Out on the town

Tuesday afternoon, a few of the dental assistants at the clinic offered to take Mike and me 'out on the town'. Skeptical about what that really entailed, we bugged the hell out of them until they gave us details. Tuesday night is BINGO night in Winslow. Since neither of us had actually played BINGO before and were starting to get a little stir-crazy, we decided to make a night of it.

The rules of BINGO are quite a bit more complex than I initially imagined. In addition to the straight line BINGOs that win, there are additional patterns that win. The regular games paid out $80 each game and the 'special' games paid out $125.

Our friends from the dental clinic, Josephine and Julie, helped us with the rules and let us borrow their dabbers so that we wouldn't look completely incompetent! While we played, Julie won a special game and Mike won 1/3 share of a regular game. Unfortunately, Jo and I didn't fare quite as well.

All in all, it was a fun way to spend a Tuesday night without spending a ton of money. Plus we got a chance to get to know two of the assistants who work with us on a daily basis. Both Jo and Julie are really nice and have gone out of their way to make us feel at home. Given that we're pretty transitional folks around here (the clinic gets quite a few students during the year), that says a lot about how nice people are in this part of the country and in Winslow in particular.