Win, Place, Show

M and I went to Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie last week. Now, you know we are not the typical "horse race type." The "horse race type" is usually a 65 year old chain smoker who wears lots of gold jewelry, cowboy boots and as much polyester as possible. We didn't exactly fit in. But we wanted to check it out. M was fresh from a gambling win in Vegas and sometimes I can channel my dad's winning streak and get lucky. (Did you know my dad has NEVER lost a door prize? One time, he won 8 door prizes in one night!)

So we got a fancy reserved table for a whopping 6 bucks and dissected the race program to choose our horses. We have no expertise in this field so we based our bets on the scientific proof of past race history and cool horse names. Yes, that's a novice move, but out of the 7 races we saw, we won 5 of them! We won close to $300 that night. Woo-hoo! I'm sure that upset the chain smokers who made the foolish bet on 'Cash In The Hand' instead of 'Spicy Taco Belle' like we did.

Speaking of Taco Bell, did you hear that they opened a restaurant in Mexico? I can't even begin to express how wrong that is. Taco Bell tried that 15 years ago and it flopped and now they are trying again. And it's flopping. I bet their next move will be negotiating a Starbucks in the Colombian coffee bean fields.

Anyway...here's a pic of M flashing some cash and trying to pick the next horse.