Angie & Malcolm

Angie & Malcolm

Sunday morning we went to the church service at St. Wilfrid's, the Anglican church that Paul is the priest of. A huge difference that Mennonites would find, was the music. They didn't even have any written music. The words were written and the tune apparently was just known by most. No four part harmonies or any harmonies at all. No piano and no organ. Just voices... It had a very special feel to it though to be in an old cathedral with our voices echoing around the walls. It was a bit brass though! After a gorgeous meal at the Biltons, we were picked up by Angie, a member of Great Horton Methodist Church. She took us back to her house and from there we took her dog for a walk, but as much as Nellie needed the walk, she was actually walking us! This was our first real experience out in the woods and countryside. The weather was pretty good and the landscape was beautiful. It was how you picture it in your head! It was a luv-lay walk and we really enjoyed it. Their dog Nellie was a very smart border collie who was obsessed with her stick. She always had one! She would trot ahead of us and strategically place her stick on the path, that way when we would walk, hopefully someone would pick it up. We ignored her for a lot of the time, so she would ran back behind us, pick up the stick and trot ahead and leave it for use to step over. This continued the entire afternoon. Midway through our walk we stopped at a little village pub that was built 1500's.

Nellie, waiting for the stick to be thrown!

On the way back to Angie's we had a few exciting things happen to us! Leigh touched her first cow! Our Floridan girl was pretty excited to say the least! So was the cow!  Also, while we were walking back on a path/road a car came and we had to sit on the fence so that it could pass. I thought that is was straight from the movies!
When we got back we had a nice sit and had a wonderful meal that ended with ice cream with fresh pineapple and a sauce made out of apples and blackberries. It was an amazing combination! Yum!
It was great to see the real England countryside and we offered to join on the walk in the future!