Cast Iron Skillet

Well my new favorite item is the cast iron skillet.  I had saw some recipes that call for it and I knew people that swear bye them.  So I ran across my Aunt Kris's recipe for skillet cornbread and thought wow that would be so good with chili.  So off I went in search of a cast iron skillet.  Found one I really liked at Meijers.  I love it.  It is very heavy.
Came home and washed it and them made the corn bread.  Wow, was it great.  Thank you Aunt Kris!! It really is good.
Next is the apple pie you make in a skillet.  Yum.

Las Vegas

Cory and I went to Las Vegas again this year.  We were married in Vegas 6 years ago October 13th.  Cory loves Vegas and so do I but I do not like to go every single year...lol.

We stayed at Paris this time and I was very disappointed.  It is a expensive hotel so my expectations were high, so you can imagine my surprise when it was a very small room.  The had a huge rust stain on the floor and a knob missing off the armorie.  Not to mention that in the bathroom there was a hole in the ceiling that you could see up into. Also the TV would turn on and off randomly as we found out there was a short in the wiring.  The alarm clock kept making a weird low noise on and off all night long.  Loud enough to wake you up.  Cory and I decided to make the best of it and not complain. That was a big mistake.  Things went down hill from there.  I finally had to say something to management and they said I should have said something before as they will not do anything about it now and it was basically my fault for not telling them sooner.  I was very shocked.  We will not be staying there the next time.

Another bonus of this trip was Kaitlin and Justin was able to meet us in Vegas.  They live in California so it is only 4 hrs away from Vegas.  They stayed at the Mirage and boy their room was beautiful!!  We spent a lot of our time at the Mirage.
We had so much fun with the two of them.  Cory used that to his advantage as he suggested to the two of them that we make this an annual trip and they agreed.  UGH!  Cory knew I could not say no as I would love to see Kaitlin every year for a trip.  Very sneaky Cory!

I don't gamble at all and Cory likes to bet on the sports.  So as soon as we got there he got a huge table and had all these bets and teams and stats all spread out in front of him.   Trying to decide on who to bet on. I got a little bored waiting so I decided it would be fun to place a couple of bets of my own.  So I grabbed some betting slips and starting picking my teams.  I decided I would not bet on one team as they wore white after labor day and grass stains are hard to get out of white. So I picked the other team.  Then I picked another team because they wore Orange and I thought how cute for halloween time and a very bold fashion pick on their part.  I decided on another team as their mascot was cuter.  Also picked one as one of the players was cute, another was because everyone picks on them.  So the outcome was my husband won 100.00 and I won 1000.00.   Needless to say my husband was so mad. lol.....

All in all it was a wonderful vacation.  But glad to be home of course.....