Winning run at the craps table

I graduated college in May of 2003 and attended Navy OCS August-Nov of the same year. Christmas of 2003 I was in Las Vegas, NV, at one of the casinos in the old downtown off Fremont Street. I was with family including my father, step-mother, step sister and her husband. My step-brother-in-law (lots of hyphens) goes on a "run" at a craps table. It's fairly late at night, perhaps after midnight, the casino was nearly empty, but when someone begins throwing winning rolls one after the other the universe can get really weird. I exaggerate and say that portals were opening from distant galaxies for aliens to get to this table with someone throwing wins, but it's a bizarre thing to see a table fill up in an empty casino. While raking in my modest but continuous winnings I notice the gentleman standing to my left is one of four members of my senior engineering capstone project design team from my last semester at college. This goes a long way in my hyperbolic telling of the tale, and is why I include portals and aliens.