Lock-In

On Thursday night, the youth group teachers came together to practice their skit for the youth "Lock-In" event. The skit is a 300 parody, which shows what life was like "Before They Were Spartans".


The lock-in event ended this morning-- and man, it sure was one heck of a night.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that we underestimated the number of students coming to the event. Although having the unexpected large attendance was great, I got real worried about the crowd control, especially during the scavenger hunt run around Mountain View. Thankfully, all of that went smoothly.

The night got pretty wild, and things only slowed down to a crawl at around five in the morning. After the painful wake-up call, breakfast, prize give aways, and student departures, I was forced to lay down on the ground and reward myself with three long hours of sleep before going about the rest of my Saturday.


During the early stages of prepping for the lock-in, I initially thought the preparation for the whole thing was going to turn out to be a logistical nightmare. The funny thing is, I had a bad dream about the lock-in during the night before the event. Basically, the lock-in was happening, and everything went haywire; there was a lack of preparation, students looked dreadfully bored, and for some reason I blacked out somewhere during the event, which served more negative consequences.

I woke up that Friday morning, a couple hours prior to the time I planned on waking up, and strangely, I felt very calm about everything. I had a blast during the lock-in. When it was done, I was very relieved to find myself not feeling burdened at all.

But still, there are physical costs of holding a nonstop 20 hour shift. I'm relaxing in front of my computer right now, and I know that this isn't the best way to recuperate. It won't be long before my body will throw itself onto a nearby mattress.