Kombucha

Thankfully I found a natural food store in Rochester within walking distance of our hotel.

I decided to try some of their local kombucha. This first one is a yummy grape flavor. So, so tasty. I might try to take some home!

Last Restaurant

I have one last restaurant to blog about from the missions trip.  Jamaican!

Just so, so good.  Sweet and sour chicken (thankfully more sweet than sour) with beans and rice plus some cabbage.  All this along side a soft potato-type bread.  A nice big hunk of bread too.  Way more food than could be eaten.

Life is Good

On Tuesday we did our "Urban Plunge". We were sent out in small groups, usually of 4, on a mission to interact with the community and learn more about the homeless. Each group was given a minimal amount of money with which to buy our dinner, a destination and a list of question that we were to ask a homeless person while sharing a meal with them.

Our group was assigned the Eastern Market. While walking to our destination we brain stormed about how we'd accomplish our goal.

After procuring the food, finding our homeless person proved more difficult than expected. Especially, because we didn't want to just assume someone was homeless! However, our person was located, questions were answered and meal shared. All this equaled mission accomplished!!

Kara wound up being our navigator, Seth found the food (pizza) and Cody our spokesperson.

To celebrate our success we went across the street and enjoyed a dozen donuts. Cody ate 5 in about as many minutes. A frozen coffee was at the top of my celebratory list while enjoying the air conditioned atmosphere. Did I mention it was about 95 degrees out? It was while I sat in my seat with my half eaten donut and frozen coffee that I thought to myself "Life is good."

Once our body temperatures returned to normal and fortified by all the sugar we headed out again, this time to Union Station. It was there that we were to meet up with the rest of our people.