Battle of the Sexes!!

Just wanted to share a little victory story from yesterday..

Saturday is the designated day for community outreach and internal(only project people) or external (we invite people from the community/work) socials. Last night we had..BATTLE OF THE SEXES!! For outreach we went to different laundromats to do our laundry and creatively talk to people. No one was really at the one I went to but we got to offer 2 ladies some money for laundry and play with their kids for a little to keep them occupied. Not a huge success, but God does work. It was good.

Then..social time! Out behind the hotel we had set up 8 tables for our BATTLE OF THE SEXES competition. 4 tables were for the guys, 4 for the girls. The competitions that the guys had to participate in were as follows: cookie decorating, nail painting (not their own), make-up identification, and sewing a straight line. Next were the girls: Football throwing, burping, watermelon seed spitting, and tool identification. They were tricky, but we dominated. At the end of all of that, we played a major flag football game on the beach. Girls wore black (with yellow bandannas) and guys wore white. We played a normal game of flag football except the guys had a hand tied behind their back. It was a great game and girls WON(of course)!!! We had a great interception at the end and scored the winning touchdown!

Afterward, everyone ran in the ocean water, and then came back to the hotel where people began to jump in the pool. Everyone jumped into the pool with all their football clothes still on, and one by one we all jumped in(most everyone at least). I was hesitant, but I figured..live a little. Clothes can be washed and dried..memories are more worth it than keeping my clothes dry. We all swam in a circle in the pool and created a man made whirl-pool. It was sweet (and legit, I tried to swim against it and couldn't! But that also could be due to the fact that I can't swim! Ha) We all got out of the pool, and went back to 1301 (the designated hang out room) to watch the Blind Side. It was a great night with new friends (even though it feels like I've known them forever).

The picture below is a cookie we stole from the cookie decorating competition the boys did and added some truth. The picture at the top is my D-group before we dominated in flag football. From left to right: Sharon, me, Audrey (D-group leader), Emily, and Christy.