Pleasant Surprise

I had some training today for a new census operation--yay, more income!--though it sadly only lasted 3 hours. All we did was re-read the same material we'd been trained on for the previous operation, and write in a few changes. Kinda silly. And to think, they'd scheduled us for 8 hours! That would've been extremely tedious. Bleh.

As it was, I had a free day when I wasn't expecting it, so I was able to accept an invitation to join some friends at Boondocks (the local go-karts/arcade/fun zone thingy place). I was invited by Dave, a friend, who'd been invited by Kassie, whom I'd only known in passing before. Kassie had a friend from the mission in town, visiting from Australia, and she wanted to show him some of the fun things we do when we're bored around here. So that was fun. I got to hang out with a real Aussie ;) plus get to know another ward member better. We raced on the Go-Karts, and I totally came up from behind and passed everybody at least once. :D I've gotta give credit to Kyle, who taught me all the tricks I know. (That one other time I went to Boondocks. Really, it's one trick. ;) )

After Boondocks we stopped by the ward activity that had been going on and that we'd pretty much missed (oops) because we were having too much fun. :) (I also got 2nd place in mini golf, and 3rd in Laser Tag. :D ) That was at the park, where we played on the swings and played a lot of random catch with the bouncy-ball I got with my tickets from the arcade. And after that, I took Dave home because he had class in the morning; Kassie added another new friend to the bunch, and we (Kassie, Paul the Aussie, myself, and now Sonny) went to Denny's for a midnight snack. (at least, by the time the food actually got to us it was creeping up on midnight.)

So we hung out and had fun and I got to get to know some people I hadn't known before, and it was quite a fun day. I'm glad that census training didn't last as long as it was supposed to. I would've really missed out. :)