Midnight Madness

I must say, the excitement is never lacking on Metro nights when the Winthrop kids are involved.

See, once a month the Charlotte Metro Campus Crusades meet for a big meeting, with worship and a speaker, plenty of laughter and fellowship--good times. So, a big group of us head out to Charlotte for the meeting, having a good time, and whatnot and after the meeting is over, as usual hang out in the hallway for a bit. Coke bottles fly, Katie and I are about to brawl, there's dancing, jumping and the like, conversation, pizza, you know. Now the only logical step from this point is to head to Krispy Kreme as usual, so we did, but it being a Friday night and all and us all being college kids with nothing else better to do, we were not content to end the night there.

So, where do we decide to go from there? Good question, the answer is Toys-r-Us. Now normally they close at 9 and by this point it is definitely moving into the 11 o'clock hour, but apparently there was this event going on and we all (all 14) decided to go check it out.

As some of you may have known, that at 12:00 this morning, as in midnight between the first and second of April, there was a little event called Midnight Madness as the local Toys-r-Us in which the brand new Star Wars toys were going to be sold. Not an event I would normally frequent, I am not even much of a Star Wars fan, but we had nothing better to do. It turned out to be quite an experience. When we got there, there was already a line forming, and the whole squad of us made quite a crowd. Soon kids is costumes showed up, there were businessy people, girls, fathers and sons, people of what seemed to come from all different walks of life, all gathered in the name of Star Wars. How nice.

Since we arrived at 11:30ish we had some time to kill, which for an easily entertained group, was not much of a predicament. I was teaching some people how to waltz in the parking lot for some of the time. Other times we were just talking and laughing. It was good...then the magic hour came and we were all allowed to enter the store and behold the beauty.

Heh, there was no mad rush or fist fights or anything, but definitely a large crowd of people all searching frantically through the racks and boxes of action figures. It was incredibly entertaining, I must say, an experience to remember. You can check the pictures out below, us Cru kids know how to have some fun man!

Well, I could elaborate more I suppose, but I am quite tired now, so I am going to get some sleep.