Olite Day Trip =)

Has been a great weekend, very full on. I caught one screening on Friday at the international documentary festival here in Pamplona. It was pretty good, but sadly didn't get to visit the rest. =(

Saturday was the day trip to the small town of Olite, only 40 min by bus from Pamplona. It's a beautiful sleepy little town, with a wonderful (restored) palace and a nice wine museum. Some photos are up on facebook, here are some others

This is the view of the town from the top of the palace

With cute towers (these are the restored ones I think)

Nice little courtyards

This is the windy street leading up the entrance of the Palace

Cathedral right next to it...

And a lovely grassy area to the side

Then I went home to cook food to keep in the fridge for the rest of the week. So I had one stove for frying the minced pork, then one stove for cooking rice, and the oven on for the vegetables, when everything stopped. Then I was panicking, because everything was broken! Later I discovered I had just tripped the circuit, and reset it, and everything worked again. I'm so proud of myself. And here's the infamous food:

Angie's version of San Choy Bau! (生菜包)
haha, the veggies weren't cooked before everything stopped (it's microwave cooked)

Some of the cooked veggies! 

The Spanish church was pretty cool, but it went for soo long. It lasted from 11.30am - 2pm: with singing/worship in the beginning, open testimony for whoever wants to share prayer points or things to thank God for, then singing, and a sermon. I found it hard to concentrate for the whole time, but generally understood the gist of the service. The sermon was great, because the speaker was old and spoke slowly and clearly. It was about humility based on the passage from Luke 18 about the pharisee being proud in front of God, and the tax collector crying out for God to have mercy on him as a sinner. Ultimately it was about having Jesus as the ultimate example (from Philippians 2:6-11) And we sang some songs to finish, and the very last was "shout to the Lord" - immediately I perked up and understood every single word, haha

I'll try and make it to the night service for young people next week, apparently it's shorter, and hopefully it will be easier to understand and follow the whole service ^^ I'm excited for it