Good Luck!

So yesterday after getting here, seeing the wash on the clothesline and the above ground pool - that thankfully was not listed as an amenity! - and meeting our wonderful hostess (she has the personality for this!), we headed to "downtown Windsor".

Admittedly Windsor is not a huge city, it may have the acreage to be, I'm not sure, but it doesn't have the feel. We went to the biggest venue in town, the casino!
Who hangs sculpture from the ceiling?
Obviously Casino Windsor! I must say they still have the best exchange rate like I expected...$1 for $1...can't beat it. Tim Horton's was $.95 for $1. We exchanged a little cash - $40 for me - and then played a bit and I became a good luck charm.

A guy sat down next to me at a penny machine and said "I'm going to win!" and I said, "OK, if you win, you're buying me a drink." He agreed and proceeded to put his $5 in the machine. He had no clue what he was doing. He'd hit the button and say "What does that mean?" He was betting max limits so before you know it the machine lit up like a Christmas Tree! He got the three bonuses and won 50 free spins, which ended up netting him $109! When he cashed out, he was saying "Where's the waitress? I owe you a drink!" I was going to blow it off, but he kept saying that I helped him so, a drink it is! I'll have a rum and coke! I guess I could have been more creative with the drink choice, but I don't drink, it's all I could think of.

We tooled around a bit more but didn't do much. I won $50 on a nickel machine, but cashed that out and started spending the other $20 I'd committed to this venture. UKFan asked me why I cashed it out and I really couldn't explain, but now I've thought about it. Its something my mother does. You win their money, cash it out and hold onto it and spend what you came there to spend. If you still have cash when you walk out, you know it was your winnings and their money you're taking home. When I cashed out, I had $70, so I'd actually won $30. Good thing since we went to the buffet and it cost $29.70! So...I made a whopping 30cents when it all boiled down.

The buffet is HUGE! Two salad bars, prime rib bar, regular meats bar, Italian bar, bread bar, Mongolian Grill station and a desert ring that's as big as my first floor at home. I think we were there 2 hours...mostly because it takes me forever to eat...but because we could be, just sitting, talking and eating.

When we got back to the room, I found the Canadian penny I'd picked up in the driveway when we got here. I told UK..."See I had Good Luck the whole time!"