Wii Are the Champions

I don’t ever buy lottery tickets, knowing the odds are always against winning. But tonight at the Temple Micah auction, when Teddy’s 12-year-old daughter asked us if we wanted to buy some raffle tickets at $5 a ticket, I said we would take one. I jokingly asked her if she had sold us a winning ticket and she smiled and said OF COURSE!

Throughout the course of the live auction, there were three interludes for giving away the raffle prizes. Everyone had their strings of tickets on the table as the numbers were called. Of course we had our single ticket on the table, too. Our rabbi Toby won the Cuisinart deluxe model – a good thing because she is reputedly a great cook. Someone else won the Ipod Touch. Then came the item everyone had been waiting for – the Wii. (I had to ask my husband what it was that everyone seemed to want.)

As the young girl read out 195-84-86, we realized we had won! Everyone was so envious, especially those with 12-year-olds.

So after an evening of fun, we probably just about broke even. We managed to buy

– A pint of Judith Capen’s superb chocolate sauce,
– A lesson in latke making from Miriam in Silver Spring,
– A chili dinner on Capitol Hill,
– Another dinner “Hot smoke, cool jazz” in Bethesda, and
– An adorable Vera Bradley black quilted backpack donated by Forecast.


But the big surprise of the evening was that we managed to win a Wii on a $5 raffle ticket! I hear there is now a new ailment called Wii-itis that people get from swinging their Wii rackets. I can’t wait!