BUNCO!!!

My good friends Shaunna , Erin and myself all thought we should start a Bunco group. We had our first official Bunco night last Saturday and it was a blast! I would highly recommend this to anyone who likes girls night outs, good food, chit chatting, no kids for a couple of hours, and major laughs.

I have played Bunco in the past however it was forever ago that being said it was somehow enough experience to qualify me as the MC for the night. I have never played without 12 people so we invited our nine other guests and got a confirmation from everyone that they would be there. Then of course we got a call about three hours before the night was to begin saying someone was backing out. We were all a little frantic for the next two and a half hours while we tried to call every female we knew who had ten dollars (these were our only qualifications to get in at this point). I eventually was able to get a hold of my friend's teenage daughter who was free and thanks to a little babysitting she had done the week earlier she also had the buy in needed. She was thrilled to be invited and even though she was the only one under aged there it all worked out. Everyone brought ten dollars to play so there was $120 in the pot as prize money. We all decided that the prizes would go as followed:

most Buncos- $50

most wins- $30

most loses- $20

travelers- $20

I would say that weirdest/funniest moment of the night goes to my "toe cancer intervention". Here's what happened...

I have a really great friend named Danielle who is always much more concerned with my health than I am. I wouldn't call her a hypochondriac......... to her face :) she just loves spending her free time googling every sort of sickness or ailment known to man (we love ya Danielle and wouldn't want you any other way). Now that you know her background you need to know a little bit of mine. I have this really gross mole/possible cancer on my toe. It has been there as long as I can remember and yes it has slightly changed color and size. I really never even think about it but Danielle has been hounding me to get it checked out ever since she has known of it's existence. About a third of the way through our Bunco game Danielle realizes that one of the ladies there is a physicians assistant specializing and working in a dermatologist's office. For the next 30 min she begs me to take off my shoe and sock and let this poor woman look at my mole. I kept trying to change the subject but it wasn't going to get dropped. Eventually Beth (the PA) is curious enough to see it that she also starts in on me. At one point there was mention of an intervention involving me getting pined down and someone else taking my shoe off (I say bring it sista... you know I could have taken you down hehe). Finally I gave in to the most anti-climatic ending, Beth looks at it for literally two seconds and says, "oh that's fine and normal".

Of course now that the shoe and sock are off everyone has to stop the game to check out my gross toe. It really was funny I wasn't at all upset I was just laughing the whole time. I guess it could have been worse... an OBGYN could have shown up.

After playing/talking for about 2 1/2 hours the game was over and four lucky people (including myself :) ) walked away with a percentage of the pot. Everyone loved playing and we hope to make this a monthly event we already have our May Bunco night on the calendar. I think everyone involved looked at this as a fun cheap girls night out. I know that I would have spent more than ten dollars to sit at a restaurant with my girls talking and eating. We got to do both of those here and you get to leave with the chance of a little spending money in your pocket. It was a win win for everyone.