As I told you before, I volunteer with North Iowa- Youth For Christ. On this past Wednesday we got the chance to go to Valleyfair with students. It was totally awesome! I got to bond with the 3 students I was in charge of. We went on nearly all the rides. I couldn't have asked for a better day. Until we got back to the bus.
We were all sitting there. Nick had gotten us pizza from Little Ceaser's. We had it all eaten. And when Paul went to start the bus.. it didn't. It just wouldn't start. Great. For about an hour they sat trying to figure out why it wouldn't start. Couldn't figure it out. In the mean time the 50 or so kids we had were getting extremely antsy. So we let them off the bus and kinda play in the parking lot-within our sight of course.
Eventually Nick and Paul made a decision. We were gonna get a hotel and call some people to come pick everybody up in the morning. Great. We were gonna spend the night in stinky clothes with stinky middle schoolers.
So we started the tedious task of getting kids to the hotel. 6 at a time in the van we had brought with. In the mean time, we had cranky kids fighting with each other, and not listening to us. That was fun.
A couple hours passed and we had one load of kids/leaders left to go to the hotel, and the rest were going home that night. I had ventured to throw some garbage away. I got about halfway to the garbage can when I heard a noise. I still couldn't tell you if I'm happy I heard it, or extremely sad. It was the bus. Apparently some security thing on the bus was triggered and made it so the bus wouldn't start.
With the bus working we got the rest of us to the hotel to sleep in a disgusting clothes. We got to bed about 1, woke up at 7:30, had breakfast, and we were on our way. We got home about 12:30.
What was supposed to be a 12 hour trip turned into a 27 hour trip.
But through it all, God was with us. We have this experience none of us will forget. And we even got to bond with some amazing kids. It definitely was an exciting, yet terrible, day.
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