Sunday!

We started our day by eating muffins and bagels and cereal for breakfast, and then we went outside and formed a big line to greet all of the Canadian churchgoers. We were throwing a football across the way over the cars and lots of people gave us high fives. We clapped for them, cheered as they came in. It was fun. This huge F-150 drove by and Sam Brandt yelled "now THAT is America's truck," proceeded to shake the drivers' hand, and therefore singled himself as the biggest baddest American that ever attended this church. 
The SERVE project is a thing that Meadowlands Fellowship Christian Reformed Church (or MFCRC for short. It's funny if you read it phonetically) has been putting on for the last 10 years. MFCRC and another church came together today to commission all 47 of us for the week. 15 of us came from America, and we're all scattered across different groups--a stratified sample of Americans in each group so the Canadians are equally entertained/annoyed. I'm in group #1, so even if we lose any games we can still say we're #1. I have to say that the Canadians at SERVE, and most people I've met outside of the church, are very friendly, and I wish people were this laid back in the United States. 
After church, where the sermon was about Titus, the whole group found out about what we're going to be doing this week. Up until now it has been a complete mystery. I'll leave it to tomorrow's blogger to unveil what we're up to. 

Everybody went to a lookout point at the top of a cliff that overlooks Hamilton to take a group picture. You could literally see the whole skyline of Toronto across the bay. It was like a postcard. From there we started a scavenger hunt. It was cool to spend a lot of time traveling around the city getting to know it. We visited landmarks like Tim Hortons Stadium and the very first Tim Hortons Coffee. We also got to go to a castle and an old battlefield. This scavenger hunt involved a lot of taking selfies with strangers--at one point I had to talk to the police because I got arrest------ had to take a selfie with them. 
After the scavenger hunt we hit the showers and as I'm typing this dinner is served. They have really good cooks here and we're very lucky to have that. I hope you're all having a wonderful week at home or work so far, and I highly recommend the Ice Capp at Tim Hortons if you get around to trying it. There's one that just opened up in Fairlawn, so give it a go if you want to experience the true Canadian cuisine with us this week.

God bless, and a happy birthday to Dad!
Micah