A great weekend is in the books. I was batching it at the end of the week as Darla was away at a Christian networking conference in Lodi on Thursday and Friday. She then worked a volleyball tournament over the weekend and I played golf.
Friday night I headed over tot he casino for dinner and played some video poker. I lost about $100, but that included $12 fir dinner at Fatburger. I had a nice run in the middle of the night and ended the evening on a horrible run. I should have headed home about 9:30. I was up about $80 at that point.
Saturday, Darla was up early at her hotel and off to Cal Expo for the volleyball and I had a 9:15 tee time in the Super Bowl tournament. We had 96 players signed up for the Super Bowl, which will probably be our biggest turnout of the year. I played with Paul Gonzalez and Neil didn't put me in with Boyd and Andy for some reason. Andy had been rushed to the hospital on Thursday with congestive heart failure. Andy is 79, so I was worried, but he got out Friday and played golf on Saturday in the tournament. I had an up and down round, missing three foot putts and making a 40 footer for par. I shot 42 on the front and 43 on the back for 85, net 71. I walked off feeling that I left a lot in the tank and figuring I might take 5th place or so. I know from the other players in my foursome that the course was playing tough. I was the only one under par net. As it turns out, this was one of the highest scoring tournaments that we have ever had. Gary Krohn shot 66 net, but there were many, many players that had nets in the 80s and 90's.. My net 71 was better by four than anyone in my flight. I didn't win 1st place net though as my 85 was the low gross in my flight, so I took 1st place low gross. Neil took low net in my flight with a 75.
Charlie Aichele played on Saturday and we had a surprise 50th wedding anniversary party for he and Frieda that night a Cabo's Mexican Restaurant in Granite Bay. He had to leave early as he was "going out with his two girls for dinner". I asked where they were going for dinner and when he said "Cabo's", I told him that Darla and I love Cabo's. He invited us to go with them and I told him that it was family time and we'd do it another time. I laughed with the other guys going to dinner. Charlie texted me about 45 minutes later after he'd talked to Frieda and they decided we HAD to go to dinner with them. So, we had to play along, checking in that night with the group in the banquet room and then heading to the bar to meet them for dinner. We met their daughter Karen for the first time. She is the blonde in the family shot. We know Jennifer as she is a golfer and has played in our club before. Karen was at the restaurant getting things prepared for the party and planned to meet her parents for dinner. We met her and were sitting at the bar visiting when they came in. They had NO clue that there was a party planned. Karen told them that she wanted to show them something in the back room before we got seated and the gang was all there to surprise them. Charlie jumped right into the party, but Frieda was shocked and stood in the hallway and cried. It took some encouragement by her daughter and I to talk her into the party. Once she relaxed and got over the shock, she had a great time. We enjoyed fajitas and rice and beans for dinner as well as a nice cake for dessert. The party started at 6 PM and we were home by 9. Darla and I enjoyed the spa and got caught up on each other's lives.
The weather tuned warm the middle of the last week and we had 70 degrees yesterday and 72 today. The rain really helped put a dent in the drought and the picture of Folsom Lake tells quite a story.
Darla was up and off to the second day of the volleyball event today and I headed off to the Super Bowl tournament at Woodcreek. They had a nice breakfast buffet with a Bloody Mary bar followed by a hosted driving range. We teed off at 9 AM from the 16th tee playing a four man scramble with Paul, Bryan and Jesse in my group' We birdied the first three holes and then went on a five hole stretch of pars. When we turned the corner from back nine to front nine, we stopped at a Margarita Bar hosted by 1800 tequila. It was great and I had a grapefruit raspberry margarita. It was awesome. We ended up shooting a 62, which was 7 shots off the lead. We were 8 under on the back nine, but only two under on the front. We finished up and had a great appetizer bar of crispy shrimp, Thai chicken wings and Buffalo chicken legs. It was a great day and included a sleeve of Super Bowl 50 golf balls and several ball markers and ball mark repair tool. We also got 3 squares in the Super Bowl pool that paid $320 total.
I got home right before Super Bowl and actually taped the game and watched the playoff at the Phoenix Open between Ricky Fowler and Hideki Matsuyama that Hideki won on the third playoff hole. Darla got home about 4:15 and we put on the DVR recording of the game. It was hard to catch up to the live game as we wanted to watch the commercials. Honestly, there was nothing that excited me about the commercials. I was pleased to see Peyton win his second Super Bowl in 4 tries. I am not a fan Eli Manning and didn't like the comparisons between Peyton, one for the greatest of all time and Eli, bland quarterback that isn't even in the top 10 of quarterbacks in the league, much less all time. It was a very well played Super Bowl, especially by the two defenses. Well done. I ended up winning $100 in my office pool for winning the third quarter, which was nice.
Well, it is getting late and Darla wants to hit the spa. I'm in on that and say goodnight to all of you. Darla and I will call Dad and Shirley this week and set up our Canada trip. I hope all is well. Ciao.
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