Brzycki family: Saturdays & Mini Vacations

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Saturdays & Mini Vacations

I love Saturdays and weekends...what's not to like? I can sleep late, take my time having a couple cups of coffee, and move at a much slower pace.

Earlier this week, we all took a couple days off of work and headed to the casinos in CT. Cassie (Dan's girlfriend) also joined us. Originally she had planned time off of work, but since she has since been laid off, she actually was able to coordinate this mini trip with some job interviews in RI. So Cassie took the ferry from Long Island and then drove the 15-20 mins to Mohegan Sun and we met there mid-day Tuesday. This was Cassie's first time at a casino and only Dan's second time (if you don't count the time we went when he was under 21 so all he could do was look).

Anyhow, we had a good time. Spent a few hours at Mohegan, grabbed some lunch, and then headed over to Foxwoods around 4 or 5 PM. Checked into the Grand Pequot Tower and then spent the rest of Tuesday and Wednesday at Foxwoods. We all had a good time Tuesday night since we all seemed to be making back the money we were putting in (by the end of the night I was only down $5). So we weren't winning big, but we also weren't losing big either.

Wednesday we weren't as lucky and we all ended up losing more than we were winning. At the MGM casino, we ran into a guy who won $10,000 on a $1 slot machine. An hour later, right around the corner, there was another guy who won $12,000 on a $1 slot. Of course, this 2nd guy had already dropped $800 in an earlier slot machine. Would have been nice to win something like that, but we all had fun on our penny slots (Ed played a couple $1 slots...the rest of us were too cheap!).

Left Foxwoods Wednesday late afternoon after grabbing at late lunch at Fuddruckers (gotta love that name!)--we headed home; Cassie headed to RI. After her interviews on Thursday, she drove here and is now spending the weekend with us (actually, Dan...). No big plans for the weekend...just hanging out, going to Irish Night at the church, etc. But as I said when I started this post, I enjoy the weekends where we can just hang out and enjoy a slower pace of life.

Next week Ed has his next CT scan. I'll be sure to report in after that... In the meantime, stay warm, don't forget to turn your clocks forward tonight, and look forward to spring!