“How can she pretend it’s just Orange juice?” I ask knowing full well that I had ordered my mother-in-law a screwdriver. I have always known that a sober mother-in-law can only bring evil to a situation. So, I actually ordered her a double.
Lunch with my mother and my mother-in –law can really only be had as I enjoy a Sam Adams and a Po’ boy at Emeril's New Orleans Fish House. I had to be careful not to allow them to order for themselves because my Mother is prone to ordering the most expensive shrimp dish on any menu and my mother-in-law believes that everything in Las Vegas is free. This is an easy meal with the mothers because I promised to let them loose for a few hours to take a look around the MGM Grand. Meanwhile, I took my kids and their mother to the roller coaster across the street at the New York/New York hotel and Casino.
Manhattan Express Roller Coaster at the New York-New York is my wife's idea of fun on mother’s day. Nothing like watching her boys scream at the top of their lungs as her heart sinks into the pit of her stomach. After two rides and a few arcade games we find my mother-in-law with a drink in her hand and my mother coveting a Betty boop slot machine.
It’s late in the afternoon and I offer the grandmas an evening with the boys and you would think that I had two for one tickets to the Boardwalk concession stand. They are elated and my wife and I are free to roam the town for the evening.
I would love to tell you that we danced all night at Risque or had drinks at the V Bar. Instead we walked over to Paris and spent a quiet Mother’s day in Las Vegas having a great meal at Mon Ami Gabi and laughing at the annoying things our mothers do.
I hope we never pick our teeth with our fingernails only to inspect the contents and then eat our findings. I hope that we never belch and pass gas at the same time in a restaurant and comment that the salad must have had broccoli. But all is forgiven because the mothers have now become grandmothers and I could have saved a lot of money by just having them watch the kids by the pool.
I can’t wait for fathers day, because I can guarantee you that it will be strip clubs, bars and poker for the guys.
