Chronicles of Emma: Counting the Change!

For 3 years, Grammie and Poppie have been saving up their find-around-the-house-change or dig-to-the-bottom-of-your-purse-change or just pocket-change. :) So we sorted out all the jars full of change a couple weeks ago. Bennett and I were in charge of the quarters, Preston was in charge of the dimes and nickles and Fiona was in charge of the pennies. There were SO many quarters, I bet you could swim in them! After we had sorted them out, we took them to then bank and poured them into the change counter. A policeman was working in the bank at the time, so he came over and helped us. Halfway through counting them, the machine all of sudden stopped. The policeman knew what was wrong, so he went back and grabbed a flat cart. Apparently the machine was so full of coins, they had to replace the bags underneath the machine!! After the machine had counted all the change it told us how much money Grammie and Poppie have saved for 3 years......$969.83!!!! We all made a bet of how much we thought it would be at the end, but Grammie was the closest! :)

Sorting out all of the change:

My job: the quarters.

Fiona, putting the pennies in piles. :)

Preston was in charge of the nickles and dimes:

Bennett and his quarters. :)

The policeman helped us work the machine.

The bags were so full of change, that they had to replace the bags!

Wowzers!

After we went to the bank, we went into Jacksonville to go to the St. Johns town center (it's like a little town of stores....a HUGE outdoor mall). We went into the Apple store, because Bennett's iPod wasn't turning on and when you did, it looked like a static TV. They gave him a whole new one for free!! I heard a guy next to me say to an Apple employee, "Where is you newest, greatest, fastest iPod touch you have in this store?" The employee pointed to the one I was playing with, so I gave it to him. He looked at it and then said, "I'll take two." :O