Schinag-O-Blog: Now They're Married, and We Are Starving! Where Should We Go?

After booking the chapel, we looked at a few places for Ally and Kevin to have their reception. We looked at three very distinct places.

First up, the casino! There is SUCH a difference between a casino and the hotel connected to the casino. The big casino in Prescott, AZ, is Bucky's. (Good grief, what a name.) The hotel is gorgeous.

This is what you see when you walk in the front door.

This is to the right, and...

…this is to the left.

Of course, I had to get another smoochy pictures, so…

Awww…

We also got a fun surprise! The casino has a gingerbread house contest each year, with a number of winners in categories like "Individual," "Company," "School," and "Organization." Tragically, Wal-Mart won the "Company" category, so you will not see a picture of that gingerbread house.

I thought this was absolutely amazing! I am going to send this in to www.cakewrecks.com for their Sunday Sweets.

I liked this one because it was so southwestern-looking. In fact, it occurred to me that southwest architecture is especially well-suited to gingerbread house-making, since gingerbread kind of looks like adobe!

Of purse, a wonderful tribute to "The Nightmare Before Christmas."

This one was very cute, until I realized that it was created by...

… school! Or should I say, a SCHOOL? Where, perhaps, they should be able to spell "religious?" This one is going to Cakewrecks, too. My heavens.

Also, you may remember when when 19 wilderness firefighters -- the Yarnell Hotshots -- lost their lives this past summer. That was just south of Prescott, and that tragedy is still fresh in the city's mind. I saw all sorts of remembrances all over Prescott and the surrounding area. Including the gingerbread house contest.

My sister and Kevin tell me that this replica is incredibly accurate. They've seen the memorial, and they say that this is it, down to the last detail.