After my workout, Uncle Denny and Cousin Hilde came over. Cousin Hilde was going to go shopping with the girls and Uncle Denny was going to stay and watch football with my dad and I. We enjoyed watching the Red Zone as both the Patriots and Panthers came up short. It would have been nice to see the Chiefs lose as well, but Johnny Manziel just can't live up to his former college days.
For Christmas, Pam had received the wonderful gift of money and a hotel stay up in Black Hawk. This town is known for their casinos. Although we have been there a few times, we have never stayed the night. I decided awhile back, a trip up the mountain for sometime away together and gambling is just what we needed. Pam, being the hardcore degenerate low staked gambler she is, was very excited to go!
Once Pam and the girls got home, we headed up to see if fortune and riches were in our future. We decided to check into to our room first. We had reservations for 4:00 and arrived slightly after that. We waited in line for about twenty minutes to find out that our room was not ready. We learned long ago through our many gambling trips it pays to ask for upgrades and comps. Since our room was not ready I asked if we could get some food comps. Sure enough they were happy to oblige. We hadn't even hit the tables and we already had a win under our belt!
We decided to walk around a bit and find a table to settle down to while we waited for our room. Pam and I found ourselves at the Lucky Lady Casino. We received our new players cards and for signing up they gave us five dollars each in cash and we also each received a twenty dollar voucher for dinner! We still had not hit a table and we were being treated like high rollers and not the low stake degenerate gamblers we are known to be! The only thing we could think of, was that word was out that we were in town and we needed to be taken care of!
Another interesting note is that Pam was carded at each casino we walked in, while I was not. Most people would be a little upset about this. Especially since Pam is much older than I am by a month and six days. Personally I was happy they thought and old man like myself could pick up a hot young woman such as Pam. Perhaps this was playing into all our free comps!
The Lady Luck proved to be anything but Lucky. Although than our free meal, we didn't win a dime. It was time to check into the hotel so we headed back. We got a massive room on the top floor with a great view. Again, they most have known who they were dealing with to provide such a nice place for us.
We decided to take the shuttle to Central City to check out their casinos. We had to wait outside for the shuttle while the temperature was a grand total of eight degrees. For most Coloradans this would be totally acceptable and a non issue. I guess I have been in Texas far too long, as Pam and I were never so happy to get on an old smelly bus!
Our luck changed at the Century Casino as we played Blackjack and visited our old friend, Pat Sajack and his Wheel of Fortune machine. We played until it was time to take the last bus back down the mountain. Pam decided that we needed to go back to the Lucky Lady and reclaim our loses from earlier in the night. We sat down and continued our losing ways and found ourselves with little of our buy in left. I will say that we did get offered another comp from the pit boss. He told us to come by in the morning and he would make sure we got breakfast!
It was late for Colorado time and we live by Texas time, so it was time for bed. We enjoyed the evening and the gambling rolling coaster it came with. With exhaustion settling in we went to bed to prepare for some gambling in the morning and the big game Monday night!
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