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It's always nice to post from different places than home... so here is a quick update from Riga. I'm staying in a hotel in the old town, which is really nice indeed, as I can see with my own eyes. I walked around a bit this afternoon through this old town. Lots and lots of young people, places that are trendy (or wannabe-trendy, I can't really tell), beautiful architecture. The picture is not very typical but I liked the old Soviet image. (It is actually a pre-Soviet statue from 1905!).The conference started tonight with a talk by Elaine Lloyd, an American staff lady who has been living here in Riga since 1994. Great story about discipleship - understandable, very personal and practical. I'll post some notes later. Afterwards we had dinner in town; since Elaine and her husband are the Riga experts, I thought they would take us to some fancy Latvian place, but alas. I should have known better with these 'culturally different' Americans :-)
And thanks to the unsecured wireless connection of neighbours in the hotel I could Skype from the hotelroom this afternoon for more than an hour, have an MSN chat and online prayer with Mira tonight and post this post... for free!
Mark-- Sorry to disappoint you by our choice in restaurants. Unfortunately, in Old Town, their was really only one traditionally Latvian restaurant near the conference site and the hotel. Unfortunately, it is very small and you can't always get seating. Since we were tired, we went with a place that was large enough to guarantee that our entire party could be seated. But if you come again, we will go to Latvian only restaurants, as we like them better than American restaurants. Your "culturally different" friend.
You're forgiven! I hope you could read the ironic tone...
We had a great time there, I really enjoyed the fellowship. And the hamburger was much better than the usual McDonald's...
Thanks again for the hospitality and the conference!