The St. Joan of Arc 10th, 11th, and 12th graders had their annual lock-out Friday, October 24th. A lock-out is a jammed packed night of fun, traveling from one event to another. The goal? To stay up all night. And most of the teenagers did just that.

Twenty-six teenagers started out their night at 9 pm by boarding a bus at the St. Joan of Arc parking lot and heading out into the night.

Even at 4am the energy level was high.

The youth started out by touring a haunted hayride. Most of the youth said that it was a pretty cool hayride, including monsters with chainsaws coming out of the trees. After the haunted fun, around 11:30 pm, they once again boarded a bus and headed to Grand Slam. Grand Slam is a popular teenager hang-out offering everything from video games to bumper cars. And of course, pizza.

Once the teenagers had a few hours of games and a few slices of pizza, they boarded the bus again. At that point it was 3 am and they headed back to St. Joan of Arc to watch movies in the Parish Center. At 6:30 am rolls and juice were served and the tired teens waited for their parents to pick them up at 7:00 am.

Marcene Hardy has attended mass at St. Joan’s for the past few years and was recently married. Marcene works at Periscope, an advertising agency in Minneapolis where she is in charge of getting projects printed. She is looking forward to putting her hobby of writing to good use for the web team, as well as meeting more people at St. Joan’s.

A full night for sure. Full of laughs, food, and fun. A great event that several teens commented would be fun to do more often. Though if you ask the chaperones … once a year is just about right.