We got back into Austin and arrived at the location for the wedding, to gather with friends and family of the couple of the rehearsal. The venue is a place owned by a non-profit that supports mission programs in Kenya, so any funds they receive over necessary expenses, go to help indigents in Africa. The little garden spot where we met was formerly the location of a landscaping business, so there are some very interesting, unusual plants still on the property. A converted residential building for office space, and a big shed-type building, of corrugated metal once used as a green house.
When we got there, friends were stringing little white lights every where, to create 'atmosphere' for the wedding the following evening. There will be more decorating on Friday afternoon -
After several run-throughs, the group adjourned to a little rented space a couple of miles away for dinner. Tex-mex catered food, in a small, low-ceiling-ed building that serves as the home of a prison ministry. Hundreds of books lined the walls, but there was plenty of space to set up tables and chairs for us to all sit and eat the tacos and burritos assembled to taste in a buffet-type line. I picked up a flyer about the organization, and find that they send books to the incarcerated in Texas state prisons. I had not really thought about this: but another way that being confined drives a person stir-crazy: nothing to read!
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