Summer Spectacular - Gideon

Summer Spectacular is our church's Vacation Bible School on steroids. It's a gigantic ordeal and so much fun. The entire family comes to participate in this week at our church and it takes hundreds of volunteers to make this week happen. I am generally in the cast of the show. Basically, everyone goes to class in the evening and then the parents pick their kids up from class and everyone goes into the main auditorium to watch what they just learned come to life in a Broadway-like musical. It's hilarious because we take very current popular songs that generally everyone has heard on the radio, change the words to fit the story and in full blown costume, a cast of about 75 people put on this massive show. It's pretty....Spectacular. 

This year with all that we had going on, I missed the audition and so I was super lucky to be able to be in the cast based off of previous years. It was touch and go pretty much the entire 2 months of rehearsal after my surgery, but I did it and had a blast. While it is a sacrifice for the entire family for mom to be at rehearsal 3 nights a week, the kids LOVE seeing me up there the week of the show. Not only that, but they love that they get all of the insider secrets and get to memorize the music before anyone else sees it. It's something we all look forward to every year. Well, maybe not Adam. I am pretty sure spending 7 straight nights dragging kids back and forth to church is not his favorite, but he is taking one for the team. ;-) 

After each show we stay and sign autographs for all of the kids who came to the show. There are generally about 3,500-5,000 people that come and so as you can imagine we tend to goof off a bit once our night it completely over.