<p>Yay! Third American Toure de France winner is from my home county!!! I surely hope they will welcome him to his hometown with a parade! </p>
<p>I watched the Toure for the first time yesterday and was quite impressed with the coverage. If I knew it was covered so well, I would have started watching sooner. I unfortunately had to miss it today though :(.</p>
<p>As for the Mennonite thing…</p>
<p>There are actually many different types of Mennonites in Lancaster county. There are some old order ones, some that were called “black bumper” Mennonites (they would paint their chrome bumpers black as they don’t like to flash around wealth), and some normal Mennonites (they dress plainly, but will go shopping at the mall, drive cars, and wear the newest sneaker styles).</p>
<p>I’m not up to par on the exact differences religiously between Amish and Mennonite, but Mennonites adapt to society more than the Amish. For example, I worked a few years during high school at a retirement home (very modern, expensive and fancy) that was run by the Mennonites. The Mennonites also don’t seem to be adverse to contemporary Christian music. Purple Door, the largest contempory Christian festival in Lancaster County (includes Christian punk rock and the likes), is held at Lancaster Mennonite High School (the only private high school I know I would have been happy at :)).</p>