So blessed

Yesterday a friend gave me 4 free tickets to go see a screening of the new movie Rio. It doesn't come out until next Friday. We had to be at the theater an hour early because they typically overbook the screenings to ensure they have a full house. We got to the theater. There was a truck from a local radio in front, so I knew we were at the right place. I told the ticket lady that we were there for the screening of Rio. She said there was a line down the hall to the left. We went and got in line. There were about 15 or so people in front of us, so we were definitely getting in. About 10 minutes later, a person came up behind us in line. After standing there for a few minutes, I realized she had a ticket for a screening Soul Surfer in her hand. I thought it was odd that we would both be in the same line. After another few minutes, I asked the lady, "are you here to see Soul Surfer?" She said "yes". I said, "that's odd because I'm here to see Rio. Do you think they'd have us in the same line?". As I was talking I was pulling out my tickets. I looked closely at the tickets and realized they were for next week, April 14. UGH! We drove 45 minutes to this particular theater and the movie was next week!! AAaaah! I had taken my three older children because I knew they would love seeing it. Now we had to drive back home completely empty handed. As we were walking out, my older son kept saying, "please make sure mommy". I was sure. The date was right there on the tickets. I asked the "ticket taker" in the front if Rio was definitely next week. She said she didn't know, but all she was getting was Soul Surfer tickets. I asked if by any chance she had any extra Soul Surfer tickets because we had driven all the way out there. She said she didn't. The movie theater does not control those tickets, nor have any. So we started walking back to the car. About half way out in the parking lot, I had an idea. I asked my older son if he wanted to go back to the table where the radio station was and ask if they had any extra tickets. He said, "YEAH!". We went back in and I asked the ticket taker if my boys could go see if the radio station had any tickets. She said that was fine. The boys took off around the corner. We waited the few seconds. And they came back holding two tickets (each admitted 2)!!! YAY! We didn't go for no reason! So we got to see Soul Surfer which was an AWESOME movie. Highly recommended to anyone! AND we get to go see Rio next week. I kept telling the kids, "We are so blessed!!". We made sure to all thank the Lord for his blessings!!!