Saturday evening Daryll and I joined Amy, Conor, George, and my Dad and Melanie for Dad's Retirement party. It was a fun-filled casino themed event and we all had a great time. The fire department honored Dad and 3 other retirees with brass plated axes. After dinner and the ax presentations they opened up the "casino" and gave us each $400 to play with (if it was real money I would've taken it and ran then). Dad and Melanie tore up the dance floor while Amy really raked up the chips at the Texas Hold 'Em table and Conor did the money dance for us with his handfuls of chips. George and I nearly lost it all but were on our way towards the most amazing comeback when they closed us down (I thought that Vegas never went to sleep). We all had a great time, especially Dad, and we were glad that we were able to make it up for the occasion.
In not so great news, our cable froze and wouldn't defrost tonight. Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but tonight was the season finale of The Bachelor and I've been waiting for weeks to find out what happens. Now I'm avoiding facebook and other social sites like the plague for fear of the spoiler. Oh well, I'll have to watch it online tomorrow instead.
Update: In the past 5 minutes my laptop cooling fan has broke. Now I'll have to go buy a new one in the morning or else my computer will overheat and I'll never get to watch all of The Bachelor. Sad day.
3 comments:
nice blog of last saterday,
What a great night! Thanks for the pictures. We have some great memories! Happy to get the axe and not the boot at my retirement!
What a fun-filled night! Your dad obviously enjoyed the whole retirement party, huh? My daddy's retiring soon, but before that, I also want to throw a party for him. Isn't that great? :]
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