Living the Dream with Joyce: Sunday, March 8, 2015

Sunday: Luanne and I got up at 6:30 (actually, she set her alarm for 6:00 by mistake, so she was up before me!), which was actually a feat, since this was the time change day, so our bodies told us that it was really 5:30 a.m. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz We went to the 7:30 service at the Roman Catholic church down the street - a rather magnificent building which used to be the Cathedral for the Diocese, but which is now apparently a co-Cathedral - the main one being in Houston. It's been a while since I've attended mass in an RC church, although not as long as Luanne, who grew up Roman Catholic but hasn't darkened a church door for about 20 years. She was astounded at the informality of the service. I was once again reminded of the popularity of the Catholic church - the church was crowded, even at this early hour! It was fun singing music I wasn't familiar with - the Missals had the music in them, which was very helpful!
For lunch, we went to the Sunflower Cafe, one of my favourites - then drove to Tiki Island. I've passed the turnoff many, many times and assumed that this was a very small community just on the other side of the causeway to the mainland - and I know that they have an rv park there; however, I was amazed at the actual size of the community - and the houses are huge and very expensive looking! In fact, it's very similar to Jamaica Beach - but larger! Who knew that all that land and all those houses existed on Tiki Island??