When Mondo is home as most of you know... We must go somewhere. Now with a big family everything seems pricey when you times everything by 6. So we are always on the hunt for deals and what not. Well The horse races had '"Dollar Days" Which means $1 sodas, $1 beer, and $1 hot dogs, and $1 wagering. We can do that! I hadn't been since I was like 6. Mondo had been a year ago with the boys and a friend and said the kids enjoyed it so let's do it!
Now we ended up not doing the cheapest route but we had so much fun and was well worth the extras we put into it.
So I guess kids were free for admission, and you can get in for 4$ but we decided to go to the club level at 10$ each for Mondo and I so I guess we could have saved, but we did already by kids being free right? Walking into the main bathroom there was like being in the 50's to me with the room of vanities. Yes its older but was pretty cool and made me think of the older days when everyone would go there dressed up powdering there noses (or so this is how I picture it). A small highlight for someone like me who likes silly things like that. Ok enough about the bathroom.
Well Mondo had previously came and his friend already had the box seats so we didn't really know what the cost would be. There were not many people when we had arrived so we could have sat in the seats included in our ticket but we thought let's check it out. Well we walk over to the box seats area. and find out it's 10$ a person even the kids. Mondo about died and said ok let's check out the free seats. I mean it is dollar days and we do wanna keep our cost down. So we walk past all the box seats again on the way back to the free seats, and we all are like let's just do the box. It's the experience and we can spread out and not worry about kids being in ones way. So back to the lady.
We got 2 boxes side by side which was so well worth it! Definitely worth the price. If it was just Mondo and I we could have done without, but the space was needed with our ginormous family. We could set our stuff down leave it there. It was perfect.
Now for the fun! We just did cheap bets we were not there to win, Just wanted to have fun. So each race we all picked our own horse to win. Would go down and see the horses before a couple of the races. I wanted to do this every race but my lazy children were like nah lets just stay in our box. But let me tell you if they wanted another hot dog or soda they would get up. So we all had about 3 hot dogs each lots of beer and soda! It's dollar days after all! Gotta use that deal up!
So let's talk about our horses we picked. We most of the time went by odds, Even after we realized that wasn't doing well. I was supporting the girl jockeys. No luck there. Nicky would vote against the odds. It was so exciting to be jumping up and down as the horses were racing. Everyone was doing it! Mondo I think was yelling the loudest. I had to tell him to tone it down a couple times LOL.
For the last race we decided to go down to where you could stand and watch by the finish line. We all put our money on one horse and........ we lost.
At the end of the day Brody is the only one who made out with 23$ We won't talk about how much was lost/spent because we had a day of fun no meltdowns, and we all can't wait to go again! LOL So lucky to have these days with Mondo and the boys. We are very lucky with his schedule for these days, Even if it meant he had to work 5 in a row which led me to lose patience, my hair and my voice during that time from some amazing not so perfect parenting. These days make it all worth it.
Thank you Mondo for giving us a great memory for the books.
#Makingmemories2016
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