Fun Day at Different Casino

We were anxious to go to the local Casino - Valley View Casino - as we haven't been there before and, also, we were anxious to "get away" from here for awhile. It has an excellent reputation and everybody that we spoke to about it raved about the buffet. It has guaranteed "loose" slot machines so it was a no brainer for us to try. Along with everything else, it is only 20 miles from here, and rated San Diego's finest.

We arrived shortly after 1 PM and stood in the long line to get our Players Club card which carried a free ticket to the buffet - a $32.99 value for each of us. The buffet has lobster featured on the menu everyday. We thought we would play a bit on the slots and then go and have an early dinner before the crowd built at the popular eating times, and would get us home in time to watch the Academy Awards show on TV. So, we hit the slots and it wasn't long before Josie won 2 nice jackpots - one of which was the top prize on her machine - $650. The other one she won was for $250, so our day at the casino was guaranteed to be a good one.

We weren't as lucky at the buffet. It seems like Sunday is always the busiest day. We arrived at the buffet location around 3:30 PM and rather than being escorted into the dining area or being permitted to stand in the long line, we were assigned a seating time - for the 7:30 PM seating. Wow. That meant that we had 4 hours to kill and threw us off our schedule to be home for the Academy awards show. We arrived at the location again at 6:30, hoping to get in and seated a little early. It was actually 7:45 PM when we finally got in. It was worth the wait. It was one of the best buffets we have ever seen. Yes, we had lobster and several different kinds of shrimp, plus just about every other kind of food you can imagine including one of the best prime ribs we've ever had.

The slots were very friendly and we left with almost all of our winnings, despite the extra 4 hour stay, and we will definitely return again.

Today will be used to visit our fifth wheel to swap out a chair we brought to the apartment and pay a visit to the local Best Buy store to have my computer CD drive checked. I tried loading my Turbo Tax software package and it would not read the disc. Neither would it read any other disc I have so I'm holding my breath on that problem. Aside from that, we will relax and enjoy our second day off...