Youth July Transformers 2 Excursion

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OK! So... I'd better hurry up and write about this last Youth Excursion... before I totally forget about it -..- So, we uh... we really left very late in comparision to what we had said. We had wanted to originally leave around 9:30ish... but then we realized Lamarr would be at camp, so we'd have to wait for him. Bro. Sam assured us that he'd be back with Lamarr around 10:30, so we decided to wait.

Alicia showed up at my house around 10ish, with a light headach. I gave her some aleve and it helped after a while. We left to pick up Takara and Timmy (aka Penny, because that's never gonna get old) around 10:15.... we got to the church around 10:45... and no one showed up until about 11:30 >..> Yeah... so we were sitting at the hot church for a while waiting. But the church van pulled up with Lamarr, and no sooner had Bro. Sam parked than Billy, Jesse and Julian showed up with Buddy in tow. >..< We were less than thrilled for having Buddy with us as he is the most obnoxious teenage boy I've yet to meet, but we bore it well I think.

So yeah, we got on the road, and most of the kids had actually brought CD players and such, so we let them entertain themselves... that didn't stop them from driving us nuts, as Budy and Jesse found much pleasure in singing Jason Mraz's I'm Yours... over and over and over again. I swear, they sang it about 5 times on the way up and probably as many times on the way back. I used to like Mr. Mraz's music... Now, I really don't care if I get his CDs any time soon =..= Thanks a lot, boys.

Anyway.... Alicia had a gift card to Staples... and it was going to expire at the end of the month... so we had already decided to go there first. At first everyone was kinda annoyed because they figured, office store=nothing to do for them. But... then they got all jazzed about the office chairs and started playing on the laptops and such. I've no idea what Alicia got since I was in charge of wrangling the kids while she shopped (how the heck did she talk me into that? Gosh I'm too nice), and I was the lucky one who found a laptop with internet connection... I tested it by checking my FaceBook :D I probably should've put 'wrangling teenagers in Staples' in my update box but oh well.

After they played some games on the laptops and Alicia got what she wanted, we headed over to Applebee's, because somehow we'd all gotten hungry o..o' So, we waited for about 15 minutes at Applebee's and they finally seated us. We had all decided to do the 2 meals for $20. Not surprisingly, all the boys (plus Alicia) got their fire pit bacon burger. Takara tried the 3 chees chicken pene that I had tried before, and I got the double crunch shrimp. There were 2 orders of the mild buffalo wings and 2 orders of mozerella sticks too... We made short work of our food, though it took a lot to eat as much as we did. Since we couldn't afford to get a full dessert, we told them they could get those dessert shooters. Seriously, some of these kids were so sheltered... a few couldn't tell the difference between what was alcoholic and what wasn't o..o it was ammusing.

It was around 1:45 then, and we decided to head on over to the landing and just walk it off and shop at stores and such. Alicia and I both got Takara's cell and Buddy's cell so that we could stay in touch at all times. My first text to Billy was, "I will eat your unhappyness!! ... we're going to walk the landing, so text us if you need us :)" ^..^

Naturally, the boys wanted to go off on their own, so we went with T to Hot Topic first (she was positively gagging to see all the New Moon stuff :D). We killed time there, and I really wanted to buy a Slytherin shirt... or maybe something from their Charlie the Unicorn collection, but we saw that they had Transformers gear too, so I was all over that. I got myself an old-school G1 Optimus Prime girl shirt :3 I wub it. After Hot Topic, we went to the restroom (and I changed my shirt while I went), then we went to a store called Justice (just for girls). T seemed to enjoy that store, but she couldn't really afford anything... but we still spent about an hour looking at stuff there. Then... we went to one of my favorite places ^..^ Earthbound Trading Company. They have tons of different things and I just love to look around. There was this lovely dress that I wanted so bad. of course, it was $36 and I couldn't see wearing it anywhere but around my house... so I resisted that temptation... didn't stop me from staring at it longingly every time I passed by. But we took our time walking around and looking at the stuff in there.

It became very apparent that we perhaps hadn't thought this through well. It was perhaps the hottest day of the week, we had several hours before we had to leave (we'd agreed to meet at 7:30 at Bass Pro to leave), and we were wearing black. Not to mention my syatica was really starting to hurt and Alicia's not really built for walking much with her knee and all. So we texted the boys and asked if they wanted to head to Books-A-Million because we certainly wanted the comforts of AC. We ended up waiting for them all to gather around Bass Pro and asked if they wanted to head to B-A-M early. They relented, and we learned that the boys met up with another friend of theirs (Heath) while they were walking. So, we told them that B-A-M was between Best Buy and Petco, and they pretty much agreed to go. Heath had come in his own car, so he followed us out.

Books-A-Million was nice and refreshing. We sat, I found volume 1 of Skip Beat and just read it. Takara and Alicia were around reading too, but we were all quiet and just enjoying our books and the AC. The boys had split up and gone into Best Buy and Petco... but Buddy kept coming and bothering us. He say's to Alicia, "I've always wanted one.." and I responded with "A personality?" and he says, "No! A python! Can I buy one and bring it home?" ... Alicia and I pretty much said "No." at the same time =..= Good Lord. Go and ask your Dad that first because ultimately, he's going to be the one that has to put up with it. He went off after that and left us alone. But closer to 7, I decided to get a drink from Joe Mug or whatever that place in there is called. I got a caramel Frappe, and it was awesome :D Heath and Billy joined us (for reasons still unknown) and Heath asked if it was good... so I let him taste it and he liked it so he got one himself. He sat it down on a table and went to get a straw, so I snatched it up and hid behind a mug display :D and He looked over at Billy like "ok... who took it?" and I couldn't help but laugh like Muttly so I gave him his drink back. But it wasn't long till we had to head back to the van and make tracks to the Imax :)

So... Buddy and Billy decided they wanted to ride with Heath... which was fine with us really. So, we made our way over there... and about a half mile away from the place, I noticed Heath pull over. We didn't really think anything of it... but then when we got there, I went and bought another ticket (we'd bought 9 originally for the showing earlier that day that way we'd have our tickets, but with Heath joining us, we knew he'd need one too). I texted Billy to ask if they'd gotten lost or something. He said they were going to jail O..O' So, I asked if he was serious and he asked if we'd bail him out. I responded with 'No! I'll sell your ticket!' So he said that he wasn't kidding and that Heath had been caught with stolen goods >..>' Heath? White-bread Heath? Stolen goods? I think not. I called him and said if they weren't there in 5 minutes, we'd sell their tickets. Aaaand it was then that they walked up. It was funny though, because I closed my phone, and Billy (who's standing right behind me now) says, "Hey... she hung up on me!" and Jesse who's sitting right in front of me says, "Dude... she's sitting right there." Billy followed that up with 'oh'.

I gave Heath his ticket and I went to stand in line. The kids all went and got their on concessions and such while I held their space. Now, I should mention that it was around 8ish now. The line had already started to form too, one wrong of the maze was already full. We had been told to get there around 8:15, because that's when seating would start. ........ We waited in line until 8:57 -..- The boys were upset about that mostly, though Alicia and I had more reason to be as we were hurting from standing so much >..< But finally, we got in. We all dispursed, Lamarr found a seat at the very top, Alicia and I were perhaps 10 seats away from him, and everyone else was more towards the center. We could very easily look down and see them. They seemed very content to play games with another group of much yonger kids that had sat nearby.

Around 9 the lights dimmed....and the sound started...but there was no picture >..> The projectionist (Jerry) had to restart the projectioner (a process that takes roughly 30 minutes)... So, our kids entertained themselves by playing audacious games of rock-paper-scissors (which mad much more than just the three mentioned in the game such as dinomite and volcano) doing the wave (and many people joined in) playing Marco Polo with the kids near them, aaaand stomping/claping out the tune to 'we will rock you'. Finally, at 9:37, the previews started. Now, this is Transformers 2, and it's really awesome. But it's also 2 and a half hours long. When it was finally over at 11:58, I flet like the hem of my jeans had been burned into my legs =..=

We gathered the kids up and got them in the van. It took us a while to get back to the church, and then Alicia and I got in my car and took Timmy, Takara and Lamarr home. Then, since she'd left her car at my place, I took Alicia to my place where she left. It was 1:32 when I got home. I showered really quickly and hit the sack around 2 am. I have to say, it's the first time in a long time that my alarm clock/cell phone has woken me up! I always wake up at least 30 minutes before it's about to go off, and this time I was conked out and snoozing when it went off... which caused a "huh,wha,heeey!" reaction.

This has been my account for the July Transformers 2 Youth Excursion :) I hope it's been entertaining. I have posted what few pics I took up to FaceBook, if you wanna look at 'em. Now... I should probably eat before I head off to church. I'll type later, Sunshines.

 

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 Das Twitter Activity

 
• 09:42 AM Jul 11th: Going over everything one last time to make sure I haven't forgotten anything.


• 10:14 AM Jul 11th: Picking up T and Penny.


• 11:56 AM Jul 11th: Ok! We're almost there. In attendance: Billy, Buddy, Timmy, Jesse, Julian, Takara, and Lamarr.


• 12:22 PM Jul 11th: The kids were bummed about going to Staples, but the seemed to enjoy themselves.


• 12:59 PM Jul 11th: Ok! We're at Applebee's :)


• 02:19 PM Jul 11th: We're stuffed! Now we're headed to the landing to walk it off -..-


• 03:09 PM Jul 11th: Got an Optimus Prime shirt at Hot Topic :)


• 05:11 PM Jul 11th: I really don't think having 6 hours to walk the Landing was a good plan ~..~


• 05:45 PM Jul 11th: Cooling off in the van.


• 05:47 PM Jul 11th: Ok! On our way to books a million.


• 06:08 PM Jul 11th: At B-A-M, and thank God for AC. Oh... I'm gonna investigate Skip Beat while I'm here.


• 07:07 PM Jul 11th: Ohh... Frappes...


• 07:34 PM Jul 11th: On our way to the Imax!


• 08:01 PM Jul 11th: Standing in line. The boys almost scared us >..>


• 08:33 PM Jul 11th: ...still standing in line -..-


• 08:57 PM Jul 11th: Finally! We're seated!


• 09:11 PM Jul 11th: Waiting for Jerry the projectionist to figure out what he did wrong...


• 09:25 PM Jul 11th: The boys are doing the wave o..o


• 09:29 PM Jul 11th: ... Now, they seem to be playing marco pollo...oh and the we will rock you theme..


• 09:37 PM Jul 11th: Movie's starting!


• 11:58 PM Jul 11th: Well, s'over.


• 12:13 AM Jul 12th: Ok. On our way home ...er, to the church.


• 01:32 AM Jul 12th: Home =..=

 

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