What We Did This Weekend:
Saturday in the xB
As is usually the case on our Temple weekends, the trip is basically the story. Since Brookie's Young Women had a tri-stake dance that night, we had to leave extra early to allow enough time to get to St. Louis and back and then give rides to the dance in Warrensburg, MO. We left home at 5:45am. We were half way to St. Louie before the sun came up. We made it in time for the 9:45 session, which left us with ample time for a good lunch afterward. And, because will filled up for $2.09 on Friday, we could fit a nice lunch at the Spaghetti Factory into our Temple Trip budget.
From lunch, we drove straight to our stake center to rendezvous with the youth to haul them to Warrensburg (45 minutes East) for the dance. Since we have the coolest car (no contest really), we had three Young Men begging us for a ride.
The dance was so crowded. Seriously, it was like a can of adolescent Mormon sardines, packed in sweat. Three stakes worth of kids (and all of the leaders needed for supervision and/or transportation) stuck in a small-to-medium sized building is a recipe for fun, fun, fun. If I remember right, there were 13 youth and eight adults from our ward in attendance. None of us adults knew who was in charge or what they wanted us to do. So we found a foyer and made sure no one left through that exit. We mostly just talked though. The Whitney's went to Wendy's and picked up some food for us all when we learned that the the provided dinner consisted of roasting our own hotdogs outside in the parking lot (and no one was too excited about smelling like a campfire after dinner).
Brooke heard Cotton-Eyed Joe playing and we went in to dance it. But we learned that if you don't do something for more than four years, you tend to forget how to do it. We had forgotten everything about the dance we learned together at BYU. And it didn't help that no one else in the gym really knew it either.
It was a super-busy weekend, but we still found time for a couple of movies on Friday. Corpse Bride (2005) is a great show. The stop-motion animation is tremendous, and the writing is very clever. Love that show. Later that night we watched Disney's The Haunted Mansion (2003). It was the second Disneyland ride-based film of 2003, preceded by Pirates of the Caribbean (personally, I'm still waiting for the "It's a Small World" movie). Entertaining enough, the funnest part about it is recognizing the homages paid to the actual ride. My favorite is the hitch hiking ghosts.
At any rate. That's what we did this weekend.
From lunch, we drove straight to our stake center to rendezvous with the youth to haul them to Warrensburg (45 minutes East) for the dance. Since we have the coolest car (no contest really), we had three Young Men begging us for a ride.
The dance was so crowded. Seriously, it was like a can of adolescent Mormon sardines, packed in sweat. Three stakes worth of kids (and all of the leaders needed for supervision and/or transportation) stuck in a small-to-medium sized building is a recipe for fun, fun, fun. If I remember right, there were 13 youth and eight adults from our ward in attendance. None of us adults knew who was in charge or what they wanted us to do. So we found a foyer and made sure no one left through that exit. We mostly just talked though. The Whitney's went to Wendy's and picked up some food for us all when we learned that the the provided dinner consisted of roasting our own hotdogs outside in the parking lot (and no one was too excited about smelling like a campfire after dinner).
Brooke heard Cotton-Eyed Joe playing and we went in to dance it. But we learned that if you don't do something for more than four years, you tend to forget how to do it. We had forgotten everything about the dance we learned together at BYU. And it didn't help that no one else in the gym really knew it either.
It was a super-busy weekend, but we still found time for a couple of movies on Friday. Corpse Bride (2005) is a great show. The stop-motion animation is tremendous, and the writing is very clever. Love that show. Later that night we watched Disney's The Haunted Mansion (2003). It was the second Disneyland ride-based film of 2003, preceded by Pirates of the Caribbean (personally, I'm still waiting for the "It's a Small World" movie). Entertaining enough, the funnest part about it is recognizing the homages paid to the actual ride. My favorite is the hitch hiking ghosts.
At any rate. That's what we did this weekend.
I love the Corpse Bride! In fact, I think that is what my costume will be for Halloween....
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