Tunica

Well Ryan is the big 30!  Last Thursday was Ryan's birthday and for his birthday we went to Tunica, Mississippi.  He insisted that is what he wanted to do for his birthday so after a few phone calls by my parents to a friend of theirs, we got rooms at the Gold Strike.  We made it a family affair.  My parents, Ryan's mom and his sister and brother-in-law came along to.  I am so thankful they did too, because I did not want to leave Liam at home.  We all took turns keeping him so that I could have time to play cards with Ryan.  Here he is on the ride there.

Yum!  He had french fries at Steak and Shake.  French fries have become one of our favorites!

Watching G play on her iPad.  Another one of his favorite things to do!

My parents, Liam and I left on Thursday to go to Memphis to see some family.  We stayed the night with my Aunt Becky and went out to eat dinner at McCalisters with her and my cousin Carroll. On Friday we made our way to Tunica to meet up with Ryan and his mom, sister and brother-in-law.   We put our stuff in the room and then went to eat at the buffet before everyone started playing games.  After we ate, Liam and I made our way back to the room because something I had ate just wasn't settling with me and we spent the rest of the night in the room. Ryan didn't get back to the room until early that morning.  He got a few hours of sleep until Liam woke up at 6 am on the dot like he does every morning.  We got up and woke everyone else up and went to eat breakfast.  After breakfast, Ryan went back to sleep and Liam took a nap so I left both of them in the room and spent some money on the slot machines.  I left the casino after the Wheel Of Fortune slots took all my money.  Later that night my parents, Liam and I drove back to Memphis to watch the MTSU vs. Memphis game.  My cousin Lance plays on the team so we met up with Pam, Gene and Aunt Vicki to watch Lance play his first game and whoop some Memphis Tigers booty!

When we got back to the casino, mom watched Liam while I met up with Ryan and he got me playing 3 card poker with him.  He had already won quite a bit of money so I figured I would try it out.  I cashed in early and took the majority of our winnings to the room with me to relieve mom.  Both of them were passed out!  Sunday morning we had a late check out so we ate breakfast and hit the poker tables again while JoAnn watched Liam for a little bit.  My parents, Liam and I left at one when our check out was but everyone else stayed over and played for a little while longer.  We ended coming home with about $1000 more than we came with so that was nice.  It went straight to the bank the next day to put towards some land that we are wanting to buy.

This is what we had at one point so I had to take a picture of it.  LOL  What we came home with was pretty close to that though!