the broken key

so hey...i'm on a quick lunch break.  and i thought i'd tell ya about my day off wednesday.  because it's slightly crazy.  me, ashley, corie, and diana had our day off together, so we were like "hey let's go to ocracoke!"  so that morning we ate breakfast at the atlantic coast cafe which is AMAZING and non-expensive and the BOMB place to eat.  it was pretty cold and rainy.  so we drive down to the ferry, and get on the ferry to ocracoke!  woohoo!!

anyways, ashley wants to get her camera out of the car, so i give her the keys and she goes down, and she is SUPER strong and she just breaks the key off the door!  it was incredible!  i've never seen such a massive exhibition of strength and power.  so she came up and showed us the key, and i could not help but just cracking up.  here we are, on a ferry, my car is smack dab in the middle of the ferry going to ocracoke island, where there is no locksmith.  we couldn't get inside the car, and even if we could, we didn't have a key to start it!   my spare key broke about a month ago in SC.  so here we are parked in the middle of the ferry.

after the ferry people moved all the cars from around me, we just stay on the ferry and head back to the hatteras side.  we have pictures documenting this by the way, they should be on facebook soon!  after spending about an hour on the phone, we had a wrecker meet us on the hatteras side to get my car off the boat.  then he pulled it into a parking lot....75 bucks.  we had a locksmith come and just open the door for 20 bucks, so we could get cameras and wallets out.  it's still cold and raining!  ryan came to our rescue, and put down his weedeater and came to pick us up at the ferry.  what a guy.  then, ashley spends about an hour on the phone talking to AAA (she's cool like that) and they tell us they are gonna send a wrecker down there to take my car back to the campground.  so we start heading back, the wrecker called and said we didn't need to be there when we pick it up.  we ate at bubba's b-b-q.  never eat there, ok?  just don't.  they served "new mexican food" and "b-b-q" and it was just weird.  just never eat there.  

a few hours later, my car arrives back at the campground.  this guy used dawn soap detergent to slide my car off of the ramp.  quite humorous.  it was cold and rainy.  that was completely free of charge thanks to AAA!!!!  then, AAA sends a locksmith down to make a totally new key for my car, and so he comes, takes the lock out of my trunk, decodes it, gives me a brand new key plus 2 spares, and AAA covered $170 of the $260 dollar charge.  then we had chapel practice, and then i went to bed.  

at the end of the day i had 1) grown a lot closer to some of the staff, they are absolutely...incredible.  2) i had 2 spare keys for my car, 3) i know never to eat at bubbas, 4) i have about 200 dollars less than i had before my day off, 5) the next day i learned i had direct deposit and God totally took care of finances, 6) i kinda craved a hug from jenny and some ice cream, and 7) it was God that orchestrated my day off.  from beginning to end.  how cool!

we now have 13 summershiners here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!