God Wink ;)

Elijah was staying at Megan's house with us and visiting on his way to Franciscan University. I took him to this antique arcade museum that Megan and Dad recommended that I had been wanting to check out. It was called Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum and had been featured on TV for its historical machines and it turned out to be so cool! We first looked around at all of the machines to see where we wanted to blow our coins.

Before, I said it was 'arcade' games (which they definitely still had), but there were more gear-operated wooden machines from the early 1900s that portrayed some event or told some kind of story. The best thing to compare it to would be the “Welcome to Duloc” singing dolls from Shrek. Or I guess I could also show you this video:

So this is where the “God Wink” started. We walk around past a machine where you could exchange your dollars for coins and there was a handful of quarters left and no one was in sight. My instinct was to take the quarters (hehe) but Elijah suggested we wait a bit and come back and if it's still there, we shall then take them. So we came back about twenty minutes later and the quarters were STILL there. So we took them and split them. We checked out this one game where your quarter gets dropped and then spins around until falling on a number that indicates the number of tickets you get which was normally anywhere from 5-20 tickets -- now mind you, we didn't care about the tickets, we were just curious how it operated and had free quarters to blow. So I put in a quarter and my quarter fell on the JACKPOT!! I got a whopping 500 tickets which took 5 minutes to print them all! My excitement sky-rocketed -- stuff like this just doesn't happen to me. We were both so shocked and so were the children surrounding us. But as a 21-year-old, I really had no desire to trade it in for lollipops or fidget spinners, BUT we knew that the little girl standing at the desk could've had better use with 500 tickets (which was the equivalent to winning the lottery). So Elijah went and gave her the tickets and her shyness could not hide her excitement. She was so happy when we gave them to her.

So that, my friends, was my little “God wink” of the week.