Missions Banquet

The weekend before Thanksgiving was when our world started to kick it up a notch. It started with the BSU's Missions Banquet. This is our primary fund raiser for Summer Missions. It is a steak dinner and night of entertainment (provided by the students). The students are asked to give $50 that in turn goes to pay to send out our state's summer missionaries (it usually raises over $5000 for missions in one night!). The night is always a blast. When I was a student the banquet was semi-formal and the entertainment was made of skits and lip sync acts. Over the years things have changed a bit. The students have been picking a theme and dressing up accordingly and the entertainment has become more and more tech savvy (good number of videos). This year the theme was "High School Cliques". Students dressed up as jocks, nerds, drop-outs, cheerleaders, etc. My personal favorite - the BSU staff dressed up as the cafeteria workers! Which was seemingly appropriate since they do the cooking.

The kids and I usually make it up there before everything gets rolling good. It is usually a late night so we just stop in for a short bit. You can see some more great pictures here.