Vamos A La Playa!!

So we finally hit up the beach yesterday and today!! It was about time! We had to cut the beach time short yesterday since we had to come back and work from 3 - 7! But we got a whole lot done. We might possibly get Friday off now. I'll post pictures up soon so everyone can admire our hard work :) . All week long we've been "thinking snow" (the theme this year is arctic edge) which is rather difficult when you are less than 5 minutes away from the beach. That's one thing that is different from last summer too. Last summer we were doing beach reaches 2 or 3 times a week, so we constantly saw the beach. This summer we can only go at night or on the weekends. Bummer. So here's a good story. There's this new place opening up here called "the wharf". It's got a rave theater, an ampitheatre, shops, a ferris wheel, etc. Well Wednesday night a lady in the church gave us tickets to ride the ferris wheel for free on the grand opening (Thursday night @ 5). But all along we kept hearing that it was free to the public the first night, so we just assumed it was just a ticket to get in, no big deal. Well we ended up working until like 9 or 10 Thursday night and never really thought much about it. Well at dinner Bro. John walked in and asked why we weren't there. Turns out, our tickets were $250 tickets to ride the very first ride of the ferris wheel ever! Its the biggest ferris wheel in the southeast and they had been auctioning off tickets and it was a really big deal. A lady at the church had bought enough tickets for one gondala and spent $2,500 on all 10 seats! And we had 5 of them and didn't show up!! Needless to say, we felt horrible and were really sad we missed out!! Sad day. But on Friday all the rest of the summer missionaries arrived. There are 9 girls now and 5 guys. They are great, and they are going to have an awesome summer together!! It really makes me miss the girls in our group last year. Kala left today with the rest of our family (excluding mom and dad) to go to Destin for our annual family vacation. I'm sad we're missing out this year. It's always so much fun. Well I guess thats about it for now, I'm sure these entries are all really boring to everyone except for maybe my mom. I'm making her read this so she will know what we are doing, since our phones dont work very good down here.