A Whole New World...

Last night, we got a fun call from Mo and To asking us to join them at a local coffee shop for what promised to be a hilarious musical performance by our friends Caleb and Pat. Before I tell you about the performance, let me give you a quick plug on the coffee shop. It's a non-profit coffeehouse smack in the middle of downtown. They've been here for a couple years now and their sole purpose is to invest into the people of this city, building relationships with them, encouraging arts and talents, offering classes on a whole range of topics, things like that. The owners practice loving like Jesus did, a lot of the baristas volunteer their hours to support the coffeehouse, and any profit over and above their bare living expenses is donated to other non-profits in the area. It's just a great, homey place for people of all different walks of life to come in, get a warm cup of coffee, and feel like they belong and are loved. Such a great way to devote one's life.

So it was at this coffee house that we got to experience the treat of Caleb and Pat's musical talents. I actually don't know Pat (although the rest in the group did), but I know Caleb and I think I can accurately describe him by saying he is a large, 26ish year old, manly man with some soul. So you can imagine our entertainment when the first song they played was a touching rendition of Stand By Me. And the night only got better after that. I tell you what, these guys could hit some high notes, and they sang with the emotion of all the past American Idols combined. Our favorite was a beautiful version of Aladdin's A Whole New World, which Isaac couldn't stop singing this morning as we got ready for work. They even had a little Justin Timberlake in there because, really, who doesn't love a little JT every now and then? I don't think we stopped laughing the whole night. It was a great way to spend the evening.

Originally I was going to do math...boring. Instead, we got ourselves some high class entertainment, thanks to our boys from college.