kites

This weekend was glorious.

Friday night met with k group leaders to talk about life, loving Jesus, and how we can be better leaders to those in our small groups and eat home made pizza and drink a glass of white merlot. :o)

Saturday early got up to go to the REI garage sale, which is a members only sale. So here is how it works if you ever buy anything at REI (which mind you if you live in CO you should be a member here because it is the best outdoor store and if you live in CO you are always outdoors) it is the best idea to join. You pay $20 once and you are a member for life, you get a dividend check back at the end of each year of what you spent there each year. So every quarter REI puts on a garage sale of which the items are everything that has been returned. Some for simple reasons such as I did not like the color so there is nothing wrong with the returned item.

So people used to spend the night to be the first in line for the garage sale, however REI did not like that so much so now they have three lines and the lines get picked at random of which one goes first. My group and I all were there early so we were the first ones in line.

So we brought bagels and coffee and waited two hours in line on a cold morning to get severly discounted outdoor items.

I got:
- pair of snow shoes
- North Face Fleece
- Helly Hansen Fleece
- Outdoor Research Down Jacket
- Merell hiking boots
- pair of Super Feet insoles

All for a very good price!

Then I got to fly a kite two times this weekend. Random but fun! It was great to feel like a kid and not worry about what other people were thinking just to fly a kite. I even sang the Mary Poppins song :o)