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Read on for details about my visit to a Casino in Louisiana this Thanksgiving weekend.

There is an indian reservation casino, Cypress Bayou Casino close to my parents house in Louisiana. So sometimes when we go down for a holiday we try to go for a fun evening. The food is usually great for the price, and the games are fun. On this particular holiday trip, my mom had made up her mind that we were definately going to make time to go to the casino, and my parents were going to pick up the tab on the meal (thanks!!). Those of you that know me, know that I cannot pass up a free meal! So we decided to go Saturday for supper. For many reasons that don’t matter to the story, we wanted to get there by 6 or 7pm, but didn’t end up leaving my parent’s house until 10pm! It was a small group: me, my mom, my sister Rachel and one of her best friends, Mikie.

By the time we were thru the long line at the restaraunt it was after 11pm, and we were starving! Before the meal could be served, we all devoured the crackers on the table. When our main course finally came out, we had eaten so many crackers, we couldn’t finish our plates!

It was almost midnight by the time we made it to the gaming floor. We were determined to have a good time, though, so we all split up and planned to play for a couple of hours. Mikie is a big fan of blackjack and spent most of her time at a blackjack table… The rest of us seemed happy to just play the slot machines. My mom was a fan of the simple three column machines, with one row in play. My sis and I seemed to gravitate to the more complex slots with many rows and many columns…

This actually ended up costing me when i first sat down to play. See… when you sit down at a nickel machine, you really don’t think about how much you are betting… its only $0.05 right???? well… this one machine I sat at had 20 lines in play, and you could bet up to 15x the credit on each line. In hindsight, it was NOT a good idea to hit the max bet button for three plays! $45 dollars and 15 seconds later, I realized my mistake!!!! Oops! Oh well. I started playing with $100 and I bounced up and down between 50 and 100 for a long time. Eventually, inevitably, the money ran out.

Some time around the money running out, we all realized how late it really was, so we started rounding each other up and cashing out. On the way out of the casino, Mikie decided she wanted to try $5 in a progressive slot machine. So instead of just sitting by her and watching, i fished a couple of dollars from my pocket and put them in the machine next to her. I ended up winning $90 on the second try!!! Woot! I cashed it out immediately, but decided to keep playing for a few minutes on another $20 i found at the bottom of my wallet. Of course I lost it all! So I actually ended up only losing about $33 for the night! not too bad! We didn’t get back to my parent’s house until 3:45am. This was a very long night! It was definately worth it, tho! I had a blast! It also reminded me why I am glad I am not close to a casino in Texas; it would be too easy to go in there at least once a week and spend some cash!

Well… I don’t know why I decided to make this a blog post… I mean a) you don’t care, and b) you don’t care! I get it! lol
It is easier for me to write this down as a blog post than it is to write a journal or something… and I am too forgetful. If I don’t write it all down, I start forgetting things. Guess that is a bad sign for things to come later in life! lol