Friday. 5am wake-up call. But not really.
I had every intention of waking up at 5am this morning. I even considered pulling an all-nighter since I had been getting to bed late every night and the few hours of sleep that I would get just wouldn't be worth it. I did decide to go to bed, though, and that was my first mistake.
Instead of getting up at 5am with Emily to see the first church off, I slept right through my alarm and woke up around 7am. I felt pretty bad. Fortunately for me, Emily had the kitchen key, so she was able to get the key to the dorms from the kitchen, and I wasn't needed this morning.
When I woke up, I started checking the bathrooms/ showers to see if anything had been touched. It didn't look promising. I went over to the cafeteria where SSEFC was loading up, and on my way over, I asked a gentleman from one of the churches that was supposed to be cleaning the bathrooms if he could get some guys to do that quickly. He didn't say much.
I hung out by SSEFC's bus for a while, because I wanted to make sure I said bye to my brother and sister who had come out for the week. I said quite a few good-bye's to my siblings, friends, the kitchen crew, and the Cayton's as bus and individual vehicles slowly pulled away. Our last good-bye's were said to Lauren and John, then it was time to get started.
By this time, all of the other churches had left as well, so we needed to go through the dorms and make sure everything was clean before we moved back into our house. I checked the bathroom one more time to find that the cleaning hadn't been finished. Annoying. I checked the showers and there wasn't much to see there. I can only assume those had been cleaned by the last church. Next year we need a check-out process.
So I needed to finish cleaning my stuff out of the intern room, clean the bathrooms, and make sure everything else was in order, before we returned the keys. I moved out of the intern room pretty quickly. We were all so excited to be back in our house. Dorm life is fun, but nothing beats having your own house to live in.
After I moved my stuff over to the house, I started scrubbing the sinks that were left unfinished. It didn't take long, but I was still disappointed that leaders and students alike failed to finish the job like they were asked. You live and you learn, I guess.
While I was scrubbing the last couple sinks, Emily and Laura were kind enough to help me wipe down the toilets, since everything was cleaned much better on the girls side. When we were done, it was time to go over to the cafeteria to start moving the extra food from the week to our house, so we could figure out what to do with it.
There was a lot of left over food-- one of the beautiful things of LJ Week. We probably won't have to go grocery shopping for a long time, because by the time we were done, we had a packed fridge, boxes upon boxes of food in the basement, and there was still food left over in the fridge and freezer at the school. Pretty awesome.
Once we were done moving everything, I called Greg, Sarah, and Emily to see if they needed any food. Sarah and Emily are both going to be pretty busy the rest of the summer and they will be doing a lot of moving around, so both of them say they don't need anything, but Greg was definitely interested. Greg came over to grab some brunch, then we ran a couple errands (his errands, but I went with because he hates driving alone), and we ended up finishing clearing the fridge by mid-afternoon.
After we finished at the school, I came back to try to work on my blog a little bit, but since I had gotten so little sleep the night before, my body just shut down. I ended up sleeping for a couple hours, before everybody decided to go to Restaurant in White River.
Dinner was great! I had never been to Restaurant before, but Stephen had told me that it was pretty reasonably priced and you got a good amount of food for what you payed. I would say everything lived up to what I had been told.
Now that dinner was out of the way, it was time to blow some stuff up. Sometime this past week, Greg and I had found a bowling ball that I decided we should blow up. I don't remember if I blogged about it or not, but it was a pretty big moment in my life. I had been anticipating this night all week, but Greg forgot the bowling ball.
So I had to drive back to Mission to get the bowling ball, which worked out well, because the girls had slept through dinner and they wanted to come out to Greg's too. We picked up the bowling ball and the girls, then we headed back up to Greg's house. When we got there, they were already shooting at stuff, so I had the opportunity to shoot an AR-15 (a civilian assault rifle, similar to the M-16). That was pretty sweet.
After we played around with the AR-15 for a while, it was time to drill the bowling ball and fill it with tannerite. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Tannerite, it is a completely legal impact explosive made from ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder that can be found at some local hardware stores or online. It's not something we made ourselves and the mixture will only explode using a high powered rifle round, thereby, increasing the safety of the explosive.
Once the ball was filled with Tannerite, Greg put the ball on an H-brace and started firing at it with his AR-15. That didn't work so well because his scope wasn't zeroed in, so basically he kept taking chunks out of the bowling ball, but no explosions. Time for the .30-06.
Greg took one shot with his .30-06 and the bowling ball just disintegrated. We didn't even see an explosion! It was there one minute, then it was gone. That was exactly what I was hoping for. So cool. And what was even cooler was the fact that Laura was there to catch everything on her Canon T3, so we were able to watch a frame by frame of the ball blowing up. Pretty sick.
So blowing up the the bowling ball was everything everybody was hoping for, but we just couldn't stop there. Daniel had some fireworks with him, so we just couldn't help but play with those as well. Bottle rockets and a couple artillery shells made for a good rest of the night.
Just as we were finishing up, a storm started rolling in. Craziest lighting I have ever seen. I'm pretty sure we could see it striking the ground in the distance. Unfortunately, Greg had left his compressor at Anne Moran's house so we had to rush out there to throw a tarp over it. We made it well before the storm came through, and we didn't see any damage from the storm when it passed over, so it was a pretty cool storm to watch.
We finished out the night by watching a movie, and everybody was more than ready for bed by the end of that.
Until tomorrow,
Brenden
Things I learned today:
1. A bowling ball is made mostly of cork.
2. Any time you can combine guns and an explosion, you're bound to have a good time.
3. James 2:26
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