L2L

So this past weekend was Lads to Leaders/Leaderettes. It was a freakin' blast. I'll go through a day by day assesment.

• THURSDAY was when I got there. The first thing we did when we got to Nashville was play some disc golf at the Two Rivers disc golf course. That was fun, but no way to start off a weekend in which you'll be walking non-stop. The course was all hills. Up and down and down and up. And they were no small inclines neither. But it was still fun. Afterwards we drove to the Opryland hotel to see if our rooms were ready... which they weren't. So we walk over to the Mills (that's Opry Mills to the lay man). Anyways. We go there and walk around doing nothing but being silly and making fun of some of the stores there. Well, when we get back we wait for our rooms and rendezvous with some a the Madisonites that had got there. Well, we get some of the rooms, none the one I was in. Well, by this time it's time to get some grub. I go with a group to the Walk of the Talk, or the Talk of the Cock, or maybe it was the Cock of the Walk. Who know's. It was madness trying to get there though. No one seemed to know who was riding with who or who was going. Well, I finally get a ride with Stephen and his family. The restaurant was good, but overpriced and over-rated. Well, get back and I finally have room. After doing a little settling in, I go with Stephen to help move the food to the food room. We had to move the stuff halfway across the hotel! It was madness. Well, we got it all up there and got some free food, so it was all good. After that I walked around with some peoples for a while. Then after 11:00 Fannie Mare and Laura Beth and Stephen grouped up with me so they could stay up late. So they worked on their scrapbooks for a while. Then I headed to bed once they went to their rooms. That was around 11:30 or 12:00 or so.
• FRIDAY started off with my wondering around aimlessly and looking for familiar faces. I stopped off at the arcade for a bit and played Area 51 for a time. I didn't really do much except wander aimlessly 'cause the person I wanted to do stuff with had things to do all that day. Bummer. But that evening was puppets. We finished our props and learned our songs around 45 minutes before we went in. We actually did good except that our rear back-drop fell. I held my hand up the entire puppet skit without wavering. That was murder, let me tell ya. But yeah. After that Schopper and I carried in the banner for our church in that night's award ceremony. Right after we got off the stage and dropped the banner thing with dad, I jumped ship and met up with some friends at the food court. Then we walked around and did some stuff. Can't really remember what, but yeah. Then that night Laura and Brittany wanted to stay up late so they begged me to stay up with them so they could. So I stayed out til 12:00.
• SATURDAY I got up at 7:30 so I could get to Bible Bowl. I was really tired, needless to say. I missed 3 questions. One I couldn't remember. The second I accidentally lifted up the wrong letter do to lack of paying attention. The third I didn't think enough on. But yeah. There was a tie and it took like 7 tie breaker questions to break it. Our team was one of the two teams which the tie involved I found out later. It was to see who would get first. We won. So the team I was on won first. So that was cool. After Bible Bowl I got together with Julie and Ellen and Claire and David and Bailey (I think Dave was there). We were going to run over to Opry Mills, but Bailey and I had Songs of Praise and Song Leading so we didn't really have time to go before that started, so we just hung out instead. Well, I ran off to Song Leading and find out that there are only three guys that were in the 12th grade doing it: Bob (Billy Carson), a guy whose name was Will Tucker (I kept calling him Will Turner though), and me. I got third amongst them probably mostly do to the fact that I didn't do the useless hand thing. But yeah. Anyway. I meet up with the aforementioned Opry Mills going group and we were going to go then, but we didn't have time 'cause of the devo. So we went to the devo and then to the award ceremony. Madisonites won alotta stuff. After the ceremony Julie, Ellen, Ashley, Claire, David and I all went and got some food, and then went to the fountain thingy to eat it. Well, I didn't get food, but that's irrelevant. I would say that that's the only thing that I did at that fountain thing, but it wasn't. There's only one that know's what else. But yeah. That night I got to bed at around 12:00 or 12:30 or so.
• SUNDAY I got up at 6:30 'cause I had to help out with the Lord's supper that morning. After services we left. And that's pretty much all that happened that day.

So that's L2L weekend in a nutshell.

Today, Monday, I started work. Well, it was "orientation", but still. I think I'm going to like it. I'm working mornings, but on Saturday Stephen and I are going to be workin' at the same time. That could get interesting. But I'm workin' in the back in the kitchen, Stephen's in the front. But yeah. That's all I'll blog for now.