BSF

Sunday we decided to worship at the service in the park. I found out that the service was at 10:30 in a very nice chapel. Many of the permanent buildings are made of very solid stone quarried locally. This one was lovely both inside and out. They had a worship team, just like a real church. The message was more on sanctification than law and gospel but was instructive. The people in the park are loyal and seem devoutly interested in worship. The preacher was a lay minister, like myself, but out of the Baptist tradition. We changed clothes and went off to New Braunfels for the Wurstfest. We had fun getting there, since neither of us want to pay to park. We had to walk about two blocks back to the huge building built for this purpose only. (This frugal spirit has allowed us many challenging adventures over the years.) Evelyn chose a back way in so we walked across a railroad and over a barbed wire fence into a campground that was, unfortunately, on the wrong side of a river. We learned that there was a railroad bridge that we could walk across to get across the river. Just as we got back to the tracks, a long freight train came lumbering by and we had to wait to cross the bridge. I remembered walking across a bridge in my hometown that had only the ties to step on to cross, but this one had a walk way on one side. It was still a bit scary as the old boards creaked and popped as we crossed. We paid our $8 each to enter and went to a stand to share a serving of catfish and curly fries. The price of beer was $4 so I was content with diet coke. Ironically, we went to this huge celebration of wurst (sausage) and had neither beer or sausage. We did dance to a very good 14 piece polka band that had come from New York state to play. They were excellent. The hall had 16 huge beer mug displays that were clever and humorous. I have not been successful in posting pictures but will try these again. There were more than 60 food and souvenir booths that were interesting to visit when we rested between polka dances. We came home earlier than we needed to and packed up our coach and left for the Wal-Mart closer to BSF headquarters than this park. The traffic is so much heavier than it was 10 years ago that I think we would have to spend more than an hour getting to the BSF headquarters if we stayed in this park. We checked with the security guard about our location and set up. We had not eaten much so we walked to a nearby Macaroni Grill where I hoped to get a delicious entree I had had several years ago in Corpus Christi but couldn’t even remember what it was. We don’t think is was still on the menu. We did share a delicious sausage, onion, bell pepper and capallini dish that was more than enough for us with some left to take home. We walked home and I took a pair of jeans back to exchange. I had scratched what looked like gravy from the leg and made a small hole. This plus the tearing of one of the belt loops made me think the material was in some way defective. They were gracious about exchanging even though I had bought them in California last May. I had only worn them about a dozen times. We went to bed too early, and I wakened and wrote this. I didn’t know the time because I will never get back to sleep if I start thinking of things based on what time it is.
We arrived at BSF one hour early. We read while waiting for the work day to begin. We have prayer and then get assignments from the floor director. Evelyn spent the day consolidating registration forms from four packs of 25 into one pack of 100. I made boxes by applying wet tape to the folded cardboard of different sizes. I only taped the bottoms, leaving the top open to be filled. We worked separately and agreed that we didn’t like what we did. I liked mine but spent the day away from the fellowship with the other volunteers. After work, we went to a movie Stranger than Fiction starring Will Farrell. It was really entertaining. We came back and finished the leftovers from last night and a rock Cornish hen that I had smoked last summer, frozen and brought with us. I spent some time at the local Best Western using their Wifi and watching the football game. I came back and watched the news