Casino Night

Last night we attended a Charity Casino Night. I forget the charity, oh yeah, it was Alzheimer's!!!

Our admission ticket included $10 worth of chips for each of us. When we were down to our last $5 of chips we decided to bet it all on the #5 horse at the horse racing table. We figured we would loose it all and go home early so we could wake up early for the Canada gold metal hockey game. 

Well, it didn't work out that way. Our horse came in and we won $50 in chips! Then I took my winning over to the Nascar table where I won $100 dollars on car #21. It was great fun but it wasn't 'real' money, just chips that could be exchanged for donated gift baskets to the top 7 winners of the evening. 

I couldn't find anyone who had more chips than us so we thought we might have a chance to win something. We stuck around to the bitter end and as our friends left they gave us their unspent chips until we had amassed $442 in chips.

Turns out that was good enough to win the 5th give-away basket filled with over $400 of restaurant gift cards, clothing, etc.

We took a golf shirt and a restaurant card and then shared the rest of the basket with the friends who so generously shared their chips with us.

Even though it turned out to be a late night we still managed to get up to watch the hockey game!

Lots of great stuff in the basket but we decided not to bring home the alligator head!