at. I wore my velvet blazer but I was cold. I wrapped the long tablecloth around my legs. I should have brought my long wool skirt. We left the reception after the cake was served around 9:30. The mountain road was very dark. Ned’s Tom-Tom got confused on the switchbacks. It kept telling us to turn around and go the other way.
I read a little when we got back but dropped my book as I fell asleep.