Tuna Tang anyone

Tuna Tang was a surprise that was unexpectedly good. Spikey fruit was also good.

So we were out of town for the last week or so in Tijuana doing a service project with some other people form our church. We had a great time and got to do a lot of stuff. Drywalling a halfway house, pouring a footing for a wall, and putting on kids VBS type thing was a great time. We also worked with a drug and alcohol rehab center. This was a real rehab center..not one of those pansy CA rehab centers. In this one the guys were locked in a room with other guys for the first 15days to detox. No medications to help get them off it or make the symptoms less painful...just cold turkey.

Here is Jason working with Adrian(a rehab guy).

We had to figure out my height in Meters to answer the many questions.

We also went to a jail where the offenders were kept for the first 36hrs after their arrest. No cameras allowed inside, but this is the guy who has the connection on the inside. This ministry was very fun and cool, but the smell inside of the jail was not pleasant (as one might expect from a Mexican jail).

Here is the boarder between Mexico and the U.S. I told Brenda to make a run for it, but she decided to just stick her foot through.

Here is Brenda, Kelly(on the left), and our missionary Barbarita at the orphanage.

We served dinner at the rehab center when the guys graduated from thee program. Here is Brenda serving Kelly beans with the biggest spoon I have ever seen.

Kids at the Dios altisimo church.

The group at the halfway house.

All in all it was a great time and for other details you could look at our other blog at

sjcrc.blogspot.com

A few other things

So, the other weekend we stopped by the Greek Festival in San Jose. Apparently San Jose has a big Greek population and it is thriving. The food at the festival was good, but it made me kind of want to go to a dutch festival like the old days back in Fulton.Here is the view from mt. Hamilton.

Saturday Brenda and I rode to Mount Hamilton and the Lick Observatory. It is a cool road that is a great motorcycle ride as well as a good time. The curves and the smooth road are always a good time and we got to see a part of the bay area that we had not been before.

Today after church I went on a ride by myself and had a great time going down the backroads to Watsonville and over to Gilroy and then home again. This was such a good time and it is amazing what a couple of rides can do to relax your body.

I have been working out in the CV(central valley) for the past week and will be out there most of the next week as well. It is installing a air sparge system and is a good time, but a lot of hard work. Hard manual labor is always good for the body as well as the mind (but not for the back).

The bike is doing great and I have a hard time keeping on the straight and narrow...it loves the curves.

Fruit and produce is grown all over California and is always fresh and always good.

Oh ya "it" finally came in. Brenda and I made a deal that if her A1C was below 6.5 she would get a diamond necklace and ...well it was and ...so here it is. It took a long time to get the necklace because we had to order it to get the exact thing that she wanted. She has it now and is sporting it everywhere.

An up close of the diamonds.

Have you noticed what passes for news nowadays...I can hardly watch TV without shaking my head and thinking why do I care and why are they spending time on this crap. For the past 3-4 years they have been reporting on the 49ers moving to the south bay and every time it does not happen and then three months later they recycle the same old story to fluff out the broadcast. I hate that crap and the next time I hear about them moving they had better be here, or the TV is getting shot.