I Won!

I haven't "won" very many contests in my lifetime (excluding basketball games). My sister, Layne, e-mailed me a drawing for the Utah Chocolate Show. Layne has been to the show before and said it is awesome and her friend Colleen has won tickets a few times, but not this year, so she was really bummed. All I had to do to enter the drawing was forward the e-mail to 5 people. I LIKE chocolate. So I did it. Low and behold, a few days later I got an e-mail back saying that I had won 2 tickets. (I think you the tickets are only $7 to get in so it's not like I couldn't go otherwise, but now I'll go instead of just thinking it would be fun to go to.) I figured most people win tickets, but Layne told me they just select 15 winners each week for 2 weeks. I guess that makes me one of the lucky few. Since Layne is the one that allowed me this opportunity...we'll have a sisters day out and enjoy chocolate.

Earlier I mentioned that I haven't won tickets to many things, but I did win tickets to something else before. Back in 1995 I wanted to go to the AT&T Challenge tennis tournament in Atlanta. Andre Agassi was playing in it and for all who know me, know that I love Andre Agassi. My dad was working for AT&T and said I could get discounted tickets if I called a certain number. I waited too late and it was either sold out, or they no longer had the "discounted" tickets available. I was explaining to the guy on the phone how badly I wanted to see Agassi. With his help, we analyzed the draw and figured that Agassi would most likely play Thursday night in the quarterfinals. I really wanted to go to that match. After quite the long discussion, he finally says, "I'll tell you what. I don't have any tickets I can sell you, but I do have 2 box seat tickets in the 7th row that I can give you...what is your name and address?" My heart was beating I was so excited. Luckily, I did get to watch Agassi play in that quarterfinal and he went on to win the tournament. So fun. So lucky.