the weekend!

Friday before leaving work, I was given a car! with a gps to help me find my way! Yay!!

Sat. I started looking for a possible permanent place to live but between not knowing where I was going and driving on the wrong side of the road it got to be very stressful so I decided to go have a little fun. I had been told about Mt. Coot-tha, which was a lookout over all of Brisbane, so I went up in that direction. It was quite pretty up there, although pretty crowded since it's a big tourist area. After taking a few pics and eating some lunch, I went driving around and found a spot to do a little hiking around. The I stumbled across the botanical gardens, which were super pretty!! You could easily spend a couple weeks there.

Sunday, I was planning on going to one church in the morning and a different one in the evening. Unfortunately, I had difficulty finding the church in the morning... and finally found it by a very indirect route, but since it was a small church and at that point it was almost 30 min after the service had started I decided that I'd just go to their evening service instead. So I spent the afternoon hanging out and went to a local park with sorta a mini zoo with a bunch of native Australia animals. That evening I went back to the church. It was a super small crowd (maybe 20 ppl), but ppl were friendly. Once I get a better idea of where I'm actually going to be living I'll be able to better decide on a permanent church too.

After church, I was invited to dinner and the young adults bible study on Monday and so I went. Dinner was amazing, especially since I have only been eating sandwiches and pastries pretty much since I got here. Bible study was good too, though a little different than what I'm used to. It is good to know that the sunday school answer to any question no matter what country you're in is always Jesus :).