SuperWow 2004 – Saturday and Sunday
Okay, so here it is, what you’ve been waiting for…all two of you. The rundown of my week at SuperWow. Not everything will be included because, well, I can’t remember EVERYTHING.
Saturday morning at 7 am we met at the church to head down to Jekyll Island. There were about 40 of us, give or take a few. We began the long, and I do mean LONG, drive down to the island. We arrived at our destination somewhere between 9 and 12 hours later. I’m really not sure. We had four houses, one each for the Buffalo guys and girls, and one each for the New Blackwell/Cherokee Hills guys and girls. After we got settled into our houses, we had a little powwow meeting and supper, and then everyone went back to the houses and went sleepy. Sunday morning we had a small church service at the girls’ house. Krusty and myself led worship, and Dad did a small message about love. Sunday afternoon we hit the local mall, where me, Krusty, and our new boy Justin Carroll hit PACSUN and picked up some killer belt buckles. Justin and myself were rockin’ the sheriff’s star buckles while Krusty (ever the different fellow) had to pick up the welcome to Vegas sign buckle. I mentioned to the guys that I had an awesome Wal-Mart shirt that would really kick the western look into gear…so those two rich guys decided to pick one up at American Eagle. We figured we’d go into the first service on Monday night in style. Sunday night we had a talent show….I didn’t enter, b/c I figured these people are gonna hear me play my guitar and sing every night this week. So instead, I played the part of Simon Cowl, insulting everyone even if they WERE good. And THAT was fun. My mom, and two other youth group mothers got together and sang “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” We started calling them the Golden Girls. The stakes were high for this shindig, as the winner would get to eat FIRST for the whole week, at every meal. This is a big deal on our trips…when you got 40somethin people getting to eat first is ALWAYS a big deal. The Golden Girls won it…no matter how disturbed myself and the other two sons of the Golden Girls were. After all this, we headed back to our houses to hit the sack.
I’m gonna go ahead and post this now, to split the days up into separate posts. That way it won’t be another two weeks before you all see something
the Sage said,
July 30th, 2004 at 1:33 pm
There is something about these short-term communal experiences that you never forget. Glad it meant so much to you.