Sunday, February 10, 2008

Church and shopping, two great activities.

Today we woke up and decided to go to the church that i went to when I came in December. The church is called South Valley Community Church. It's a very welcoming church of about 500 people we guessed. It is across the street and one block down from the Vineyards where we want to live. It has great worship and the pastor seems down to earth. Today was a bit different because the theme was football(for the probowl, which hardley anyone in canada even knows when it is). Outside as we pulled up to the church was 50yards of astro turf set ouot complete with yardage markings, goal posts and a lifesize Jerry Rice cut out. During the service they handed out 50/50 tickets for a draw to throw the football from 50 yards and get it trough a small hole in Jerry Rice's hands for $5000. This seemed weird to me too, but it was sponsored by a local company so it wasn't tithe money. Every Sunday morning the have coffee/lattes, donuts and other treats set up outside as you arrive, if this isn't reason enough to try a chuch I don't know what is(also today the gave out free hamburgers/hotdogs, pop, and chips). Oh and the service was fine too.
After church we headed to the Gilroy Premium Outlets to check it out. It is huge with more stores than you would ever hope for. To compare, the seattle outlet mall has 110 stores the gilroy outlet mall has over 145 stores and they are building a whole other section with 25 more stores. I think we'll be able to find what we need there. After that we came back to the hotel and went for a walk together, then elizabeth took Sienna to the park to play and I watched basketball. Another great day together. Hopefully this entry didn't bore you to death but I want to try to keep a record for anyone who does read this thing. Sorry no pictures hopfully next time.Watch this video and look at how fast Elizabeth runs down the slide.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds so nice and warm there. Glad you are finding little places for Sienna to have fun.Can't wait to see you guys.
Love Gmama C
xo's

Anonymous said...

Wow, who ever heard of church being so......welll....entertaining!
As far as preparing entries for your blog diary..please keep up the good work Brian...the "eyes of the North are upon you"....haha
Love you,
Mommm
xxx000

Annie said...

Ya, entertaining is right! They feed you??! Crazy!
Fun shopping! haha
Great video

Anonymous said...

That sounds like a pretty sweet church! I can only imagine what they do for March Madness!! cute video too....i love your laugh at the end brian as sienna falls on her face. fatherly love haha.
Bud

Anonymous said...

I'm the Outreach Pastor at South Valley Community Church. I'm glad you enjoyed your visit this past Sunday and hope you'll join us again. I think you will like Gilroy, it's great town. March Madness... I like it.

Mark Turner
mark@svccgilroy.com

Louise said...

Brian I'm howling at your descriptions of things, places etc! Too funny! Looks like the pastor caught up with you though!