“It felt we were in a dream – like maybe we had actually fallen asleep and none of it was real. We just kept saying to each other … ‘Are we going to wake up now?’”
The couple said they struggled to sleep that night after the big news.
The man said he usually slept well but, after finding out they had won, he “couldn’t sleep at all that night, or the night after”.
Now that the win has been claimed, the couple said they would be taking some time to think about what the money meant for them and their family.
“Of course, we want to help our families, but we don’t know what that looks like yet.