$6 mistake: day 12/365

ok, so a little background. Every Thursday, there is a wholesale auction up in the caves. During this wholesale auction, they sell damaged and misguided freight. They also sell the things that stores reject...like shopping carts. Anyhow, minimum bid on this stuff is $5. Krystal and I were walking around and we came across a shopping cart. She had a lot of fun with a shopping cart at college, so we were going to bid on this one to take back with us! What we missed was the little note that said "lot is 9 shopping carts" and we bid $6. Now, the probability of getting one shopping cart for $6, slim. The probability of getting 9 shopping carts for $6, nearly impossible! I guess this isn't the case if you are the Weigum sisters! Dad and Christopher Ryan didn't think our luck was too savvy when they had to go up and get these shopping carts with the trailer. And we are not talking normal shopping carts, we are talking like the ones with the two toddler seats in the big plastic front! They also came with about 12 boxes of burrito paper wrappers, like from Taco Bell! It was great! Anyhwo...so we started coming up with all these different things to do with shopping carts. Then one night....we came up with an AWESOME idea. We loaded them in the back of Daniels car, and Rachel's car, a jeep and an explorer (no easy task) and headed into the middle school outdoor basketball court. We were going to have ourselves a good old fashioned cart joust. We were equipped with fun noodles and everything! That lasted for about a half hour or so, and then I broke Krystal's fun noodle. You see, here is what we did, I was in one basket part, Krystal in another. Daniel was pushing me and Christopher Ryan was pushing Krystal, While Rachel took pictures. We started a ways away from each other, and then when you passed you hit the other person with a fun noodle in an attempt to knock it out of their hand. After I broke Krystal's fun noodle, we decided to turn the cart joust into bumper carts. We cracked one on a picnic table...whoops! (We didn't hurt the table though!) All in all it was a very fun night and it did make Christopher Ryan a little less annoyed at having to go get them. I don't know that we have any of them anymore because all the kids in our neighborhood thought it was awesome that we had them too, and came by wanting to know if they could have one! So on the plus side, we got rid of them for dad.....on the down-side, I don't know that he will EVER let Krystal and I bid on something again! Here is a picture of Krystal and I when we passed one another...ok, maybe it wasn't a "good old fashioned joust," but it was still fun!