Jackpot!

Last night we attended a fundraiser called Bowling for Rhinos. It's a fundraiser that one of my sisters, Tracy, organized and the goal is to help send money to a rhino preserve in Africa. The whole evening is a lot of fun. You get to bowl plus they have a silent auction and a 50-50 raffle. We went with my parents, my other sister, Janice, and my cousins, Karen and Alicia. These are some of the pictures I took at the event:

This is my cousin, Karen, with Steve. I didn't get a picture of my other cousin who was there, Alicia. She was working the registration table.


My mom, getting ready to bowl


My dad, also getting ready to bowl


Dad, in action!


My sister, Janice, ready to take her turn


Steve had a pretty good score


I look like I kind of know what I'm doing, but I don't! (I still had fun!)


Another picture of Janice, wearing the t-shirt our friend, Kim, designed for the event


Steve and me hanging out


Luck was on our side last night...

The Tigers tickets Steve won from the Silent Auction


...and...

Me looking very happy at home -- I won the 50-50 raffle!!


We were both pretty excited about our wins! I was so excited to win the 50-50 because of course it's nice to have a little extra money (esp. money we weren't planning on having.) Everyone has been telling us that we should take a vacation, especially while we we're waiting to adopt. We had been talking about it and researching trips online earlier in the day and the extra money was going to really help.

We had tossed around the idea of a short trip to New Orleans or Orlando again. As we were trying to think of places where one of us or both of us had never been, the idea of going to Las Vegas came up. We spent a good part of the night (after bowling) looking for vacation packages online. We finally found one we were happy with around 1 am!

Earlier this week, one of my friends had asked me if I would think about getting away for a weekend with her. We have never done a girls' trip in all the years that I've known her. We are both in need of a vacation. So, now we can do our trip, and I can get away for a long weekend with my friend, Barb, as well. (I'm not sure where we're going to go, but I would be happy with anywhere! We could even do Las Vegas again because I'm sure the trip would be full of shopping, or a spa day or other things that I wouldn't have really done on the trip with Steve.)

Steve keeps saying, "Vegas, Baby!" He's so excited. I can't wait, either. It's so nice to have something like this to look forward to.