Rare finds

We have this friend in our life group that is currently in Israel.  Before he left, he offered to let us use his car while he was gone so that it would make our lives more convenient and Jake wouldn't have to get up at 3:30 am yesterday to take me to work.  It was incredibly sweet of him, and we took him up on it.

In addition, this friend is a teacher at a Christian middle school where a common gift they give him is gift cards.  Except, our friend doesn't really use them.  Seriously.  He joked about how many gift cards he had one time, and we didn't really believe he had very many.

Except... when we went to pick up the car, he told us that all his gift cards were in the car and we are free to use them.  What a sweetheart!  We checked them out... he has over $160 worth of gift cards that we would consider using (there are even more than that).  We obviously won't use them all, but we have definitely taken advantage of the Wendy's gift card, and will probably take advantage of the Starbucks cards he has too (we're pretty sure he doesn't drink coffee, and Jake found out on the website that his Wendy's cards were over 3 years old).

Gift cards are precious treasures.  Our friend is also quite the guy!