Our First Night Away

In March, your dad and I decided it was time for a night on the town. Well, technically we decided it like 5 months prior when I bought the tickets for the show.  We took an overnight trip to see a favorite comedian of mine, Jim Gaffigan, in Toledo, OH.  We had second row seats and I was super pumped to live it up on a Monday night.  We left you with Grandma Shelley and Grandpa Phil and hit the open road.

Your dad tried to take a picture of the mic stand & me so you could see how close we really were.  Well there were about 15 pictures that turned out like so....

And one that turned out when he finally figured out the flash. 

I normally wouldn't put a picture this terrible on here, but this selfie took us like 20 minutes to get and so it stays. 

Now you weren't allowed to take pictures of Jim during the show, but that didn't stop 99% of the audience doing it anyway. So here is the story behind these two gems.

I am likely never going to sit this close to see Jim again. In fact, I have never sat this close to a stage before unless you want to count my siblings grade school rendition of Fiddler on the Roof and countless variety shows. And so it was decided.  I was going to break the rules and take just one little picture. Well....I chickened out until the very end of the show as he hurried off stage.  Even then my heart was beating a million miles a minute-and I don't even know why.  What were they going to do-kick me out? The show was over.  And so your mom, the rule breaker, ended up with a blurred Jim Gaffigan blob to call her own.

After the show we continued on our wild and crazy Monday night adventure. There were sports of all sorts involved.  Darts, Bowling, Deer (specifically Big Buck) Hunting, Golf, and Basketball to name a few.  I, as usual, got beat in everything by your dad, including Deal or No Deal which is a game of luck, not skill. Apparently I have neither when it comes to winning against him.

And then came Waffle House.  Your dad claims he has never eaten here and so we capped off our evening with a smorgasbord of food that no one should ever eat in one sitting.

Don't worry- turns out you had your own fun while we were away.  

You took your life savings and hit the casino  Chuck E Cheese. 

You can cross seeing grandma get groped by a creepy mouse off your bucket list.  Funny story here.  She sent us the first picture while we out and we thought it was someone dressed up in a mouse suit posing for pictures with his hand in a rather inappropriate place.

Turns out it was a machine operated mouse that turned on as they were posing with it.  See picture #2.

Either way- the mouse is still a creep in my book.

Glad you had fun while we were away. Hope you didn't spend all your tickets on one stale piece of Laffy Taffy.