Today was Mimi's first day of ski school. Although it is not the first time she had attended a ski class. Dad got her all signed up then went to have some fun for himself for the next couple of hours. Meanwhile I made the trek back to the lodge to stake out a place for us and sat down to write out all of Mimi's thank you notes to her friends that came to her birthday party last week. That was loads of fun for me. While I was writing a whole group of 5-6 year old came and sat next to me. We had loads of fun talking about what they like and don't like. They really liked her Madagascar thank you notes. One of the dads that was there asked if I had any kids and I told him about our Mimi. He said "I kinda thought so. You seemed to be in tuned with everything they are saying." With Mimi, anything about body parts and the noises they make gets her and her friends just howling. Same with these kids. Then I found out about the snow tubing that is located next to the parking lot. Maybe next week I will dress more appropriately and then take Mimi tubing after her ski lessons. That should be lots of fun since I don't ski. On the way home I just remembered about the new casino that just opened up a few months ago. I mentioned to dad that we could stop by to see it since I love to play the slots. Although he did not say anything and just smiled at me, I knew that he was thinking to himself "put a cork in it". I shared with him a story from an acquaintance. It seems that Luster (her real name) loves to go to Muckleshoot Casino quite often and she had told me that she was given her statement of all her wins and losses for the past year. I don't know how much she won but her losses in total was $41,000.00. Dad said that if it had been me, it would have been sayonara mama-san. Lucky him, I am not that hard core.
