Your Worst Nightmare......

So, I'm still giggling about this today. Last night, I offered to help in the kitchen at a friends sons' wedding. Ryan is out of town so I loaded up the kids and my 40 hot baked potatoes and headed over to the church. There was about 10 of us kitchen workers that were told to be there at 5:00, so sure enough, we were. The people that we bringing all of the food and overseeing the kitchen hadn't arrived yet so we all just were hanging out until the bosses arrived and told us what to do. So 5:00 came, then 5:30 and then we started harrassing everyone that came in the building, asking them if they had brought food. We were all getting a little nervous but having fun. Finally, the mother of the groom got ahold of the people in charge of the food. There had been some miscommunication and they thought that the wedding was today, not yesterday. OOOOOOOOPS!!!! So, this was now 5:55 with dinner to start at 6:30. What happened next was nothing short of a miracle. A lady in our ward with lots of experience feeding 200 PEOPLE took charge. She thought for about 3 minutes, came up with a list, lined us all up and started shouting orders. My job along with a friend was 20 dozen buns and butter. GO!!!! So, picture this, a bunch of nut jobs running around the city, getting food for 200 people that were expecting to eat in 30 minutes. We were all pumped and ready for the challenge.

I'm sure I was quite the spectical running around co-op in my dress and 3 inch heels, barking at people to PLEASE EXCUSE ME and ordering, in the nicest way to get another cashier up to the front because we are in the HUGEST RUSH EVER!! When we got back to the church, everyone was arriving with the purchased food and then we got to work. Cutting buns, rolling meat for the cold cut trays, getting all the baked potatoes trimmings ready, cooking vegetables, cutting pickles, making salad etc. We were only about 30 minutes late on dinner and the best part was, so many people commented on how good the food was. We, of course, politely said thankyou and then went into the kitchen to laugh. The whole kitchen crew was dripping in sweat and exhausted by the time the food was on the table but the dinner went off, with very few people the wiser about the OOOPSIE with the food. I'm still giggling this morning about what we pulled off.......I think we all deserve a medal or maybe some of the 5000 pounds of roast beef that has been cooked and prepared for "today's" wedding.........teehee