a valentine's trip

when josh first told me he planned us a valentine's trip... to wendover... i may have laughed out loud.  what on earth is romantic about wendover?

but josh, along with our friend rj, planned a great couple of days for me and katie.

it all started with the fun bus.

the boys decorated our seats with hearts on the windows, bags filled with candy and love letters, and princess tiaras for us to wear.

the ride was great.  we played a few games of scrabble between the 4 of us and played bingo with the bus.  josh won us a whole dollar.

we made it to the montego bay, checked into our sweet (suite) rooms, and headed to the casino.

we ate some grub (well kind of...the buffet was nothing to be desired) and spend the rest of the evening hanging out and playing blackjack and winning.

the next day we got up, ate more grub, and played more blackjack.  then the boys surprised katie and i with appointments to receive full-body massages.  oh happy day!

while we were getting our massages, a very interesting thing happened.  the boys continued playing blackjack at the same table we were at before.  they started talking to a guy at the table.  a very loaded guy who was throwing down hundreds like it ain't no thang.  let's call him gary.  gary was in 'dover all by himself and was clearly looking for friends because he said he'd take us all out for dinner that night at the seafood buffet.  the boys were elated.

while at dinner with this 40-something old man, we found out some very interesting things about him.  he's from northern california and he's in the "medical business".  which is his lingo for growing marijuana for medicinal purposes (because remember, it's legal in cali?!).  he showed us pictures of all of his plants, told us how he harvested them, talked about his employees that are his "trimmers" and "testers".  wow.  

i made the mistake of asking him what he did before marijuana was made legal in cali.  "i sold it illegally".  double wow.

nice guy.  very generous.  but definitely interesting. 

after dinner the boys had another surprise in store.  they had tickets for the chinese acrobats of hebei (kind of like a cirque de soleil show).  it was fun and those crazy acrobats did some trippy stuff.

back to the casino we went to get in our last hoorah of blackjack.  while the boys were playing, katie spotted the acrobats heading into the buffet.  we couldn't help but take advantage of a fantastic photo op.

just before it was time to board the fun bus, we ran into gary again.  he offered to buy katie and i anything we wanted in the gift shop (might i add- the most ghetto gift shop i have ever seen).  we couldn't resist the tacky, little kids matching sweatshirts.  we will wear them with pride and think of our sugar daddy, gary.

we had a great time hanging out with katie and rj- eating food and gambling.  definitely a boys-style weekend, but it was way fun!