I don't believe in a lot of things, but I do believe in Duct Tape

We went bowling today for an A-Team event, out at Lucky Strike Lanes in Lombard. The MDA usually does about one bowling event a month. We get to bowl for free for a few hours, and they get $500.00 from Kohl's. It's win/win.

I bowled an 84 for my first game, which is really pretty good for me. I even got two strikes! The second game was a 74 with one strike, and the last game was 72 with one strike.

Our store manager went, as he does sometimes, and bought one of everything on the menu (it seemed) for us. He's very generous. He doesn't bowl, but he likes to go and cheer us on and buy us food, lol. And we enjoy having him there. He actually goes to most of the bowling events with us, which is great. Some store managers don't participate in the A-Team program at all.

Anyway, now I need to do an hour on the Wii Fit Plus in order to counteract all the snacks I ate, lol!

Leaving this morning with mom for North Carolina to visit my sister. We're driving it, of course. The Biltmore Estate has all their Christmas decorations up, I guess, so we're going to hit that again. Pam said that she was going to try and get us onto one of the candlelit tours in the evening. It sounds really nice. It was beautiful when were there earlier this year; I can't wait to see it all decorated for the holidays.

Mom's driving first because, a) her back and hip and everything are better in the morning than later in the day, and b) I was out late last night at an A-Team event on the Odyssey II at Navy Pier. It was a champagne dinner cruise for the MDA, and it was a lot of fun. We got to dress up and get all fancy, lol. The store was having a beauty event that day, with Kathy Snyder, so a few of us got our make-up done at work.

The food was excellent, there was dancing, a silent auction (I bid on a Kate Spade bag. Don't think I got it, though), cocktails, and a wine pull.

I think I only got a few hours of sleep last night. Ugh. But it was worth it because we had a blast. Can't wait to see the pictures, lol. A couple of the younger girls were going out after, and if I didn't have to leave at the butt-crack of dawn this morning, I would have gone with. Oh well.

Gotta go pack the cooler and load up the car.