Mary and I had a super time. We got to the hotel about noon on Monday and left our luggage in the car because you can never get into your room until late afternoon. We headed right into the casino for a couple of hours to do some gambling. Mary and I always go our separate ways with plans to meet in 2 hours so that's what we did yesterday.
When we met again at 2 P.M., I had lost almost all my gambling money and she was up a few hundred dollars. Par for the course! Mary had dinner coupons for both of us so we went into the casino diningroom and ate like pigs...well, maybe not that bad but we were pretty full. After eating we got our room keys, picked up our luggage and took it to our room. The rooms are just beautiful and I'm always amazed that we can get them at no charge occasionally just by hitting the casino once in a while.
We went back down to the casino and again went our separate ways with plans to meet around 6 P.M. for drinks. At 6 P.M. my fortunes had changed and I'd won back almost all the money I'd originally lost but Mary's fortunes were dwindling. We had a glass of wine for me and a beer for Mary before hitting the slots once more.
At 9 P.M. we split a corned beef sandwich, had beer and wine again, and then returned to the slots. I found another lucky machine which kept me happy until 1 A.M. when my butt got too sore to sit any longer and that's when I went up to bed. Mary had won almost all of her money back and had beat me to the room by an hour.
It had been a fun day!
Today we climbed out of our beds about 8:30 A.M. and took our time getting ourselves ready and our little bit of luggage put together. By 10:30 we were again sitting in the casino diningroom for our free breakfast buffet. Neither of us was very hungry but it was free, right??
We left the hotel before noon and drove across the border to do some shopping in the States. We went to the Summit Mall which is almost deserted but Sears is there and we wanted to price Clinique products. Sears was a mess...looked like a store going out of business but they swear it isn't. They don't sell cosmetics there but said BonBon's (at the far end of the mall) did so off we went to BonBon's. They had a large selection of Clinique products but a sales clerk who knew nothing about them. We did discover that the U.S. prices beat our Canadian ones, though, and we did purchase one of the items.
Then we went to the outlet mall and found a cosmetic store that sold Clinique products at fairly good prices but they didn't have a full selection. I bought the "moisture surge" that has done spectacular things for my sun damaged skin. We looked in a few other stores but decided we might better go to Walmart.
Good old Walmart provided us with the few other items on our list and we left there pretty quickly...we needed to eat again. One of the sales clerks directed us to a nice family restaurant not too far away ("Michael's) and that's where we ate supper. We do seem to eat a lot, don't we?
Back home again and Mary packed her stuff into her car, we kissed and hugged goodbye, and our little mini vacation was over. I loved every minute of it.
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