Life has been busy and great

Well, it's been a bit since I last updated, but fear not, I have not died nor have I gotten sick again!

Last Friday we had 19 youth-- yes, 19 youth! The kids are inviting their friends and their friends are inviting friends, and it is just so much fun. The kids are getting fed a lot of truth, and they're loving it (though I don't really think they realize why they love to be in youth group... we know why!) I am looking forward to Friday. Should be fun.

On Monday, we took a little excursion to the zoo with everyone living at the WorldBase right now... The WorldBase is like a boarding house, where we have separate rooms (or share with the same sex) and common living areas. The boys live downstairs and the girls live upstairs... we have strict rules about it all! Right now there are three guys and two girls, and we have a blast together. Let's just say that we can't get through any dinner together without laughing our heads off like crazy.

Anyway, it was rainy and dreary and boring outside, which was a GREAT reason to go to the zoo. It was really a lot of fun because there was almost no one there, and the animals were really lonely, so everytime we came up to an exhibit they would just come out and do stuff for us... I have never, never ever liked monkeys before in my life, but I had to admit that they were really cute... but it's only because they were lonely! ha! It was quite funny -- five 20 year olds wandering through the zoo We then went to the mall and went shopping, shopping, shopping and then went to the grocery store for food. It was like we were this little family... LOL Tylene (the other girl) and I sent the guys home with the food, and we walked to the bathroom store to get some repair parts for our showers in the house. Let's just say we came home really cold and really wet because it was raining and windy and the bus we wanted to take never came... then when we finally got the bus from the mall we had to stop at the college and wait outside again for the bus that took us home. I was ecstatic to sit by the heater when we FINALLY got home.

But the highlight of the day was when we left the zoo to catch the bus to the mall, and at the last second we found free Norwegian gløgg at the reception desk to the zoo (it is like Norwegian Christmas cider). We all ran to grab some... but lo and behold the bus comes and we all had to run to the bus. Bryan was at the bus stop. I was not to far behind, realizing that we can't take the gløgg on the bus, so I frantically tried to drink as much as I could. I threw away my full cup of gløgg, so I could get on the bus. Then Tylene and Andy come running behind. Tylene gets only one sip of gløgg before throwing it away. Andy in a desperate act of trying to finish his gløgg tips his head back and tries to drink it all, and it spills all over his face.

And the best part... the bus didn't leave for another four minutes! LOL Joke was on us...

Talk to you all soon! Leave comments!