Don't Call Me Peanut - Bayside

Epic win title for a song. =D Okay, so I was gone for 9 days in Miami. Unfortunately, since I waited so long to blog again, I forgot a fair amount of what happened. *cheesy grin* I'll attempt to possibly do my best at recalling. And I will be speaking in present tense for each of the days. Don't get confused. Or bored. kthx.

Saturday, 6-21-08; Day 1: Soooo yeah I had to wake up around 6 AM today, cause we were supposed to leave from Church around 6:45. HOWEVER, we didn't actually leave until 7:30 or so. xD Odull (nickname for one of our leaders, 23 years old) wasn't awake at the original starting point. It was kind of funny in a weird way. We kept calling him, but he didn't answer. So finally someone drove to his house and brought him. He's a hilarious guy =P Here's a video of him snoring. He's really cool and funny. We all agreed he should be a stand-up comedian during the trip. Anyway, we left around 7:45 or around that time. Odull slept all morning in the van. Also, it is impossible to describe the epicness of the van ride down in words or facial expressions, which I am not able to give to you. But it was awesome. We were in a 15 passenger van and a 7 passenger minivan (Toyota Sienna). I was in the 15 passenger van, the seat behind the driver, which is always my seat on youth trips. At around lunch or so, we were all wide awake and restless (except for Odull ^^,). So we started writing messages on pieces of paper and sticking them against the windows of the van. It was hilarious xD I don't remember why it was so funny, it just was. =P And we had cell phones, which would've worked just as well. But who wants to use cell phones when you have good old pencil, paper, and moving cars on a 4 lane highway? Seriously, dodging in and out of traffic to communicate to the other van is just way to cool to pass up (It rocks having a 21 year old youth pastor =P). Anyway, Florida had HUGE thunderstorms. I has pics of the weather. Pic 1; Pic 2. Yeah, it rained hard. Now, let me note one thing. I'll be naming random people that you've never heard of before, but they're all in my youth group. =P Anyway, in Florida, we stopped at a gas station. Mark got a 32 OUNCE MONSTER CAN. Monster is energizing enough in small cans (or so I have been told), and this one had 2500 mg of caffeine in it. IT EVEN HAD A WARNING LABEL ON IT: "Limit one can per day. Not recommended for pregnant women, or people sensitive to caffeine." He said he drank half the can in 5 minutes, then immediately had to go to the bathroom, so he stopped drinking it so fast. =P So the trip down was epic. We finally got to the place where we were staying (Pastor's house in Little Haiti in Miami) at around 8 PM or so.We were all so tired when we got there from being in the car all day. Then we got to read the little pamphlets for VBS. Each one had an animal, and we were supposed to associate virtues with the animals. i.e., courage, kindness, etc. One was lemmings. omg xD that was EPIC. First sentence in the pamphlet: "Lemmings are plump little animals closely related to the mouse." We all died of laughter. There were only like 5 of us reading them, but it was hilarious. And then it talked about lemmings having "voracious" appetites. Then it showed a picture of a lemming with his teeth bared standing next to a caribou. Or something. And it had the most obvious question ever. "Where are lemmings most likely to drown?" I'll let you figure that out =D Also, we got really confused. "The lemmings will fight each other on land, and will gradually move to water, where both usually drown....... HOW DOES THAT REPRESENT KINDNESS? O_O" Yeeaah, that lesson was hard. Also, since we were telling these to little kids, it was a little difficult to find better words for "die" and "death." YOU CAN'T TELL A LITTLE SIX YEAR OLD KID THAT A LEMMING KILLS ANOTHER LEMMING. Well you could. But it wouldn't end well. OKAYDAYTWONAObai

Sunday, 6-22-08; Day 2: We went to a Church called El Shaddai in Little Haiti. We didn't get much out of it xD It was all in Chreol. Or however you spell it. It's a combination of Spanish and French. Afterwards, we went to the beach =D Except a storm was moving in. whee another pic. But the water there O_O homg. IT WAS CLEAR. It wasn't green or anything like that. You could actually see the bottom. And it was cool too, the beach was almost level, then about 10 feet from the sea it makes a sharp drop (about a 55� angle or maybe 60�) And then another 10 feet and the sea is level with your chest. BUT it stayed that way for hundreds of feet. It was spiffy. =D But then we had to flee from the oncoming storm. Aaaaand not much happened for the rest of that day.

Monday, 6-23-08; Day 3: TODAY WAS THE FIRST DAY OF VBS. It was pretty cool. This was my first time coming to Little Haiti. Basically, it was a bunch of little kids ranging from around 3 to about 11. I don't remember much of what happened that day. But we basically just played with the kids a lot. They wanted piggy back rides and stuff like that. After VBS, we worked. We mostly painted walls inside today. Wow this was a short description. =P

Tuesday, 6-24-08; Day 4: We had VBS again today, BUT we put up a Tire Swing. Heres a picture of Cole tying the rope for it up on a tree. Odell was in charge of pushing the kids on it. He got SO SWEATY. Here's a pic of him pushing: Click. But that occupied most of the kids' attention spans. So the rest of us had to do hardly anything. xD There was actually a fair number of kids who weren't on the tire swing. They wanted piggy back rides, and to play frisbee, basketball, etc. I think today was the day we had a kickball game. Our team lost. =P WE COULD NOT SEEM TO GRASP THE CONCEPT OF ALWAYS THROWING THE BALL TO FIRST. And then when we did that our first baseman never caught it, so it usually ended up in a point for the other team. heh. Our work for that day was the same as yesterday, painting the room, etc. Pretty much the same all week. Lol And that night, Josh, Stephen (not shadeslayer), Haley, Beckah and I all stayed up till like two. =P They were all hyper on sweet tea, I was just there for the socialness.

Wednesday, 6-25-08; Day 5: SAME THING HAPPENED WITH VBS I shall not go into it again. But we took the day off from working. We went to Key Largo (YES THE KEY WEST AREA =D) and went Snorkeling. Note: Snorkeling is not as much fun if you're not doing it right like I was for the first hour. I 1) didn't inflate my lifejacket to keep me afloat, 2) the snorkel didn't stay in my house because of my overbite, 3) I kept blowing through my nose to exhale air, and that cause my goggles to fog up, and 4) I lacked the leg strength to use my flippers for very long. And I was also scared to death of getting near the coral. =D It was better in the last 15 minutes though, when I actually swam over the coral, which didn't kill me (surprisingly). But it was really cool. ^_^

Thursday, 6-26-08; Day 6: Same thing happened with VBS lol. I think I finally cracked today because I was feeling very impatient. =P But I managed to avoid that around the kids. Same thing with work, nothing special happened at all.

Friday, 6-27-08; Day 7: Taylor got beat up by the kids today. *evil giggle* Yeah, I got a video of it. =P And he was getting tired of giving the kids Piggy back rides. This was the last day of VBS/work. I was going to miss all the kids in a weird way. lol We finished up with our work and everything, and went back to the house. Oh, I have to mention one thing: All the meals I was fed in that house WERE AMAZING. :d Yum. So yeah, that about wraps Day 7 up.

Saturday, 6-28-08; Day 8: Today we drove to our old pastor's house in Brandon, Florida. we got there after having a pretty fun ride... sort of. I learned that being in the Sienna was miserable. I had no legroom at all. But I eventually got the middle seat. ^_^ moar legroom yay. And then when we got there, we all were epicly amused by their cat. Really fluffy and playful... I think. But it was declawed so that was good. They also had a bird that I really liked. And they had GH3. Which was great. Cause then I could show our youth group that my playing guitar hero actually took skill, and wasn't some stupid game. =P Through the Fire and Flames was a good song to show them that on. *happy* Then we played Ultimate Frisbee, and then we swam in their pool.

Sunday, 6-29-08; Day 9: Today we went to their Church, and afterwards they had a lunch there. Then we drove straight from there to back home. Along the way, 2 cars in front of us, the car slowly drifted onto the side, hit the median, over corrected, and did several barrel rolls. What I saw of it was when our driver suddenly braked, I looked up, see the car flying. It was... uh.. sorta freaky. But the amazing thing was that all the people inside got out. And our driver was a nurse. And they wereN'T* injured, which was spiffy. =D So now I can say the wreck was cool. I just hope they had insurance on their car. It was a brand new 2008 car. And then we narrowly avoided two other wrecks, which was good. So yes, it was "eventful."

So now I'm back... lonely... I miss seeing everyone in our youth group every morning. :( And now I leave again tomorrow. Sooooooooo yeeaah. I actually have a busy summer this year... wheeeeeeee. So yeah. That's about it.

[Edit] If anyone posts "tl;dr" or something like that on this, I shall disapprove of your choice to not read it greatly. =P

*Yeeaaaaah, made a bad typo there xD

//--{CerealKiller}

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7/6/2008 - you're gonna hate me

Posted by the Spiffy addeh

tl;dr
kidding =P
parents making me get off...and i still wanted to be first comment so i'll read the rest tomorrow and leave a better comment =D

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7/7/2008 - second comment from above comment's commenter (not a tl;dr)

Posted by the Spiffy Anonymous

o_o
right.
IMMA GONNA GO BACKWARDS
"So now I'm back... lonely..."
you were talking to me when you were writing this >_> yes yes i know its about your youth group..OK I'LL SHUT UP NOW LIKE YOU'VE ALWAYS JUST WANTED ME TO DO. =D
ok..even though i guess i feel like that after CYO...even if i talk to my loozuhs right after >_> ok, you're innocent.
Coral isn't going to eat you. Kthx. Oh wait...you ARE Seekay so...i don't knoww >_>

uhhh yeah nothing much else to say (=O)
ZOMG A COMMENT THAT ISN'T AS LONG AS THE ENTRY
yeah apparently i'm giving a 1-10 rating for seekayness and CKness
seekayness: 4
CKness: 9
DON'T KILL ME I DON'T BLAME YOU.
kinda hard to be seekayish when you're talking about VBS o_o
i don't feel addyish today.
yeah
ok
bai

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7/7/2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by the Spiffy Anonymous

>_>

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7/13/2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by the Spiffy SimplyMe

i liked French it was just so flipping much material!!!!
AUGH! TOO MUCH!
Cleo

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7/14/2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by the Spiffy luvdogs07

Thanks for the comment! =)

Our VBS doesn't start until the end of July, I'm going to help out there. Hopefully all will go smoothly.

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7/18/2008 - Hey SeeKay!

Posted by the Spiffy Gratitude

Hey, long time no talk!!
Sounds like you all had a blast!!
The trip way home sounds eventful! lol
So, God protected y'all!! That is good.
Well, you summer seems like it will be WAY more eventful than mine!! hehe
ttyl

God Bless,
Mandie

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7/19/2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by the Spiffy SimplyMe

Sorta VERY! I swear I am not encouraging it, but I can't help but feel that their mothers are going to suddenly accuse me of stealing their precious babies innocence and call me nasty names and throw rocks at me. WHY WHY WHY!?!? I don't know how to deal with it!!! At least their polite unlike SOME of my brothers friends who are eleven and try to- be innapropriate. It's kind of amusing in a sick way.

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7/29/2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by the Spiffy actresssinger13

Yeah, I guess I kind of do want to move. I really don't have any friends up here.. we sort of grew apart... all my friends and me... Thanks! lol...
p.s. thanks for the comment. it kind of brightened my day, because no one comments me anymore.

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9/5/2008 - hey!

Posted by the Spiffy Rachsters

I have to ask...
(cause I'm a curious girl)
Why is my username a different color in your list of friends?

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9/23/2008 - hey!

Posted by the Spiffy Rachsters

How do you make it where just your words move and your side bar but NOT your background. Like where you can scroll through the words and have the same background???????

~Eowyn

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1/5/2009 - hello

Posted by the Spiffy Jumbie

hiya ur blog is realy cool, be our friend? we new.
thx

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