Warren Miller

Preposterous! I've never in my live had church cancelled (except for during Campmeeting, but even then it's just the smaller churches in our Valley that are cancelled; the biggest church always has services). But today all the churches in the vicinity were cancelled. Well, at least all of them except for the McDonald Rd. church and the East Ridge church. Jonathan and I decided to make the arduous journey to the McDonald Rd. church where we saw a church filled with members. Funny that they had all been courageous enough to brave the terrible winter conditions (ie. wet roads and soggy side-of-the-road snow). The church service was good except for the sermon, which I felt was a very American-bias presentation about religious liberties. I made numerous notes on the back of bulletin inserts detailing my opinions about the sermon, but maybe I should keep them private. They weren't all that nice.

After church we went home where all the people who didn't brave the winter roads were making lunch. It was amazing and I ate more than a great white shark. Then I sat around talking to Jonathon and Jonathan and the other people at my apartment. Jonathan decided he wanted to make his dirt cake then so he worked on that. It went well except for the part where he tried to make the middle layer out of non-instant pudding. He was using an electric egg beater, but the mixture of pudding mix and milk wasn't getting firm. He consulted Stephen who told him he had the wrong type of pudding and told him to put it on the stove and bring it to a boil for the concoction to become pudding-like. Jonathan did without reading the directions on the box, therefore the baby pudding burned before it became it reached its adulthood. Jonathan decided to retire from cake-maker until after sundown and we all played a short game of Bible Apples to Apples and then Stephen and JT left so Stephen could get ready for Evensong. A bit later the rest of us went to the church for Evensong. Then Jonathan and I made a Walmart run to get instant pudding. We went back to my apartment where Jonathan successfully finished the dirt cake and put it in the freezer to freeze and then we ate a quick supper before heading back to campus for the Warren Miller film. I always go to watch the Warren Miller movies and this year lived up to my expectations. I have to say that my absolutely favourite part of the film this year was a segment where this guy strapped a Florida alligator to a snowboard and let it crawl-slide its way to the bottom. The last clip in that section showed the beast with its mouth open in a huge alligator smile! It made me laugh. I like things that are out of the ordinary and this Sabbath definitely was one of those kinds of days.