Well I have played the lottery for the last time this last week.  I think that I am going to save my money every month for vacations from here on out.  I have won nothing over $250 in the 16 years I have been playing so it is not that much of a sad passing of the torch.  I like to see my mother and I have more fun at the casino.  Plus I have been winning more in the casino than at the lottery for years now.  I just had my 13th jackpot in this last march at Chinook winds casino so I enjoy going to the casino and seeing if mom and I can win a jackpot.  Granted I will never get the big money like the lottery offers but still a couple of extra hundreds every time we show up doesn't hurt the wallet too much.  Along with the good food you get to eat it is a no brainer to just wait and plan vacations every couple of months out of the year.  I don't think a big jackpot win is in my future any more and just decided to be real about it and have my fun at chinook winds casino with my mother.  She is 61 this year and I don't know what the future holds for etiher of us but I can say this that I enjoy my time with my mom even more since my dad died back in 2005.  So making her happy with trips to the casino is what I like to do as long as I can afford it.  I hope that these trips will be fun for both of us and add years of joy to our lives.  Thanks for listening to my thoughts.  Good luck to the rest of you lottery players and win big!-weshar75