Ministry Memories: Comp Day Adventures & CNY

Cru has a policy where, if you work over the weekend or holiday (when you’re at a conference or something), you can take a comp day. I think it’s short for “compensatory day” but for the longest time I thought it meant “complimentary” day haha. Anyway, I took a comp day on Wednesday after getting back from Winter Conference, and my roommate Keren and I went to Epcot together.

Epcot is also hosting the Festival of the Arts, so there were cute photo-ops set up throughout the park. You can see pictures below:

Butterfly Wings

We Found a Mermaid!

We rode on some rides we’ve never been on: Living with the Land, Journey into Imagination with Figment, and The Seas with Nemo & Friends. Living with the Land was interesting, as Disney tried to educate its visitors and promote sustainable agriculture. We saw lots of unconventional agricultural methods, including vertical herb gardens and aquaponics. All of which would be relatively normal in California, but seems so foreign here.

Aquaponics

I've Never Seen a Passion Fruit Tree!

They’re also selling lots of Disney artwork, which is to generate more revenue for this $130 BILLION business. But there’s also free art for you to admire:

Sidewalk Chalk Art

Me When It's Cold in Florida

And we got to create some art! It was the mural of Figment. Each person got to paint 3 squares of the paint by numbers, and then the paint and brushes were thrown into the trash. Because of course they can afford to do that.

Paint By Numbers

Overall, it was a very fun day! Keren and I drove 30 minutes for Pho that evening because it was drizzly and very cold. On the way home, we got front-ended by a truck that was backing up (aka we got into a car accident). Thankfully, nobody is hurt and the man was very honest about the entire situation.

Wow We Ate Pho

There are already enough pictures for this post, but Song, Ruth, Tony John and I hosted a Chinese New Year dinner for all the interns + close friends on Friday! We didn’t get a picture of the entire spread because we were still cooking when everyone started eating, but this is the best picture we got. I also made the steamed whole fish, which I’m pretty proud of! It actually tasted good too.