A Great Day!

Fellow Bloggers Rene' and Jeanette from the Blog, RV Voyageur are parked just up the road from us at Caliente Springs RV Park. We chatted on email and we found ourselves invited up for coffee this morning. We pulled up at their place this morning and had a great visit. Like most of our Blogging friends, they turned out to be great people with whom we had a lot in common including some common friends from way back.

When we left we decided to continue along Dillon Road towards Indio and then to drive back on Highway 111 through Palm Springs. At the end of Dillon Road was the Fantasy Springs Casino where we stopped in for a look around. We signed up for the Players Club and were told that if we play $20 in a slot machine we then qualify for $40 in free play. I found a penny machine, put my twenty into the slot and started playing 20 pennies at a time. Soon the "Free Play" light came on so I cashed out my winnings which amounted to $19.60. The machine had kept only forty cents of my twenty!

Now I was playing with their money, $40 of it! I switched to a higher stakes machine and started playing $1.50 at a time. The rules are that I must play the entire $40 before I can take out any winnings. After a few minutes the 'Cash Out' option came on, indicating I had put the $40 through the machine. My winnings amounted to $90 which was all profit considering the first machine was a wash, $20 in and $19.60 out. Not bad for an hour's work.

Uncharacteristically, Norma did not do as well. She lost all of her initial $20 and then lost all of the free $40. I took a little satisfaction that she had to amuse herself watching me continue my winning spree.

We ended the day at the Fisherman's Market Restaurant and their 'Early Bird' Special of fish & chips for $12 each.

All in all, a great day! Friends, cash and a nice meal!