Christmas Party!!!

Armed with tire chains,

we set out on Thursday afternoon

for our much anticipated

USS Abraham Lincoln

Christmas Party!

The party was held at Tulalip Casino and Resort

in Marysville.

The resort part is brand new and it was stunning!

Check out our room!

We got ready and headed down to dinner.

The ball room was decorated so beautifully!

The food was amazing too!

We had prime rib, seafood lasagna,

shrimp cocktail,oysters on the half shell,

pork tenderloin, fettucinni alfredo,

and all kinds of other yummy dishes

in a gorgeously displayed buffet!

This was the view from our room on the 9th floor.

This night was our first overnight date without the kids

in almost 16 years!

We had so much fun together, played penny slots until 3:30 am,

won and lost and won and lost

until we ended the night $14 down from when we

started.

You can't beat $14 for an entire evening of fun!

We're definitely planning on doing it again

sometime this Summer.

The next day after enjoying

a huge breakfast buffet,

the valet brought us our car.

This car was a gift from my mom

and was shipped all the way from Maryland

this past October!

We were so thankful to have the valet bring us this

instead of the mini-van!

Not that I don't love and apreciate my mini-van,

but there's something about it that screams

"kids and responsibility"

and we weren't quite ready to be jolted back to reality

right there in front of the resort.

The drive home was an endless display

of another night of snow and freezing temperatures.

I won't show you photos of

the messy living room

we came home to,

or

the sink full of dishes

and

the still sleeping 17 year old

who was supposed to do them!

All in all, the kids faired pretty well.

Everyone was fed, warm and safe,

and we only got about 7 calls from them

during the course of our evening!