We wento to the Mohegan Sun
casino yesterday. We didn’t leave here until after 3pm, and it’s about
an hour to get there, so it was a bit of a late start. We didn’t leave
until around 11pm. I’ve never been to a casino so it was interesting to
go. The place is huge, it has over 6000 slot machines in it, along with
the usual table games, and a giant hotel, conference center, arena,
shops, etc. One of the reasons we went was because yesterday was free
scoop day at Ben and Jerry’s icecream stores, and that was the nearest
one. We had been talking about going for a few weeks now anyway, so it
was a good time to go.
We had alot of fun. There are 2 diffent gaming areas with the shops
in the middle, and an upstairs that is mostly just restaurants. We ate
at Johnny Rockets, which
is like a 50s style hamburger joint. They even give you 2 nickles to
put in the little juke-box on the table. It plays overhead, rather than
at the table, so it takes a while to get to your song. It was really
good though.
We didn’t play any of the table games. They’re pretty expensive, and
there aren’t any that we really cared to play. We decided to dedicate
$10 to playing slot machines and video-poker though. We ended up doing
really well. We signed up for the little player’s club card, which
gives you bonus points every time you play something that you can
redeem for food or whatever else. We didn’t build up many points, but
that’s ok. The first thing we tried was one of the slot machines, and
Sabrina won a few pulls in a row, so we had a good start. We did more
slots off and on, but never really won anything else. We did do well at
video poker though. We played for quite a while, and did well enough to
start having more than we started with, so we cashed out with $12
before we went to eat. So from our $10, we made $2 more. Then after
dinner we went back to play some more, and did even better. We lost for
a while, but started winning again, and put aside $10 in quarters so we
would know that we would at least break-even for the day, and used the
leftovers to play more. I was on a losing streak for a while, and on my
last $0.50 I got a really good hand, and won $12.50 back. After that I
did pretty well for a while, and so did Sabrina (she also got a $12.50
hand) and by the time we called it quits, we had $33.25. So we had a
profit of $25.25 once we took out the $10 we started with, and included
the $2 we won earlier. We were both pretty pleased.
It’s pretty unlikely that we would do so well repeatedly, but it’s
certainly a nice way to start off the first time we try going. The best
you can hope for usually is to not-quite break even. We’ll probably go
again in a month or so, or go to the other casino, which is not far
from this one, called Foxwoods.
The only other thing new is that we did manage to catch the
stray cat we were after. We got him this afternoon and took him to the
vet that the no-kill shelter said to go to. He’s very friendly, and
obviously likes people. He just rolled around on the ground with us and
then went right in the carrier when we put it down with some tuna in it
as a lure. We’ll probably never know what happens to it, but hopefully
he’ll find a new home.