Mankato Address

Our address changes so often I can hardly keep up with it, but here it is:

Yiannis and Elisabeth Souldatou
30 Hilltop Lane #102
Mankato, MN 56001
Home Phone: 507-388-2984 (We have a line but are waiting for our actual telephone to arrive via the moving van still).
Elisabeth Cell Phone: 206-359-5968

I was hoping to post some pics this morning of beautiful Minnesota, but due to techicial difficulties and Yiannis taking our laptop to school for his first day of teaching they will have to wait.

This weekend we enjoyed the mathematics beginning of the year picnic on Friday. It was a very family-friendly picnic and the games of volleyball at the end were quite enjoyable.

Saturday Yiannis and I enjoyed a nice date after going running. Hooray. We hadn't been running since the move, and it felt so nice to get the body moving in that way again.

Sunday, was our weekly 1.5 hour one-way drive to church. We haven't settled on a church yet. We went to Rochester yesterday, and afterwards we enjoyed some Greek music at their annual festival, though sadly no one was out dancing except the professional traditional Greek team they brought in from the Twin Cities.

The chanters at church again were mostly women; in Greece only males serve as chanters which gives a very different flavor to the Liturgy and I would agree I think it adds quite a bit of reverence to the chants. As Sofia said yesterday the women make you feel more like you are at the opera. When there is a balance between the men and women, I think it is ok, but I do agree when the women voices predominate it isn't as nice.

There are three churches about equal distance from us, and I think we will check out the last one next week (OCA).