"We're Back!"

Yes, our wonderful anniversary trip to Shreveport has come to an end, but a day or so is usually all it takes to feel like you got away for a while. We actually won about $100.00 so it was a pretty good trip. I managed to take a few pix along the way:

We found this fried pie place on the way there, and man were they good. Can't you see how satisfied the large woman is?
When we got to DiamondJack's Hotel AND Casino, we checked in and they had this room service menu with all their prices:

$12 for an omelet!? What are they making it with, silver dollars!? Needless to say, we passed, and it's a good thing, because when we went to BoomTown later that night we got to play this giant slot machine and won...

Free buffet babee! If we had paid full price it would have been around $9.00. It wasn't bad, but not great, but for free it made it great. Jerramy sure took advantage of his:

Before you ask, yes, all of those plates were his. I wasn't much better, but at least I only used one plate at a time. Does that make me a hero? Well...
Before we went, though, we had to have an end of year party for Zach's soccer team! They managed to win a couple of games, and Zach really emerged as a serious soccer player. With the exception of one game where he kept trying to trip players by sliding into them on his knee, he showed an incredible amount of improvement. So, we went to the one place where a kid really CAN be a kid:

Chuck E Cheese! Didn't hear any complaints from any kids. Or adults. Or me! Good times...
Then Tuesday night Emily had her second cello recital! This one was in a junior high gymnasium so it was a lot bigger than the Little cafeteria she was in last time. As far as I can tell, she sounded really good. There were so many kids playing insturments it all sounded the same, but I know Emmy worked hard to learn the songs...

Here's a pretty good close-up...

...and here's a larger shot. I put this one on here cuz that girl on the right...you know, the one who seems to be smiling for a picture that someone else is taking? She was actually in tears for most of the concert, for reasons I can only assume were out of nervousness in front of a large crowd. I would have been okay if there was other kids my own age but man, if it was only me...yeah, I'd be a wreck too. I'm sure I did things like this as a kid, but search me for any pictures or video of it. Not anyone's fault I guess, but it would be kind of cool if I could re-live some of those things sometime. I really hope Heaven has some kind of time travel function built into its' mainframe.