Church

I visited this local church today. It is one of the most beautiful church buildings I have ever seen in my life, anywhere. The chandeliers are just mesmerizing. So many things are different about this church than the ones in Bedrock. This one is extremely clean, has pews instead of theater seats, is spotlessly clean, has young people who attend, has middle-class attendees (instead of only poor farmers) who dress very well, and the preacher speaks the national language instead of a dialect. You have to arrive 30 minutes early to get a seat downstairs. If you sit upstairs you can't see anything going on, but there are closed-circuit TV's that show what's going on. This church is one of those registered with the government. Anyway, I just thought you'd like to see what it looks like.

Autumn in Bamboo Forest

Autumn in Bamboo Forest is really pretty. In Bedrock we had dry autumns, and the leaves just died and fell off the trees. Here in Bamboo Forest it has been a very wet autumn, and so the changing colors have been really pretty to view. I didn't get many good photos, but I'll put up some photos of BF since I arrived.

I'm getting more visitors in Bamboo Forest than I ever did before. I already had one friend spend two nights here, and a married couple is coming to visit next week. A friend passed through town in October and I caught up with him for coffee. Bamboo Forest is a tourist town, and near a big city, so it is not nearly as isolated as Bedrock was. (I'm not slamming Bedrock...I love that place too...I'm just enjoying different things in life now.)

It is Thanksgiving Eve. I just made a pie. Happy Thanksgiving!