Yesterday I went to the adult Sunday school at my friend's church while she taught a children's class. Once someone tipped me off that we were studying Job <yobe>, I was able to follow along pretty well. It was sort of a verse by verse discussion, so I could pretty well tell the topic and generally what people were saying. However, when church started, other than understanding we were in Hebrews talking about Jesus, the perfect man....yeah, I didn't catch much else. :p

It was wonderful, though, to fellowship amongst my Spanish brothers and sisters. Actually, my friend told me they have a very international church with members from many Latin countries. The singing was quite rousing with at least 10 people in front playing various instruments. I'm terrible with numbers, but I think there were maybe 80-100 folks jammed into pews as tight as possible. It was just marvelous with everyone standing and singing their hearts out. I was able to sing along with most of the songs because of the overhead, but I can't say I knew what I was singing most of the time --- other than a great song with something like Celebrate the Victory in Jesus as the chorus.

After church we walked to one of Granada's two malls. Nothing is open on Sundays except food shops, but the Burger King was open and we enjoyed a whopper con queso, papas fritas y Coke. It was quite a popular location -- we were there about an hour because the kids were having fun in the play area, and the whole time the line to order was out the door.

When we left BK we headed toward the City Center and strolled for several hours. My friend pointed out numerous fountains celebrating various accomplishments. Some were Spanish by origin, most musulman. She said water is very important to Islam, so they plopped fountains everywhere. There were also quite a few old, beautiful buildings with interesting architecture. We saw the Alhambra from a distance -- as I understand we'll go back later so I can check that out more closely. We also saw the famous statue, The Thinker, from a distance because it's here for a one month exhibition.

It was interesting to see how many Spaniards were out and about, as well as many ... err ... interesting looking Europeans. More dreadlocks than I've ever seen in a single day, and I had occasion to ask my friend if marijuana was legal as I watched some dude rolling a joint in one of the plazas. :x