When you are visited by out of town in-laws it can be either a pleasure, or a chore.
I am happy to report that my in-laws are always a pleasure to have even at Christmas time.
My husband’s brother John came to visit this year for the Christmas holidays. This is not the first time he flew from California to spend the holidays with us. No not the first. But it is the first time he flew from California with his new wife, Carol. See my brother-in-law has been divorced for over 15 years. Yes, it took him that long to find the person that he would spend, hopefully, the last and the best years of his life with.
I met Carol last summer, when we went to California. We had such a grand time together that it just seemed like we had known each other forever. After spending 9 days with John and Carol I knew that she would be the one that my brother-in- law would marry.
Sure enough a month after returning they called us to announce their engagement. OH! We were so happy for them…they were married August, 2012. Unfortunately we were unable to fly to the west coast to help them celebrate their wonderful day.
Here they are in Venice. Toasting the world and rubbing it in that they were in Italy.
Now that they were coming to the east coast my husband and I decided to treat Carol and John with an overnight in Atlantic City…OK, I know that is not the greatest place to go, especially in December, but I could not come up with any better idea. I am so not a fan of AC. I am not a gambler. I like to spend my money and get something for it, like a blouse, shoes, bag, earring, I could keep on going, so dropping coins in a machine and watching it just disappear is not my idea of a good time. However, my in-laws and my husband do love a good slot machine. So off we went… a night in Atlantic City.
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So once we got there it was all good. I found out that my sister-in-law was not a slot machine person. Her gambling of choice was the roulette wheel. Carol had me walking all over the casino searching for the best roulette table. She observed the players at the tables real close, making sure that she would pick the right roulette table ..
The two brothers took on the slot machines. They did fairly well. John and my husband won, not the really big jackpot, but in my book when you walk away with a little more than what you started with you are a big winner.
We ended up having dinner at The Palm’s at the Tropicana. We certainly did not go wrong dining at The Palm’s. We had an incredible steak dinner, and a martini that even James Bond would approve of. Now Carol and John have been married 4 months …I wish them all the blessings and a very long marriage. As Carol kept saying, I have been married 4 months, but you have been married 40 years. Yes, Carol I have been married 39 years and 6 months longer than you…I cannot wait for you to catch. 🙂