A pleasant Sunday

16th October, 2011

Today I don't have much new to report. I got up very early for me nowadays at 7.30am to catch the 8am bus to St. Paul (see a photo of St. Paul above). I wanted to attend the "Sung Mass" at 9.15am in St. Louis King of France Church (or the little French church). I was happy to see the church because the last two times I went there, the door to the main church was closed. The church still has a French flag flying outside it. The "Sung Mass" was a little misleading as it meant that there was singing at the Mass. I was expecting the entire Mass to be chanted by the Priest.

After Mass, I went to Dunn Bros. cafe and had a pumpkin muffin for breakfast. Around this time of year, they put pumpkin in everything. I then took the bus back home. I watched the Rome Derby on ESPN3 online. This is a great website that has pretty much any football game in the major leagues live for you. Lazio won their first Rome derby in a number of years, which was nice.

After dinner, I went for an evening stroll. I wanted to follow the river that I followed yesterday (but follow it upstream). It was more difficult as there was no designated path alongside it. That meant though that I discovered a new place trying to find the river. There is a little park basically over the highway, which feels pretty strange. After walking for a little while, I realised that I left the pot of stew simmering. It would probably be fine but thought I should head back just in case.

It was good that I went back as Christian was having some friends over at the house to watch the Minnesota Vikings football (American) game. It was nice to meet them and watch the game. We had a few beers (I contributed some Murphy's) and watch Minnesota get destroyed by the Chicago Bears.