And They're off....

No....not us....not to Kazakhstan....(yet)....


The horses at the Haskell Invitaional. Sunday was Monmouth Park's "big" race. I still don't know what the big deal about that race is, but we went, and we got our free bright orange hats.

Mike was the big winner this weekend...I didn't win a single race. My trusted method of picking horses simply by name, failed me (surprise...i didn't win anything). Anyway, Mike "won" on the big race by hitting the trifecta (picking the horses that come in 1, 2, 3). Don't get excited...his "win" netted him -$12....no that is not a typo...he lost $12 on a winning ticket. Yes, only someone associated to me could be that lucky. But even the racing gods apparently know when I've hit my limit of humiliation, and smiled upon us (rather Mike, god fibid I have any luck) and he again hit the trifecta. This time he netted close to $250!!! I guess I need not be bitter about that! In the end it was a good day. We came close to breaking even, including the fortune it cost us to get our butts into seats for the day. Even got dinner out of the deal!

Saturday we went to see Wedding Crashers...HILARIOUS!!! I haven't laughed that hard in a movie in a long time. Not a movie I'd go see with my mother, but funny none the less! Go see it if you haven't seen it.