Otherwise a Good Weekend

Aside from the unfortunate insident described in my last post, it was a pretty good weekend. My manager organizes a big guys-only golf weekend getaway every year and I got to go. Funny thing, my manager didn't get to go himself as he and his wife were expecting to have a baby (she was born just this morning!) and the resort is quite some distance from home.

We got together at the Mille Lacs Golf Resort just south of Garrison, MN on Saturday morning. We had 28 guys this year and I was paired up with Byron, Aman, and Eugene from my group (though Eugene left us to join another guy whose group didn't show up entil late).

I don't golf very much (read: I fumble through a course about once a year), but it was nice to be outside and hang out with a bunch of other guys from work. The weather was perfect too!

We golfed a good 18 holes, but that was about all I could take. I maxed out the score for most of the holes, but I managed to hit the ball straight some of the time (I have a tendency to slice, especially when using a driver).

We had a big poker tournament later that night, but the cards just didn't go my way. Just crappy hand after crappy hand. Not much I could do with it, but I did manage to make it to the second table (we ran 4 tables).

As part of the package, we got coupons for Grand Casino Mille Lacs which allowed you to cash it in for $10 cash, or play one hand of blackjack for a potential winning of $20. I opted for the blackjack. I was dealt a 16 with the dealer showing a 9. I decided to stand, even though there my chances of winning in this situation weren't good. Sure enough, his 9 turned into a 19 which beat me. The next card in the deck, which would have been mine had I hit, was a 4. Oh well.

We were supposed to golf another round today, but we woke up to discover that the weather had take a major turn over night and it was raining pretty hard. You can't golf in that and none of my group are really die-hard golfers, so we decided to just pack it in and head back early rather than try and wait it out.

We got back around 11:30, and since we had to take a vacation day for it anyway, it wasn't really worth going in to work. I went home and slept some more. It was a good weekend.