Busy Weekends!

Our four-year anniversary was April 2nd, and we spent the day at the California Academy of Science in Golden Gate National Recreation Area. It was awesome! There is so much to see and things to do--it needs to be experienced. They have the nation's largest digital planetarium (coolest thing ever), a four story indoor rain forest (with tons of butterflies), an aquarium that is almost as big as the one in Monterey, a 3-D bug show, a T-Rex skeleton, and a natural history wing with lots of stuffed animals from Africa. Needless to say, if you love nature and astronomy, you will love this place.

That weekend we went to a live debate to see William Lane Craig (author of Reasonable Faith) and Christopher Hitchens (author of God is NOT Great). The topic was (you guessed it) "Does God Exist?" It was held at Biola University, and it lasted just over two hours. Sarah and I were very fortunate to get seats only twenty feet away from the speakers' podium, since over 3,000 people showed up to the event, not to mention the people watching live over the web across the world in 15 different countries including Sri Lanka! As if that wasn't cool enough, we were able to exit out the back way where we literally walked right by Hitchens and were able to get near the front of the book-signing line. THEN, some people were interviewing people in line for a documentary they were making, and they interviewed me! To top things off, I got to meet Dr. Craig in person and actually got to speak to him for a couple of minutes while he signed my book. Needless to say, I was on cloud nine.

This last weekend was also a highlight in our lives. We were very fortunate to spend some time with the Watoto kids' choir from Uganda. These kids were amazing, not just as performers but as people. Sarah and I truly felt blessed to have the opportunity to have dinner and breakfast with them. The kids always hugged us, always said please and thank you, were always smiling, and made us feel like "old" friends as soon as we met them. We could not help falling in love with all of them. Thank you McChesneys for giving us that opportunity! :)