Bacon and Banana Pizza, Hello Kitty MIA and Mass

Saturday, January 31, 2008

We got up fairly early today. We went to the beach and swam for awhile. We went to lunch at a place called Leanardo’s in the boardwalk (a shopping center). I had bacon and banana pizza and it was really good. Everyone who sampled it thought it was good too J so next time I make a pizza from Papa Murphy’s don’t be surprised if it’s bacon and banana! Yum!
They play mostly American Music here. I have heard Taylor Swift more then once while we were out shopping!
After lunch we shopped for quite a while and walked back. We walk so much here. I love it! And it’s so warm out and right by the beach – it’s incredible. We took showers and got ready for church, which is less then 5 minutes away from Langerry (our flats).
Mass was pretty typical. A smaller church, not very crowded, mostly older white people. They welcomed a new parish priest this weekend and at the end of mass right before the final blessing he paused and said: “I believe we have some students here studying from America. Where are you? Can you raise your hands?” So we did and we had a short conversation with him explaining we were attending Nelson Mandela University and that their would likely be more of us next week since we had arrived a few days early. He then said a petition for President Obama since there had not been one prior. After mass everyone warmly welcomed us and wanted to know what part of the US we were from.
After mass I remembered I had left my Hello Kitty cup at Leonardos. Melissa agreed to walk back with me. It was quite walk and it was starting to get dark. We got there and asked about it and thank goodness they had it because we were booking it back to get back before it got really dark and before 8 pm. I got huge scrapes on the back of my heel and blood on my new white flats, but it was worth it to rescue Hello Kitty. J
We had dinner in the flats and then went out to Toby Joes. It was a lot of fun.