We decided to come home this morning even though I still had slot winnings to play with, Jack was down to $5 and that was with an extra $50 boost from me on Sunday night!!!! Here are 2 of my 3 favorite guys discussing the intricacies of the mechanical pencil (this is Thomas's yearly gift to Granddad, who is a Soduku nut and uses pencils by the tons, but only mechanical ones) We had great fun, though the knitting projects weren't not as big a hit as I expected. My dd thinks the Beatle's sweater is too short and the blue one is too small. Her shrug she says is too big, so I am taking it and ripping it out and making a totally different one using more of a bolero pattern. She liked the hangbag and as you can see, Thomas liked the video games Nonny and Granddad bought him. 
We went to dinner after opening gifts, then came back and went swimming in the hotel's marvelous indoor pool. It was way too warm though, more like bath water and I was already hot from trapsing around casinos all evening. They went home after that and Jack and I headed to the casino. He is a baccarat man and I am a slot girl, only. I gave myself $150 to play with period, had lost about $80, went and played another machine, cashed out, then put my $19 ticket into a machine and another $20 so I had used up $100. Nothing much happened there, so I cashed out and took my ticket and sat down at a video poker, which I am No ace at. I was down to about $20 after having put in about $40 when I hit a 4 of a kind Aces, which paid $200!!! I played for just a bit more than cashed out my $140 and went upstairs. Jack was still down playing so I sat and knitted for about 3 hours until he came in around 1 AM. We went to bed and laid and talked about a few things then I ended getting up at 5 AM and sat and knitted for about an hour then we cleaned up and went to breakfast. We headed to the casino after breakfast, but when I was down to about $150 I cashed out and went upstairs determined to just hold on to my original stash. Jack was already back upstairs and only had $5 of his total $240 so we sat around deciding whether to go home or not and decided to come ahead home as it was only 9:30 AM and a long day sitting if we didn't. When we got home we called the kids (son and dil) and then his sister to wish them Merry Christmas's and put stuff back, which is always a pain. I am finishing up getting the laundry dried and folded so I can get it put away and am going to sit and knit on the baby blanket I have started for the new grandbaby to be.
Oh and I received a beautiful apple and cinnamon candle from my dd and gorgeous candle holders for my dining room table, though the new candle is too fat for any of the three of them. They also bought me a lovely necklace and Thomas bought me his regular present, candles, as
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Your grandson is so adorable! Sounds like you had a lovely Christmas, and good fun at the slot machines as well!
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