Blurry and Beautiful

Starting with yesterday, it was such a good day. I got up and went to church. Poor Leah was going to go with me, but she had been throwing up all night. Stomach flu perhaps as we spent all Saturday night walking around beautiful Nantes and buying take out Chinese food. ..or perhaps French Chinese don't favor Americans either? Something to contemplate. Anyways, church. I rode the tram to Commerce and then discovered the next tram I needed wouldn't be arriving for another half hour. Thus, I had to walk the rest of the way. It was long but wonderful. Good time to have right before church. I met my friends Kevin and Maria (Irish) and we walked to Notre Dame de Nantes. It was breathtaking. It consisted of high stone walls, large archways and intricate paintings on the ceiling. A huge dome filled with stained glass depictions, paintings and stone carvings drew your eye up when you entered the sanctuary. It was absolutely freezing, however, as heating a place like that would have required the church's income to triple. Nevertheless, it was wonderful to be in a place with other believers. It may sound small, but simply knowing the people around me know and love our Creator was peaceful and refreshing. Granted, the majority of them were over 50, but I will definitely take whatever I am handed. One of my favorite parts was the organ and choir in the back of the sanctuary in a loft. They were the most beautiful sounding choir and I liked it because it didn't feel like a concert.  I read along with them when they read from the Bible in my own English version (I can only hope it was the right passage) and attempted to sing along, though I made up most of the words I was saying. So while I didn't really know what was going on due to the fact I'm not Catholic or French, I still loved going and grew to appreciate the priest's well groomed mustache.

Now for another important topic..Green Bay Packers! I spent foreverrrr trying to find out how to watch the game online live. After a while of fruitless searching, my parents took pity on me and skyped me. Thus, I watched the game on a chair in my parents living room from my dad's laptop. Yay parents! What a good game and I'm so glad I got to watch it, blurry and all. I think I will start researching potential, nonsketchy sports bars. Otherwise, me myself and potentially Leah will be watching it from the comforts of my room. Like I said, I'll take what I can get. For instance, I really had to use the bathroom today after my final (which went well considering I opted out of studying for it as a very important football game was on). So I went in the direction I was pointed for the bathroom. I will spare you the details, but at one point I remember thinking, "That doesn't sound like a female's voice..." Shoooooot. The guy's bathrooms here look remarkably similar to the girls, that's all I'm gonna say. Other than that, I went for a run today which felt amazing, and now I think I will go stealthily down to the kitchen and borrow a tangerine to tide me over until dinner. If I was going to guess what we were eating based on the past three dinners, I'd say we're going to have..pasta.