Saturday, March 16th

Erik and I are heading to the London Irish Center today to hear some traditional Irish music in honor of St Patrick's Day. It's in Camden. Ryan will stay in the flat as he didn't get much sleep last night and has a cold. It's a dreary rainy day here, a common day in London, but thankfully we haven't had many days like this. It's been pretty cold, and some snow, but not bad.

Bryn is in Latvia. He is with his friend, Martin, who was an exchange student at Wilson Bryn's sophomore year. He left on Thursday and will come home on Monday. So far he's got to play pool, attend a class at Martin's school (English!), attend a birthday party and today I think he's going to a hockey game. Bryn will only be here another week and a half as he heads home on March 30th to get in on most of his lacrosse season. (Just got an email from Bryn, he said he made a room full of Latvian teenagers laugh, at the party and it as awesome!)

Ryan has decided to go home to Portland a bit early. He's paying to change his ticket and fly home on March 26th. Erik and I will go home on April 14th. We'll miss him, but it'll be great for him to be with his family and friends. He's not been around anyone his age since Mid December so he's excited to go home early. He'll get there in time to go on the choir tour with the Wilson choir. They are going to Seattle and Bellingham.

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We're back from the Irish Center. We got to listen to several hours of wonderful music. There was a fiddle, guitar and flute at first and then 2 more fiddlers and a penny whistler joined in. We also stayed longer and watched some of the Ireland vs Italy rugby game on a huge screen. That was fun too.

We came home and watched the England vs Wales 6 nations rugby game. Wales won handily, 30-3 that means they are the champions. Erik and Ryan are out walking now. Erik's been getting 18,000 steps nearly every day, 10 miles.

Tomorrow morning we leave here before 7 to attend the church Mission Center conference in Birmingham. A friend, Keith McMillan, is giving us a ride most of the way. He was in Orion with Steve and Roger and is a great guy, very funny. Last night we had some of the community of Christ young adults over for pizza. He came too and kept calling Ryan, Roger.
We had people here from Germany, Russia, England, Norway and America, quite international. We then sang a song in Spanish! Plus a few other songs. It was very fun.