Wednesday Night

Last wednesday night was one of the best evenings I've spent here. As always, wednesday night is church night - Including choir practice. Now, that we've got summer break, the services on wednesday kinda stopped, but we're still meeting to play games and do some stuff. The game on wednesday was the best game ever.
We were seperated into groups of four people plus one driver. In my group there was Logan, Ashley and another random guy. A woman drove us.
So they gave us one single dollar. The task for every group was to trade the dollar for something else, and trade whatever we get then and in one hour get the best thing we were able to get. We were not allowed to ask somebody we know. The reward was a coupon for an ice-cream store. The group with the best thing wins.
So when we first went out, we had like no clue where to go. We just went into the car and drove around first because nobody had an idea. Then we stopped at a restaurant. Ashley and Logan went inside to ask somebody. When they got out they had a package of tissues a lady gave them. So after that we didn't know where to go again. I had the idea to just go to Walmart and ask random people. So that's where we were heading. When we parked, we saw a man (- a redneck by the way) putting a water melon into his car. Logan was shouting "Laraaa! Ask him! Now!" So I was kinda hurrying out, I almost fell in front of his feet and he was like: "Wow, young lady." So I explained to him: "We need to trade this packet of tissues with something somebody else has. It's a church challenge."
"I know you!", he said. "No, you don't." I answered. "Wait... Where are you from?" "Well, from church right now, and we got to get this going, so.." "Well! I'm not giving you the water melen ( :c ) but I can give you half full packet of gum!" So he gave it to us. Even the packet was broke... Seemed like it was going worse, and worse... Then we went into Walmart. First we were hoping in front of the building there would be people who give puppies away for free - But we got disappointed.. ;)There were Walmart-Workers though who would have given us their work-schedule but we decided not to make this trade.
So inside, we were walking around and I was like: "We should ask old people. Old people are THE best." So there was an older lady and I was just going up to her, and explained the whole story to her. She traded the gum with a strawberry-pretzel candybar. From there we went to a restaurant. Logan and I got in to ask for maybe a Kids' Menu or something. So we went in, but nobody came to help us, so we went out. When we went out the car was gone. After about two minutes they came back. They had picked up a broken umbrella... Didn't look very well for us. Then we stopped at Cracker Barrel, another country-cooking restaurant. Logan and Ashley went in and traded the candybar with kids menu... We only had about 20 minutes left and we still had to get back - This meant: One more stop and then we need to get back. We stopped at like a tank station or something like that.. And Ashley, Logan and me went inside. Nothing was going on in there. It was a bad situation for us. Suddenly the other boy in in our group came in and said: "Hey guys! We need the menu! There's a man who wants to trade it!" The woman who drove us around really found our final trade! Through the opened windows of the car she was talking to a man with piercings literally everywhere! The little boy in the back was like: "They can have my cereals!" Hahaha! This man was the best! He gave us shears which were still in the packet!! He was the best!

Picture of my reaction haha :D

My present (: I don't know why I can't turn the picture, sorry.

We had ten minutes to get back and the car in front of us was driving super slow! We were the latest group and like two minutes too late.Then Todd (the youth minister) told us that every group has to choose one member to explain and commercialize their product in the best way possible. We chose Logan to do it. He's one of the best and funniest story tellers I know. There were only about three of seven groups that traded the whole entire time and didn't buy something with the dollar. So Logan explained everything. What has been really weird about this evening is that Todd mentioned we had to hurry up to get us to choir... Normally nobody would care. One of the choir ladies came in two times to tell Logan to hurry up. He's in he choir too. I really wondered why they cared so much this evening. So I we went with her the second time she came. When we got into the lobby every choir member was there - Not in the choir room, as usual. The choir lady was like "Surpriiiiise!" And I was like: "Ehm.. Well.. Thank you". I was so surprised I didn't even know what to say. Then she was like: "She's here everybody! Scream surprise!" Everybody screamed: "Surprise!!!". It was sooo cute! I just need to say that these people are the best people ever! They really care about you and are just so cute and funny. As a goodbye-present they had a card for me, and a magnet board. On the board they pinned a picture of the chair I'm sitting on during church service! Furthermore they had provided drinks, cookies and pancakes. I just love them, and I will miss them so much!! I can't even believe it. After that we just had a short practice. My last practice. Whitney couldn't be there because she had gotten her wisdom teeth pullen out in the morning, the poor one. Anyways, I just had a great evening which is worth to be mentioned!