Anniversary Trip

As we discussed options yesterday morning for our anniversary, it developed into a long trip. While researching the casino near Louisville, I discovered that there was another casino - Belterra Casino - that was between Louisville and Cincinnati. Since we were going to the Horseshoe Casino outside Louisville, and since we wanted to try the other casino in Florence, IN, and since we wanted to see the fall colors in southeastern Kentucky at Cumberland Falls State Park, we decided to make it one huge trip and stay at the hotel at the Belterra casino.

We rushed around to get things together for the trip and finally left the fifth wheel at around 10:30. There were some pretty fall colors along the way while driving to the Horseshoe Casino outside Louisville, but none of them were real sharp, vivid colors, so we will wait for better shots today. We arrived at the Horseshoe Casino right around noon:

parked in the garage, and went directly to the casino. It was not crowded at all which we thought was strange for any casino. This one is not a good-paying casino, so that is probably why. We took just a small amount of cash to play the slots as we wanted to use the bulk of our stake for gambling at the new casino. We actually played for a longer amount of time than previously, won a few very small pots, and played for about 2 hours and left.

There were, again, some nice colors along the leg from the Horseshoe Casino to the Belterra Casino, but again the pictures were taken from the moving Jeep and were not real clear. We stopped at a Cracker Barrel along the way to have some dinner before arriving at the hotel and we pulled into the parking lot at around 5:30 PM:

Both of these casinos are on the Ohio River on the Indiana side across from Kentucky. The Belterra ended up being about 40 miles west of Cincinnati. It is a very nice hotel as can be seen from this shot of the entry and lobby off the hotel and casino walkways:

This is a much better casino than Horseshoe. We played all evening and left with $100 that Josie had won on a penny machine. That pays for our room which was only $89 and about $40 less than the room we had when we stayed at the Horseshoe. We returned to the room at almost 10 PM and turned in for the night.

We have a long trip today to get to Cumberland Falls which is about 140 miles from here. Then, we have the drive home from there which is about another 115 miles so it will be a long day. Hopefully, we will get to see some beautiful scenery with great fall colors and we can get some shots to share with everybody.

That's about it from the Belterra hotel room where we are drinking Starbucks Latte's, munching on coffee cake and enjoying our 40th anniversary...