It has been since November that hubby and I have had a date. So when I was able to arrange to get our babysitter over I was thrilled. We arranged to have her come over on Sunday from 4:30-8:00. That way since it is a school night she is still home early and we can get the girls to bed early ourselves.
We decided to check out the new casino they built just outside of town. It is called the Red Hawk Casino. I couldn't believe how packed it was!!! Where did all of these people come from? I swear it was the entire population of our town in that place! The main reason we wanted to go there was to check out the restaurants. They have 5 restaurants and our town doesn't have many good places to eat. We ended up deciding on their buffet. Hubby would have liked to eat at the steakhouse but the cheapest steak was $32 so it was not in our budget. The buffet was $17 each and included all food and drink. The food was reasonable, the dessert was great! Man if I didn't have to worry about my weight I swear I would have just skipped dinner and ate a whole plate of dessert! LOL.
After dinner we went to try and gamble. We went to the non-smoking gambling room first which was rather small. I had brought our quarters and dimes from the laundry room that I had found in hubby's pockets over the years. We found a quarter machine and were surprised to see that you had to have a card to play it. So off to the cashier we went. We were hoping to turn my quarters and dimes in to put money on a card. Do you know what was crazy? They wouldn't tkae my change!! Nope, not all all, paper money or credit cards only! You'd think money is money of any kind wouldn't you? So we didn't play! In fact we left. If they don't want my quarters then they don't need my money!!!
We decided to spend the remainder of our date at a local bar playing a few games of pool. Or should I say Hubby played and I got my ass kicked. It was more like me watching how it's done. In fact I was so bad I lost twice on one game. Yeah, I scratched on the break and we kept playing and then later I hit the 8 ball in. If you want to win at a game of pool, invite me a long. You are sure to be crowned the champ! We only stayed a half an hour as we ran out of time. Off to home we went to relieve the babysitter. The good news is that we have the babysitter booked for two Sundays a month now!
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They don't take quarters?!?!?! Okay, there goes my date night plan. Ugh. Nice to know they're doing well, though. For a while all those signs on the highway about watching for slow traffic just looked sad and lonely and I was worried no one wanted to gamble in El Dorado county.
Sounds like you had fun otherwise! I miss date nights
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