The End of the Day

Saturday July 26, continued.

Do you really need to ride the boat? We saw mostly the same sights that we saw on the bus. If not the same, then they might as well have been. Government buildings, churches, someone famous lived there, etc. The boat was supposed to leave at...say 6:20, and we were told there were no bathroom facilities in the waiting area, and would be none on the boat. It was 6 pm. Two of our women went off to find public facilities, and were not back when the boat left the dock at 6:15. I was sorry that they missed the boat, and unhappy with an owner who says one time, then changes it for another. Also with them for not just waiting it out. Turns out there was a bathroom on the boat. Unfair. But life is unfair. All the time. God never promised to be fair, only just. And I guess I should be thankful for that.

Anyway, we ate from street vendors on the way to the boat, then headed back to the hotel after. We gathered for worship for the first time as a full group, both the youth and counselors from Greater New Jersey and the Drewids. A number of us headed into the train station next door to the hotel to call home (I guess we all had a distrust of how much it would cost to call from the rooms). While there, I was able to track down a candy bar in a vending machine. There were ads for this candy throughout the station, and it looked good. It tasted even better. Here's a little info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Bueno

Extra: Lillian the tour guide for the day recommended Ken Follett's "The Pillars of the Earth". It is an historical novel about the building of a cathedral in the 12th century. She felt it would help us to understand the building of Notre Dame.