WoL Superbowl

I just had the coolest night ever! ^_^

My youth group and I went to Providence, RI for the Word of Life Superbowl event. Basically, it's an all-night party, from 6PM to 6AM, with a bunch of different events.

First, we went to a Providence Bruins hockey game, which was pretty cool. I like hockey, although, I have to admit, I prefer women's hockey, cause there's less fighting and more of a technical focus on the game. At least in my opinion.
Anyway, after the game was a rally, where they gave a short Gospel message, gave out a ton of prizes and stuff, and played a few games. Ben got to participate in a three-way tug-of-war. Didn't win, but he had a good time. :)

After all that stuff, which was over at midnight, we went to out first of two 3-hour activities, an "open gym". WoL had rented a huge sports complex and set up a bunch of different inflatable games and stuff, in addition to the 5 or so different courts/fields that were there. Let's see, there was a jousting arena, a Super Sumo thing (that was exhausting...), a mechanical bull (which I stayed on for 9 seconds!), and a couple other things. The soccer game that was going on though was pretty interesting. Well, it was more like "40 people trying to kill the ball toward the goal." It was a blast. ^_^
Oh, and I forgot to mention the free pizza and soda, heehee.

After the open gym we went roller-skating. I haven't done that in a looong time. Took me a little while to get used to it again, but once I did I wasn't too bad. Mickey on the other hand is a natural pro... :)
The skating place had a laser tag arena too. Aside from the kid on our team who insisted on being a jerk and team-killing, and the fact that the some of the equipment needs to be fixed, it was great. Mickey had only played once before, but she didn't know what to do that time cause nobody really explained it, so she was resistant to the idea of playing again. But I eventually convinced her, and she got the full brief, and she loved it. Always nice to have a convert. ^_^

So, yeah, by 5:30 we were all pretty much dead. Waited around till 6 for our other drivers to get there (None of us wanted to drive back home after staying up all night, which was probably a good idea.) So we (the leaders) got to ride back home in the back of Mom's LHS (leather seats, room to stretch a little, etc). Plus we got to see the sunrise. I haven't seen one of those in a long time...

We brought disposable cameras, so once the pictures from those come out, I'll post 'em, and you can all see what an AWESOME time we had!