Winner winner, chicken dinner!

Carl and I had the BEST weekend!

We had been trying to find a weekend to get away, partly because we just needed a night away and we wanted to celebrate our upcoming anniversary. I really wanted to go stay up in Black Hawk (which is like Wendover) because we would have stuff to do so we could stay up late and have fun. On Friday morning I came across an awesome coupon to stay at the Isle and get free dinner too. Before we took off Carl had an awesome "meeting" which we were already really excited about. Hopefully we'll have some really good news to report any day now.

We took off after work, got checked in and went for our awesomely free casino buffet. 

We didn't want to spend a lot of money, but I did want to play some of the cheap slots and stretch what we took over the night. I sat down with our first $5 at a nickel slot while Carl ran an errand. I hated the machine right off the bat and immediately switched to a penny machine. My five bucks didn't last long, but I got my drink and was good. Carl came and sat next to me, lost $3 really fast and put in another $10. I was giving him so much crap because I didn't want to blow $20 that fast. 

Carl was waiting for his drink and had $1.10 left on the machine. These were penny machines, but you could only bet $.30, $.60 or $.90 each time. 

The waitress comes back just as Carl hits MAX BET and says, "well, here we go". And THEN............

WE HIT THE JACKPOT!!!!!!

Carl took this pic while it was still counting. You can see it is over 60,000 credits here and that we had four triple sevens.

On that very last roll when we were getting bitter we won $1,001. I'm not even kidding, we were laughing like little kids and my cheeks hurt so bad from smiling. Obviously that isn't a huge amount of money, but when you are expecting to go home just losing a little it is an awesome feeling.

Carl hit CASH OUT like his life depended on it and we ran to the cashier. We didn't touch another machine for the entire time we were there. :)

We went back to visit our machine and take a picture with our new friend.

After that we went over to Ameristar and just walked around listening to bad casino cover bands and being giddy that we could have an awesome night. 

On Saturday we were lazy and then went up to Silverthorne to get me some new sunglasses at the outlets. I haven't had "real" sunglasses for over five years! I'm always too cheap and then I'm mad that I don't have ones I like. Now with the LASIK I wanted to get some because I should and I can wear them now!

Then we went over to a big BBQ festival in Frisco. We were going to try to meet our pals up there, but we took too long and didn't make it by the time they left. Sorry guys!!!!! But we had some amazingly good food. Two washes later, my hair still smells like BBQ smoke.

Mmmmmm, brisket sandwich and frozen cheesecake on a stick covered in white chocolate.

We were so excited to come home and see Carson though. We got up yesterday and made breakfast for Father's Day and then took Carson to a cool park by us. He begs me to go to the park everyday now so he was a happy clam.

At this park they also have a neat water area for the kids to play in. We hadn't planned on playing there, but it looked really fun. We just let him run in his diaper and shorts. He wasn't sure it he liked it at first, but he ended up having a great time.

For dinner we tried grilling ribs for the first time with some BBQ sauce we got at the festival. They were so yummy for first-timers! So all in all we had such a great and successful weekend. 

I hope everyone had a good Father's Day too!