Today I realized that I never blogged what this week's $20 contest theme was. This week's theme is unique in two ways. Firstly, it is broken up into two parts. The first part of the contest ended on Sunday, and the theme was to come up with ways to teach songs to kids. This contest stems from the fact that every night this week we are attending VBS, and my mom is teaching the music portion. For those who don't know, VBS stands for Vacation Bible School. It's for kids K-8 grade. Being in transition between ninth and tenth grade, I'm just helping out by running the lyrics on the projectors when the songs are playing (that's where I am right now). Anyway, the second unique aspect of this contest was that the first part had no clear winner - participants receive $2 per idea used. The second part of the contest is due on Friday (as usual), and concerns next week's activities. Every year my family rents a house by the beach, and we stay there for a week. The theme of the second part of the contest is to come up with something to do during beach week that WE HAVE NEVER DONE BEFORE. This is quite a feat considering how many years beach week has been a tradition - I can hardly remember a year we've gone without. So, that's this week's themes.