Thursday, October 9, 2008

Vegas, baby!

Well, tomorrow Jude and I leave for Las Vegas, Nevada, on our annual fall trip there for "the Summit." For the past five or six years, we have traveled there in the fall to meet several of our friends who participate in the "Foodbrothers" football pool, started 24 years ago by one of Jude's best friends from college at Tulane University, Jeff "El Jefe" Williams. It's always great to see our friends, most of whom we only see once a year, in Las Vegas.

We're staying at the Wynn, Jude's favorite hotel in Las Vegas. They have a great sports book in the casino. We'll all camp out there, from dawn until almost midnight, when the last televised college football game ends. We'll bet on football all day and night, win some bets, lose a lot more and generally have a great time hanging out together.

It will be Jude's first night away from John Patrick since he was born, almost six and half months ago. I know she's a little nervous about being away, as am I, but we're fortunate to have our nanny, Carley Farley Meade and her husband, Jon, taking care of him. They're going to stay at our house with him and, most likely, be driven crazy when we call home every ten minutes or so.

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