Last September, Mike and I again played in the Imus Ranch Fund Raiser golf tournament (which, by the way, is a very worthwhile charity and you can check them out HERE). One of the fundraising elements is a raffle -- they obtain a bunch of prizes from donors and you can buy chances at 25 bucks a pop to win a prize. Although the prizes are generally very nice, they are not usually something that I am excited about winning....however, I did see one that looked quite appealing: a round of golf for 2 at one of the Crystal Springs Resort courses. We bought a ticket that morning.
Later that night, during dinner, the emcee announced that they would start awarding the prize winners. I pulled out our one ticket and noticed that all around us the other attendees pulled out strings of tickets. "Great" I thought to myself, "there go our odds!" Not only do we have only one chance out of thousands, but we'd have to have our one little ticket drawn at the exact moment that they were awarding the golf prize. After the prize winners for a year's worth of gourmet jams and a custom designed tote bag were drawn, they announced that the next prize was the Crystal Springs golf. I informed my table mates that I was about to win this - the only thing I wanted. Unbelievably, my ticket number matched the one called! Jumping up out of my seat, I must have created quite a spectacle running through the sedate crowd of sophisticated professionals to claim my prize. In fact, I know they were all surprised at my excitement because later that night, Rob Bartlett asked the "crazy lady in orange" to come back up to the podium and they gave me a golf wedge "just because of my enthusiasm"! My notoriety lasted for a couple of weeks as my "performance" was featured on the WABC Radio website but luckily nobody I knew saw that.
My luck held out even further when I finally was able to book the actual trip -- they put us up in a one bedroom Vista suite in the exclusive Grand Cascades Lodge (their most luxurious property)!
At this point you might be thinking, "well, Linda, you AND Mike were at the tournament last year so how do you know it was YOUR luck and not HIS that caused the win?". To that I would say - Mike has NO luck! Here's the evidence:
This year I was unable to accompany him to the fund raiser so I sent him off on his own. Once again there was an opportunity to win a golf trip to Crystal Springs but the difference this year was instead of a random raffle, you had to buy a chance to sink a difficult putt. A max of 10 winners would be permitted so the odds of winning the trip would be no more than 1 in 10. Mike bought a chance to try and sunk the putt! Then he bought another chance, and sunk the putt again! Wow....the worst we could do is have a one in five chance of winning. By the end of the contest, only one other person had sunk one putt so there were only three tickets in the drawing -- and Mike had two of them! The only downside: I wasn't there to hold the tickets! When they reached in and drew out the winning ticket, however, it didn't have Mike's name on it :-( See what I mean?
Anyway, we enjoyed our trip to Grand Cascades Lodge so much that we plan to return. They offer a wide range of activities, tons of great restaurants, and the suites are so beautiful you could just stay in your room the whole time!
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