Sitting at the dinette this morning, when I raised the shade, I was greeted with this lake view...
Funny... there was a lake there last night. I had to look closer and wipe the sleep out of my eyes: it's a blue tarp to block the view of a bunch of construction equipment and materials behind the fence. I'm staying with "lake view" (in my head).
That building you see in the upper right corner is part of the casino complex here at the Winstar World Casino and Resort. I'll have more photos in an edit.
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Exploring the World...
No, we didn't trade the Aspect for the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria. The RV park we are in is connected with the Winstar World Casino and Resort. Taking today as a kick-back day (after the Texas City Tour and Traffic Jam, yesterday), we went to the casino for lunch and a bit of gaming. It is an impressive casino - it is billed as "the largest casino in the world," and after walking it from end to end, I believe that. A couple views of the exterior...
With the different "fronts" on the exterior, it reminds us a bit of New York, New York, in Las Vegas. And, speaking of New York...
Inside, Joan took this photo of me with a Big Bang Theory machine...
It was just before lunch, and our timing was good: it was delightfully uncrowded...
I was craving Chinese, so we did lunch before "hiking" from one end to the other. There are "themed" areas representing different places around the world...
Thousands of slot machines and gaming tables. Joan had a hankering for "something with a big wheel at the top," (technical gambling description) and I was looking for a poker machine. Apparently, poker machines are very old school and don't provide the noise and flashing lights that the other slots have; it took a while (and asking a couple employees if they had any poker machines) to find them. In the non-smoking section, I had the machines all to myself...
We split up and Joan went to find her choice. When I had about as much fun as I could stand (and broke even), I went looking for machines with a spinning wheel on top... and, surprisingly, found her...
She was just scoring a "Big Win" (it said so on the machine) when I found her. That put her pretty close to even, so not much expenditure for a couple hours of entertainment... and a couple miles of walking around in air conditioned comfort.
On the way back to the RV park, Joan suggested some ice cream at a Sonic on the resort grounds... she did not have to talk me into it.
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If you are somewhere with a reasonably clear sky this evening, step outside and take in the full moon - it is gorgeous! The last "Super-Moon" this year, called the Strawberry Full Moon. No, I didn't dig out a camera, but I did go outside to take in the view.
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