November 21, 2022 - Our 40th Wedding Anniversary

 Hard to believe 40 years have gone by and I'm still married to the same man. 😂

My day started out as usual. We had decided not to do anything special for our anniversary because we are going on a cruise. So I headed off to Brazilian embroidery. 

I worked on this piece. Floss painting is fun but not as easy as one thinks. We had a "holiday" lunch. Since I'm gone most of next month, we decided to do it today.

I headed home at about 1:30 pm and we left at 2 pm. Patrick found a restaurant outside of Olympia that we went to. First we needed gas, then we needed to go get new credit cards because ours was scammed. At least the credit union caught it right away. Then we were off. 

We went to "The Ranch" restaurant listed in the top 10 restaurants in Olympia. I really enjoyed it. It's a BBQ restaurant with excellent food. We were early, so there was plenty of room for us. The gal thought Patrick said there were 4 of us. He just said we had a reservation at 4. It's was comical. 

Headed back home around 4:30 pm, Patrick said since we were in the area, we could go to the Casino. We hadn't been to a casino in awhile. The last one was when we went to the beach. We won $300 in the first 10 mins. Then we won another $356 as that was running out. Long story short, we spent 3 1/2 hours in the casino on the money that we won. We wanted to play, and that's what we did. It was fun and we had a good time. Our anniversary turned out to be one of the best we have had in a long time. AND I was even able to be Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!