crazy night

Dude...tonight was really crazy.

The beginning of my day was pretty normal. I went to the movies with Lucy and saw Prince Caspian again. It was just as good the second time as it was the first time. After that I had to go to the pool because my manager needed to talk to me about something. Then I went home and got ready for swim practice and was looking for my house key for a really long time but couldn't find it. I went to swim practice at 6 and then after swim practice came home and ate a quick supper then went back to the pool because I had to work a party.

After the party I was cleaning up and everything and it took a little longer than normal because Laura (the manager) wasn't there and it was me and this other girl who doesn't work at Sugar Creek...she was a sub. Anyway, she left and me and my dad were finishing up hosing off the deck and turning off the lights. Once we were finished I locked the gate and then I realized that I forgot to put the sign in book back in the guard room so I needed to unlock the gate again and go get it and put it back. I went to the lock box thing and put in the code, opened it up, and looked inside. No keys. You see, I thought there were 2 sets of keys. One for the lock box and one that hangs in the guard room but there's not. When you close you have to put the keys back in the lock box. So me and my dad were standing outside of the pool trying to figure out how on earth we were going to get back inside to get the keys. We waited for a while debating on whether we should jump the fence or not and my dad decided that he was going to but he needed to go home and get his tennis shoes. He had promised Amy that we would go to the gas station and get some candy before we went home so we decided to do that before we went and got his tennis shoes. After all of that we went back to the pool and my dad took his sweet time trying to figure out the safest way to jump the fence. He finally got in and gave me the keys so I went to get the books and put them in the guard room and then I realized I hadn't locked the gates at the top of the stairs so I went to do that.

When I got back down and we were about to leave a lady and a guy pulled up in their car. The lady got out and asked if we had seen a teenager who's name was Adam and kind of looked like Nacho Libre but skinnier...has kind of a mexican fro. (I swear. Those were her exact words.) I told her I couldn't remember if I had or not. And then she asked "wait, was this Julie's party?" and my dad said "No...this was a graduation party for a bunch of middle schoolers." After talking for a little bit my dad told the lady that we would ride up to Stony Creek and see if he was over there and she could go up to Woody Creek and if they found him there for them to just leave but if they didn't find him to wait there until we got back. So we rode up to Stony Creek and me and my dad were both praying on the way up there. We got there and it was locked down and dark. My dad said "There's nobody here. They've already locked up and shut down for the night." But then I noticed something moving and quickly realized it was a person. I told my dad to stop and he rolled down the window and said "Hey! Is your name Adam?" The guy said yeah...and then my dad explained our situation and offered to give him a ride up to Woody Creek because that's where his sister was waiting. So he got in and my dad asked if he was at a party here and Adam said "Yeah. I was one of the ones who got away". He was on the phone with someone named Emily. I'm guessing his girlfriend. From his phone conversation with her I gathered that there was an un-supervised party and there were drugs and alcohol there and the cops were looking for a bunch of people. He said that he didn't do any of it because when him and his friends saw what was going on they went over to some girls house. He ended his conversation with Emily by saying "I'm gonna be in so much trouble. This is like, the worst possible way to start a summer". When he was off the phone my dad said he hoped he wasn't gonna be in too much trouble and he said "Nah...I shouldn't be. I wasn't one of the ones drinking or smoking. Even if the cops found me they'd give me a test or whatever and the most I'd get charged for would be attending a party with available drugs and alcohol." We got to Woody Creek and dropped him off with his sister. She was really happy to see him. She was definitely worried sick.

So after that me and my dad were talking about how amazing it is that everything that happened tonight happened. It's all God's providence. What in the world would cause us to be out at Sugar Creek at 12:30 AM? All that sequence of events before meeting that lady happened at the right time and came together perfectly. If we'd have been a minute later we'd have missed Adam in the parking lot because he would have already crossed the road and gone away and who knows what could have happened to him. God really is amazing. Dad thinks Adam was definitely on something...but that's another story.

When we got home Jay and Lydia were sitting on the trunk of Lydia's car and were like 'Dude! You just missed like, a 2 hour long car chase. There were all these cops and speeding cars going all around here" And then we told him our story. Then Jay looked and Lydia and was like "Whoa! That was probably that guy we saw!" And then I was like "Was he wearing a black AC DC shirt and had a mexican fro?" He said no and said that the guy they saw was running up the street and crossed through the bushes. Jay swore he was wearing boxers...but Lydia thinks they were probably gym shorts. So then we sat outside for a while talking about all the craziness that went on.