Scenes of yesterweek

We got home Monday, and two days later Abbie got up and said, "I would like to be back in Lisbon." As nice as it was to be there, I couldn't imagine it having been that nice. But she had just looked out the window and seen the overcast skies, which are common here. Aha! She didn't miss Lisbon, after all. She missed the sun. Well, the weather was perfect both times we went. Ne'er a cloud in the sky. Note the picture of the Marquis do Pombal monument.





The Marquis was in charge of things when the big earthquake leveled Lisbon on Nov. 1, 1755. He supervised the rebuilding of the city, with its wide avenues and large traffic circles. He also expelled the Jesuits from Portugal, which I guess in today's terminology would make him "a mover and a shaker".





We were refreshed by the leadership conference, and over time we pray that we can transmit some of what we experienced to the leaders in the church here. We made several very interesting (and I believe, important) contacts during the week we were there. Some of the sights we saw:

In the "I-would-have-picked-another-name" category:

Eating out is always a big part of going to a strange place, and we passed by this place one day at lunch. Something about the name made it seem less than attractive as an eating establishment. As I said, we passed by it, and ate somewhere else close by.






Help wanted: Circus experience desirable
As this picture so graphically illustrates, in these days of high unemployment and economic crisis, if you have a job, you'd better hang on to it, especially if you're working on/from/off of an upper floor.