So Close but Not Quite

We had the opportunity to attend a banquet last Thursday night for the Lifetoday organization. Check out www.lifetoday.org. It was held at the JW Marriot Resort in North Phoenix. Gorgeous Resort - the grounds were magnificent!

Anyways at the banquet, we were given table 4 as our seating arrangement but I had been asked by my mom to see if we could get a table towards the back of the room.
So, being the dutiful daughter that I am I asked the woman who assigned the table reservations if we could get a table towards the back of the room. She then preceeded to write a zero after the 4 so that we would be sitting at table 40.

As we were waiting for them to call out the tables for seating, they called table 4 first! Interesting we all thought. We then decided to give my mom a bad time telling her that was probably the table that received the free trip to Ireland, or the prime rib dinner instead of chicken, etc.

Table 40 was finally called and we were able to sit down and enjoy a wonderful meal -Yes, it was chicken but delicious! Ask Scott about diving into the dessert first! It worked in his favor as the banquet manager gave him a "hard" time in fun and they brought him out another dessert and another entree! He worked that one right:) The creme brulee was THE BEST!

Well, as we are starting to eat we see Jim and Betty Robison enter and what table do they sit at you might ask? Yes, that's right table 4! After dinner during Jim's speech he also mentioned that the Diamondbacks owner and a scientist were at the table he was sitting at that night. Wow, what a wonderful table of dinner quests. That would have been amazing to visit with them. However, I will say I had some wonderful dinner companions myself! You can bet we sure enjoyed giving my mom "heck" about asking for a table towards the back of the room! What was she thinking? LOL