Palm Sunday

The weekend before Palm Sunday, during the church announcements at the end of mass, they "reminded" everyone to bring their palms for mass the next weekend...Palm Sunday on the mainland usually means walking into church and being handed a single palm leaf, there is no bring-from-home aspect involved!

Ely and I seriously wondered if they were kidding, but they were not! So before mass, Ely and Noah went out to one of the palm trees near our house and cut down some palm branches for us to take to church.

It was a really unique experience seeing all of the different palm branches (and olive branches!) that people brought. It was definitely not the single palm that we are used to on the mainland, everyone had massive branches! I think it added to the feeling of what it must have been like on the original Palm Sunday with Jesus.