Porter's Prayer

Dear Heavenly Father,


Bless that no danger will come and bless that no monsters will come. But if they do that Daddy will kill them.

Bless that I can stay up late; cuz Daddy always lets me.

AMEN

Free Mcdonalds for a year...oh ya!

There is a new Mcdonalds that is being built right by our house.  In front of the Mcdonals was a sign reading, "The first 100 people at 6 AM get free Mcdonalds for a year."  (OK, a little misleading, because it is one meal a week for a year.)  But anyway...FREE, right?

So Elisa sent me a text.  She wanted to know if I was in.  Really?  Were we really going to do it?  She then reminded me that we stood in line for the Price is Right at 2 in the morning, so why couldn't we do this?  She was totally right...we could and we would.

So the plan was to wake up around 3 AM Friday morning.  We thought that would be plenty of time for the 6AM line.  Well, trailers and tents were already lining up and it was only 5 PM Thursday.  Elisa and I decided we needed to "scope" things out and see where we could put our tent, etc. for the night.  It was 6:45 PM and we get to McDonalds.  The line had ALREADY formed.  What the crap?  It isn't even midnight.  So we put our names down on a paper list (which is the "line") and sign a wavier.  We are now committed to stay in the McDonalds parking lot until 6 AM the following morning.

Well, I had baby max with us.  We had no food, drink, sleeping attire, or entertainment to help us through the night.  We made a plan to RUSH home, grab the essentials and bolt back to the parking lot before the do a random check in.

We were able to get all the basic needs and make it back by 7:30 PM.  We made it.  The first check in would be at 8:00PM.



Baby Max "just lovin' it" in the Mcdonalds parking lot.  He was a trooper.  He fell asleep around 10 PM and Barry came and got him at midnight.  I guess he was a little too warm. 

Barry said, "he was a melted taco when he got home."  oops. 


The rules were to stay in the parking lot; check in when they randomly called your name; and stay until 6 am the following morning.

Well, luck would have it Grandma had taken Porter for a sleep over, so I didn't have him.  Lucky Max got to hang out with us until Barry got back from the Jazz game at MIDNIGHT.  BUT we got to stay in the car the whole time.  It was great!

Jessica came around 8:15 and she was 116 on the list.  We were bummed because how were we to know if people would drop out.  Well at 10:00 PM they did a random drawing for anyone after 100.  They drew out 20 names to me in the running of free Mcdonalds and good old Jessica made it!  YEA!

First check in was chicken nuggets.  They were really warm.  It was great because it was freezing.  Snowing throughout the day and night.  Next check in we got apple pies.  The morning check in was egg mcmuffin, hash brown, and diet coke. AND last but not least was the last check in for our grand prize.  A free punch card for Mcdonals meal once a week for a year.

 Jessica, Heather, Elisa, and baby Elliot (brought down by Troy for a night feeding).  Funny huh!

Morning breakfast and almost time to go home.  It was freezing cold.  It had snowed a lot that night.

Jessica enjoying the hash brown and drink.

Elisa sportin' the egg mcmuffin.

The drive through.  This is where we would check in and get our food!  It was so funny. 

What was I thinking.  I had my flip flops and luckily I grabbed some socks before I left.  Now who doesn't sport their flip flops and socks like this?

It was great.  Three moms in a minivan, laughing all night.  Here is to Mcdonalds for making a fun night.