Yes, I know I recently ran a photo of Osiris, but he posed for me so very patiently tonight that I had to run this.
This was my first post-TnT weekend, and I tried to keep myself occupied. It turned out to be not so very difficult a task. Friday night, I took in the brand-spanking-new Four Winds Casino & Resort in New Buffalo, Michigan. New Buffalo is just barely in Michigan, situated in the extreme southwest corner of the state, so it took only an hour and a half to get there from the Loop. The place had its grand opening only last month and it is a lovely facility. The casino is huge and the adjoining hotel and resort appear, at least from a distance, to be everything you’d want them to be. So that was fun, especially since I was able to get out of there with a net loss of less than a C note. By the way, I brought along my camera, only to find that the batteries did not have enough juice left in them to take even a single photo. Ah well… that one’s on me – never take the camera anywhere without bringing extra batteries!
On Sunday, I attended a dual celebration – one of the guests of honor had arrived to live in Chicago literally three hours earlier, and the other guest of honor is leaving on Tuesday to spend six weeks in China, Japan, Nepal, Thailand, and anywhere in between that she can bribe the rickshaw drivers to take her to. That would be my dear friend CL, who has spent years dreaming of, researching, and planning this grand tour. I have to say that the only way I could be more delighted about this trip would be if I were coming along!
So those were the highlights of my weekend, as I move onward to The Next Thing.