Chinese Chips?

On Monday night I went out to dinner with several people from the training session I conducted. It was quite the UN of Abbott. There was someone from:

1. US


2. China


3. Italy


4. Spain


5. England


6. Ireland

We went to an Irish place to eat but it was closed on Mondays. Ended up at a Chinese place in downtown Cootehill, Cavan county, Ireland. The owner was from China so the Chinese guy in our group was able to speak Mandarin to each other and found out they were from neighboring provinces, which are like states to us. Small world. We ordered dinner and with dinner you get rice or chips. For appetizers we had prawn chips, very good, very light, so I thought that was the option, but the Chinese guy ordered chips and it ended up being french fries! In Ireland, chips = fries, but I never thought you could get them in that kind of place. It was odd to see him eating them with chopsticks, but it worked for him.

I taught 1/2 day Tuesday and then started the long trip to Zwolle. 2 hour car ride to Dublin, plane delayed an hour due to snow and high winds in Amsterdam, got on wrong train, found right train quickly, ended up at hotel about 11:00 PM local time, 5:00 PM your time, drank a diet coke and went to bed.

Very nice room, brand new 5 star hotel, slept pretty good. Breakfast was OK, eggs and some type of sausage, but the bread was GREAT! Very fresh, there was 4 different loaves sitting out that you cut a piece off of, I put butter and jam on mine, do not know if that was right or not, but it tasted good.

Went out to meet my cab and became quickly amazed at the number of people riding bicycles, not exaggerating, but number was in the 100's. Pretty amazing, but oddly many people were smoking while they were riding. Had a cheese sandwich for lunch, was told "this is dairy country we like our cheese" by someone who lives here. Nothing to drink at lunch but milk, some had flavors in it. I had orange milk, tasted OK.

Class today went fine, but feet are sore. Writing this while giving them a break, going for walk later before dinner. By myself tonight, tomorrow group taking me on a tour and to dinner.

Caught on on Angela's emails and I think Satan is attacking our church, need to redouble our prayers, specifically to pray for protection for all members. God is powerful and on our side.

Finished the book, really good, not sure if that is what heaven is like, but I really enjoyed reading it. Cannot what to pass on to Angela to read.