Today we again went to International Bible Church where the worship service starts at 9am.  Forgot to mention earlier that the service is live streamed on Facebook each Sunday.  We sat on the windward side of the church this time and had the advantage of a good breeze, which is a real help since there is no air conditioning.  The pastor spoke on the events of Palm Sunday and ended his message with the question, “What sort of Savior are you looking for?”  The Jews who sang Hosana (meaning “Save, I Pray”) when Jesus rode the colt of a donkey into Jerusalem were looking for a political savior.  Others look for an economic savior, or a savoir from physical ailments.  Others looked for a savior that could provide food, like Jesus did when he fed the 5000.  We need a Savior from spiritual death, not physical death (like Lazarus, who eventually died again).

After church we needed a quick lunch so stopped by Subway in town.  It was just like those in the U.S, but with slightly less selection of vegetables, and no pepper jack cheese.

We got back to the duplex in plenty of time to load up the luggage and take Ralph, Mary Jane and Jim to the airport.  They arrive there about 90 minutes before departure time.  There was a short line at the check-in counters and no line at security.  They should have been able to get good seats in the waiting area.  From past experience, we have found that when two flights are leaving within 15 minutes of each other, about half of the passengers are standing while they wait.

After dropping them at the airport, Virginia and I decided to take the road to Lac Cai that we avoided yesterday.  Are we glad, for Mary Jane’s neck’s sake that we did not go that way yesterday!

Even though this road carries quite a bit of traffic, there are deep holes everywhere that are hard to avoid for the entire distance of 4 miles.  Even being careful, we got jolted around a lot.  Along the road we saw goats, donkeys, horses and flamingos.  The flamingos were closer than anywhere else that we had seen them.

Lac Cai is much like it was nearly 50 years ago when I first swam there.  Diving for queen conch shells was allowed in those days.  Once I remember diving down to about 10 feet deep to retrieve a conch when a huge shadow passed over above me.  I looked up and saw a huge sea turtle passing overhead.  Fortunately, the turtle wasn’t interested in me, because the most urgent thing on my mind was getting to the surface to get a breath of air.

No modern businesses have been built at Lac Cai, though there is a wooden shack type building where food and drink can be purchased.  Supposedly there is live music on the weekends, but we didn’t hear any today.

On the way back to our duplex, we decided to stop by Gio’s for another scoop of their ice cream.

After two weeks of eleven people in the duplex, It is really quiet with only the two of us here!  The evening was spent on catching up with these reports.