Adventures of Night of Joy

Ok... its time to get caught up. The Mackey's have been busy the past couple of months. Weekends have been staying full--with lots going on. So lets start with the beginning of September (only 2 months ago)...
Stuart and I went to Night of Joy as chaperones with 50 students and around 30 adults (can you tell adults like this trip too?) After heading to Orlando early in the day, we spent the afternoon in the pool at the Nickelodeon Hotel (a very cool pool might I add) got ready and headed to Disney world. After taking the boat over to mouseland, and figuring out who was going to walk around with whom, Stuart and I and 3 young ladies ended up touring the town.
First we headed to thunder mountian railroad and then while we were waiting in line at Splash Mountian it began to rain... and rained it did. It rained and rained and rained and rained...you get the point...after eating dinner, we decided to head out into the wet drizell to the Barlow Girls concert (one of my favorite bands) and we listened to the last 20 minutes or so of their set. It was awesome!
Then we set off agian to Tommorrow Land to Buzz Lightyears Space Ranger's spin (see stuart at the spaceship helm) we drove the Grand Prix, and I think it finally stopped raining about this time. We did Dumbo, the tea cups, winnie the pooh, Mickey's PhilharMagic, some other fun rides (which I can't remember now) had ice cream sundaes took in a little of the Hawk Nelson Concer, and then last but not least we went to Pirates of the Carribean (where there was absolutely no line because it ws the end of the night) and Stuart tryed his hand at being a pirate.
After this we headed to see the last several minutes of the Kirk Franklin concert and then it was time to round up the group of very tired tourists, (aka the students and adults) after several counts with diffrent results, we did the old fashioned "every body line up single file" and count down method which ended up with a successful final number.
Then the weary travelers headed back to the hotel and the crazy Mackey's headed back to Tampa (yes at 2 am) afterall we had to get up and be at church bright and early later that morning. After 2.5 hours of sleep the Mackey's headed to church and made it through, needless to say there was a nap on Sunday afternoon. Was it fun? Yes! Was it a little crazy? Yes! Was it worth doing again? We will see what next year brings...