Ha ha ha ha. Slovakia yard sale.

Friday and Saturday we had a big yard sale with TONS of people's stuff donated to sell, and all the money went towards us going to Slovakia. It was a busy two days pulling stuff out of the garage, putting it in some type of organized fashion, pricing things, haggling with people, putting it all back in the garage for the next day, and repeat. SO THANKFUL that it did not rain - it sprinkled, but not full on rain. Lots of prayer went into that. We had a team meeting on Saturday night to discuss more of the trip which was good, and then some of us went to Waffle House Fri night and then spent the night at the house we did the yard sale at. On Saturday after being up since 6 AM, I had to work 2-10 PM and was so tired. I got 11 hours of sleep last night which was must needed before working 2:30-10 today.

Amongst the hard work, sore arms and legs, and little sleep, there was a lot of laughing, bonding, and good times. After several years of praying for close friends again, I'm so glad to have found them and meet many over the past two years.

I would like to share some of the funny things that have happened recently simply because they were funny.

One older lady (probably in her 70's?) came to the yard sale and bought two bike helments for $1.50 for both. She said they were for her husband for the tornado. She needed two because his head was big, so she needed the straps from one to put on the other to make it longer. Apparently some people need helmets when a tornado comes? Now I know this sounds practical, but I can't imagine sitting in my house with a helmet on every time there is a tornado warning.

The people's house we had the yard sale at and have bible study at their house, Bryan and Lee Ann, have a 17 month old named Eva. She can't talk but says very few words. When babies or kids her age came to the yard sale, she was facinated by them. She would wave at them and want to look at them. One lady had this boy Eva's age in a stroller and Eva came up with her hand stretched out, and he was unsure what to do with that, so they just grabbed each other's hand like, "I can't speak to you, but I want to greet you somehow...." Then Eva proceeded to stroke the boy's cheeks, and then run her hand all over this mouth, nose, eyes, etc. before Lee Ann told her to stop. He didn't flinch or move or anything, he just seemed like, "Eh, whatever, I've got my toy dino, I'm good to go."

At Waffle House I joked with my friend Marissa, "It would be funny if the first food that waitress brings you say, 'That's mine' even if it's not and that person would think, 'Oh, we both got the same thing!' and then you would do that for the next food too and just take everybodys. Haha." After some of the food came out Marissa took a bite of her eggs and said, "Aw man, they forgot the cheese in it." She kept eating it though, and the next round of food that came out the lady called out the same thing but with cheese in it. Marissa said, "Oh.... that's mine....so whose is this?" One of the other guys, David, said, "Oh then I guess that's mine!" So he only got half of his eggs!

There was a golfball in a snowglobe looking thing, and you had to get the ball to sit on the golf tee, but since there was water in it nobody could do it. Everybody tried it and I didn't like it because it got on my nerves. One of the guys Travis continued trying and got it in a pretty good amount of time. Pictures were taken to prove he actually got it, and Travis said he was the only one who could do it. Others tried after him but couldn't. Then another guy dropped the ball on the driveway and the glass shattered. Turns out Travis really was the only one who would get it, ever again!