I didn't get any sleep last night and I just needed a break from life so what would you do at 2 in the morning plan a Christmas scavenger hunt in Bryan half way between your house and your Best friends for today. We meet at 3pm at the Mall to see Santa. First Mall Santa Payce had ever seen. Held out for Santa's Wonderland till the end just wasn't in the cards this year. The pictures I have of Santa are taken from my phone the CD copy I haven't downloaded on the computer just yet. The mall was packed it was sad no body smiling or having any Christmas spirit. I was thinking they should be so blessed to be able to buy gifts for themselves or others and not be second hand but people just seemed in a really bad mood. I loved our Santa pictures! Santa was very friendly and the Brzozozwski's took pictures with us too. Thomas had so much fun telling "Santa" what he wanted. He and I went to Buckle, Hollister and American Eagle. My kids loved sight seeing at the mall. Matt was very overwhelmed it has been years since all of us have been in the mall together. I wish I could afford everything on Thomas Wish list. I pray Plato's Closet has some designer clothes he would like.
We left the Mall and this is when the real fun started. Everyone got the same Christmas scavenger hunt list. Nicole, Me, KB, Payce and Carson made a team in one vehicle and Matt, Caleb, Baby Gavin, Landon and Thomas made another team. The requirements were at least two people on your team had to be in the picture and you only had two hours to complete and be at the Golden Corral by 6pm.
I can not express the fun and excitement we all had with event. I will give you the report from the girls team and Matt will blog tonight about the boys team. Girls team headed straight to Sonic for some sweet tea and soda's then to a few churches and Wal-Mart after running around not really finding anything. We made a mad dash to Target with stops on the way at cell phone company's and Dairy Queen both stores had Green, white and blue lights. Target was great knocked a lot of stuff off the list and my favorite part as we were leaving in front of the store our team started singing "We wish you a Merry Christmas" as loud as we could. Yelp flash mob style. People thought we were crazy but truly us together is crazy. The only thing left on our list was a Manger Scene and carolers. The old Navy commercials always looks so cheerful so we all ran in and ask shoppers to sing with us. I'm sure they thought they were being punked. Two different groups sung with us. Now the hunt was on for a Manger Scene you know the true meaning of Christmas. Pier one didn't have one and when we ask the cashier at World Market for one she had to call the manager over because she didn't know what I was talking out. REALLY?!?! The manager apologized, but they didn't have one either. We went through a whole tank of gas so glad gas dropped to $2.09. We did beat the boys to Golden Corral.
The journey of the boys team wrote by Matt. We left the girls and decided we would head straight to Wal-Mart and get all the pictures done in about 5 minutes. Needless to say Wal-Mart was sold out of almost everything. So then we run across the street to Lowe's knowing they would have what we needed. They ended up having a lot of the things we were looking for. We found a huge church and went inside right before the evening service was fixing to start and took our picture of the Nativity and the Christmas Star. we only needed five more items and figured that the girls would throw a fit if we didn't get some pictures in people's yards. So we headed into different subdivisions looking for what we needed. We would knock on people's doors and ask if we could take pictures with the items we needed. Everyone was so nice and let us take our pictures. We were finished with everything with 45 minutes left except for one and we drove around and drove around looking for it. Finally with 10 minutes left to be at the restaurant we ran into a Family Dollar and found a box that said "NOEL" got the picture and drove as fast as we could to get there on time. Got there a little but the Boys beat the Girls really bad on the scavenger hunt because "Boys rule and Girls drool".
When we all got to the Golden Corral we were all loud with excitement. It felt like we were the only ones there like the world had stopped and God smiled down on us for two hours and let our families bond. I have never seen Matt laugh so hard in years. We laughed till we cried and even sung the "Lion King" theme song a few Times. We did apologize to the manager once and she said "go right ahead laughing it is Christmas". We ate till we were sick. We all knew the night would have to end. As we made our way to the parking lot Nicole of course couldn't come empty handed she always has it together. She made Thomas his favorite cake balls, cupcakes and popcorn. As we are driving home I can't help but wipe tears out of my eyes. She is always up for my ideas and whenever we get together it is like we never moved. I love her and her family so much.
Red is still not back and Grace is just sitting praying we are all making the right choices.
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