Tijuana/San Diego - Day 2

Today was a fairly relaxing day. We started off the day by going to church in Rosarito. It was very energetic, with 45 minutes of singing, mostly in Spanish, but switching to English for some verses and choruses. After that there was a 45 minute sermon, given in English, but translated into Spanish after each line. I found some things in the church odd, such as the fact that they forbid children from being in the sanctuary (or at least they will forbid children starting next week when their downstairs room with closed circuit television is done). Ostensibly it is being done due to overcrowding, but it seems anti-Christian to forbid someone from attending the main worship service just because they have children. While our church does something similar, in that we provide age appropriate teaching for children, it is not something that is forced upon anyone, and children are welcome to stay in the sanctuary the entire service. I'm certain that faced with the same overcrowding situation, our church would approach specific leaders and long-term attendees of the church and ask them to move to the basement, leaving the main sanctuary for newcomers.

But, I digress. After church we went to a restaurant that served BBQ chicken. The meal consisted of an entire chicken, rice, beans, cole slaw and hot corn tortillas. Chips and salsa was served as an appetizer. The salsa was nice and spicy and the whole meal was extremely good. We ate outside, where there was a play structure with slides. Xander wanted to go down them, so I helped him up, only to realize that the level with the slides was about 7 feet off the ground, with no railings of any kind. Quite different from our uber-safety conscious society.

We then returned home so that the kids could have their naps. We had thought of going to the beach when they woke up, but it wasn't that warm today (only about 16 degrees) and it was supper time once everyone was awake.

Just before supper, Rick and I drove through Rosarito to ensure he could find his way from the house to the orphanage where he will be doing some mechanical work, without taking any of the main roads. This meant bouncing around on "roads" that make northern Saskatchewan grids look like freeways. The area we are staying in is not poor by Mexican standards, but it is by Canadian ones, which makes the entire area look poor and unkempt to my eyes.

Tomorrow we are planning to go to Sea World in San Diego, which means getting up fairly early, since there is an almost 2 hour wait to get across the border.