Good Weekend

This last weekend was fantastic. On Friday night we had my work Christmas Party, something I look forward to every year. Scott is always a good sport and lets me drag him along. This year for the entertainment we played "Let's Make a Deal". If you haven't seen the show, they give you three options to choose from, in this case wrapped gifts, and then they also offer to buy the gift from you before you know what it is. We played by table, and it was a ton of fun. I think the best parties are the ones that everyone gets to participate and the entertainment is interactive. They also went around to random tables and gave out money for random things. I went home with $100 for my prize, $100 for being pregnant (they gave $100 to every pregnant woman in the room), and $20 for having 27 cents exactly in my purse. Not a bad night. I am constantly amazed at the generosity of the company I work for. One of the prizes was $2000 for a cruise, and 5 people won it. The rest of the prizes were less, but still good value. It is amazing to me to work for a company that does those sorts of things for their employees. Not to mention the really nice Christmas bonus we always get in time to help with the Christmas shopping. It is really fantastic to work for a company that values their employees so much, and is willing to show it.
Saturday we went to see Rodney Carrington in Wendover. He was super funny, and I was glad we were able to go. His tickets sell out pretty quick, and we had been trying to go for a couple of years. He can be a little dirty, but most of his stuff is just really funny and true. Before the concert I spent some of my Christmas party cash and played roulette for the first time. I did pretty well for a while, but ended up losing it all. It was for entertainment and I played for a good half hour or 45 minutes on $20. After the concert we headed back to our hotel to see how we did on slot machines. I lost another $100, which is fine, because that was what I planned to spend on gambling, and I was done. None of the machines that usually paid out for me were working this time. Scott hadn't played at all, but decided to take some money out of our savings and play some as well. He lost $100 and we were pretty much just wandering around trying to find something to play and we walked up to a random bank of machines and he put the entire $100 into a penny machine. I was a little surprised by that. He got up to around $175, which is where I would have cashed out, but he kept playing. It was hard to to tell how much money you had because it was just showing credits and not dollars. He changed it to nickel play rather than penny play and 5 or 6 rolls later, he won something. We weren't sure what. It showed two treasure chests on the left side of the screen and then a picture saying he won on the right, then the whole screen covered in gold coins, and some pictures saying he won extra spins and just a bunch of stuff while we sat there trying to figure out what was going on. Once it finished, Scott has over 32000 credits and we couldn't do the math really quick so he cashed out. He had hit a $1590 jack pot! We were both a little shocked. The max bet was 300 nickels, which means he bet $15 and won $1590 on one roll! It was awesome. The attendant had to come pay him and that was the only time we drew attention to ourselves. We were both just kind of in awe. It was really exciting.
Scott payed cash for our hotel room, and then put the $200 back into savings that he had taken out, and then we bought a PlayStation 3, a couple of games, and the Move bundle. He still has some extra cash, and I know he wants to buy a golf club with, but I really don't know what he will do with the rest of it. It was all just very exciting and we are glad to have a little bit of play money! What a great weekend!