Easter Sunday, with no easter eggs to find, Lloyd and Judy joined with Sarah and 10 others to provide food to homeless persons, at the base of Waterloo bridge. Sarah does this once a month with the group from a local church, who have been doing this for several years. The program is called "The Kings Table". Lloyd ladled stew, while Judy and Sarah made and poured tea and coffee. We did this for over one hour before we reached the end of the que. Several came back for seconds, thirds, fourth and even fifth helpings. These persons are for the most part living on the street, without employment. They were grateful and polite, and were happy to engage in conversation. Apparently some of the same individuals have been coming each Sunday for food for years. In addition to the food we gave out chocolate bars, bananas, oranges and easter eggs. Whatever was left over, loaves of bread, litres of milk etc. were given to those who asked.
After 2.5 hours, we gathered up the tables and supplies, the organizers headed out and we three took the tube to Holy Trinity Brompton (Sarahs church) for the 5:00 pm Easter service. Very contemporary service with lots of young persons. Judy and Lloyd would be some of the older ones in the congregation of 250-300 persons. After church, we headed over to the Bunch of Grapes, a London pub, for dinner. Sounds hypotricial dosen't it....from church to a pub, however it's quite the common thing here.
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Interesting Easter Sunday. We went to church in Tarpon Springs then to breakfast at Tiffany's, a local Greek restaurant.
We spent the day at the pool where we received a call from Greg Peters whinning about a snow storm at home. Frank told him to call Boomer. Several of the pool goers clapped and cheered when Frank told them of his friend at home who was snowed in.
See you soon. Sounds like you are having quite an adventure.
Frank and Geri
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