I planned to go to church with my relatives in the morning. I was expecting a small church. I guess that is because I have only been attending small ones. But this morning, the one I went too was huge. This building is so big, it is almost the size of a small shopping complex. The building has about 3 levels including a basement.
There is a library, information desk, gymnasium, staff rooms, sermon rooms about 3 that I know of and study rooms. It's like university!! When I arrived it seemed so chaotic with so many people coming in that there is policeman at the front overseeing the traffic.
Inside the car park there were people directing the traffic for parking.
They have so many people attending that a school bus has been hired to help those to get there from the far away places, because there is enough space to park. Amazing isn't it.
One of the bigger rooms can fit I think up to nearly 1000 people. The room I was in for the English sermon had nearly up to 100 people. So you can imagine when we all finish for lunch there is so many people trying to get out. I took lots of photos. I even took a picture of the map of the building.
You will be so amazed to see how big it is.
Afterwords I went for yum cha. It was a big line up from this mornings service. The food was great. It's like I never left home being here in Canada. We decided today would be a perfect day to head out to the shopping centers. Only to find out that most of them are shut during this long easter break. There was one shopping centre open with in my local area, which was Pacific Mall. As we headed down there we noticed the traffic was becoming quite bad. There was a car accident. We passed it along the way, a car had turned over and police were diverting traffic. Following from that as we were trying to get home, we passed another car accident. What were the chances of two car accidents happening from less than a mile from each other. This time a bus had slammed into the car. Whether someone was hurt or not I am not sure. But it certainly didn't look good at all.
In the evening I headed off with my dad, brother and cousin to a basketball game. It was just a play off. They teams didn't make the finals, so they were just playing against each other. It was so much fun seeing a live game. Totally different atmosphere compared to watching footy live. We went to Air Canada Centre, and inside it was heavily commercialised. The stadium was the home ground for the team the Raptures, who where versing 76ers.
They gave out so many good prizes. They have this things called Fanapaloozas (sounds funny doesn't it). I think that is how they spell it, Here is just a little list of the good giveaways; free petrol vouchers, t-shirts, team jerseys, basketballs (I think this could have knocked you out of it came straight at you), sweat towels (clean ones), mascots, shoes, blue ray dvd players, truck hire vouchers, digital camera and one week trip to Cuba. I wish we had these kinds of prizes when we watch footy games.
Below are some photos from the game.
During the game there was an announcement if the home team(the Raptures) were able to score 100 points, ticket holders are entitled to a free pizza the next day. My first thought was this seems like an unreachable goal. But to my mistake I was wrong. The score was 109 -102. The Raptures one, which is a good thing, because most of the people in the stadium were Rapture fans!! So looks like I am getting a free slice of pizza tomorrow!! YeahA!!
To finish my evening we ate at Bier Market. The food was great and the restaurant was lovely. The live band, not so good. The singer was a little bit out of tune and a bit winey!! But yeah it was a great evening.
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