well today was a pretty eventful day. scary and fun. Kenzi and the rest of the auditorium and back stage managers had orientation in the morning along with running around town in the big 15-passenger CIY van buying items needed such as rubber bats, sweatbands, old t-shirts, teddy bears... and by far the favorite purchase, the silk nighty. Don't ask what all of this is for. Emily was over at Memorial Hall with the other station managers setting up the merch booths for tonights preview show.

We got off work around 3:30 and had to be back at 5:30. Guess what we did in those 2 hours of free time? that's right, slept. It was so hard to get out of bed after that.

The preview was so awesome. The Jordan Howerton Band led worship--fantastic. There was a pretty good turn out as far as attendance goes. Afterwards we spent hours tearing down the set so that it could be packed up and sent on its tour later on. We were caught by surprise when our boss, Chase, told us that we had to leave because there was a big storm coming through. Then it was decided to wait it out for the next 20 minutes. Well... then the tornado sirens went off--sending Wesley into a panic because he claims "We don't have these in Cali!" Once we were finished tearing down we all ran through the rain (of course Em and Kenz held hands) and then went back to the dorms.

Everyone was STARVING so we decided to order pizza. We figured the delivery guy wouldn't mind driving through the monsoon too much. After many rounds of cards were played and an hour had passed, we all had our fill of pizza. You would have thought that we hadn't eaten in weeks. 4 pizzas gone in about 10 minutes. no joke. Chase is letting us come in an hour later in the morning. Knowing that and having full bellies, this makes us very happy. More packing tomorrow!