Week 3) This was the trip I probably shouldnt' have taken but I am oh so glad I did. We had a long weekend and I decided to run away to Atlantic City with the McSattlers (Ian & SG). On Friday, we hit the road and had a ridiculously easy ride down the GSP. While on the road to the hotel we spotted a billboard that informed us Bret Michaels, the one and only ROCK OF LOVE, was in town and playing at our hotel!! I felt like the gods were smiling down upon me.

Once checked into our hotel, we took a cab straight to the fabled AC boardwalk. During this adventure, SG and I went on the Crazy Mouse coaster. It really should be called the whiplash machine as it is a mercilessly whips you from side to side, forcing you to smoosh the person next to you. There is a coaster camera that takes a pic mid-ride and it captured this priceless moment.

How awesome is this kid?

I proceeded to win not one but TWO kung fu pandas with my mad crane game skillz.

 And then there was the greatest boardwalk game ever, they gave me a crossbow and let me shoot a target!! This is where I found that I am not a bad shot when given a crossbow. I am very tempted to get one for the house.

We then hit the new luxe boardwalk mall where I indulged in a Gucci crazed shopping spree.When Gucci has a sale, it's a damn good one. I ended up with three new pairs of fabulous shoes. I felt like I was living that shopping scene from "Pretty Woman", you know the shopping part not the hooker part.

After an amazing dinner, we headed back to the hotel for some prime people watching. There were skanks a plenty, all there to see the blond extensioned bandana wearing love god know as Bret. Lots of fake boobs, fake hair, fake nails, lucite platform heels and thirteen inch miniskirts were the uniform of choice..oh to be 21 again .

Roulette was the game of choice and SG and I made $100 last until the wee hours of the morning. We just couldn't lose. Everytime we were on our last stack of chips, we would hit. I am also proud to say that I have finally mastered gaming table etiquette and did not get reprimanded once, which is a first for me. I ended up walking away $83 richer. Take that, Harrahs!!

The next day was a leisurely stroll on the Ocean City boardwalk. It's a really nice boardwalk with ten cent skeeball lanes, the most awesome Big Buck Hunter video games, old time photo booths (a personal favorite), and a most delightful selection of junk food. I promtly ate my way up and down the boardwalk dining on fresh lemonade, chili cheese dogs, blue snow cones, monkey bread, shrimp cocktail, clams, slushies, and Johnson's caramel corn.

After this feast, we made one last stop back in Atlantic City at the world famous White House Sub shop. The sammiches are so good that Jersey boy, Frank Sinatra, used to have them flown in to him in Vegas. They were so good, that even with my boardwalk, I ate half of the jumbo sammich.

This adventure primed me for my next weekend journey....