Luck??.....

Originally posted July 20, 2009

As a child, I was lucky. I won all sorts of things. At the church bazaars, I had to wait until later in the day to play the "cake walk" because I would win at least one cake, if not more. I almost always came home with a new gold fish, and according to my mom, I won a case of beer once. I don't remember that, but I guess good for my parents!

In the past few years, I have won tickets to Aggie basketball games and even an autographed guitar by Ray Price. I gave this to my parents because (1) I don't listen to country music and (2) Ray Price was at one of the Starlight Music Series Concerts here in College Station and we took my parents. They loved it and they really loved the guitar which is displayed in their living room.

So...when I finally break down and go to Louisiana with my mom to the casinos...I have no luck. Did I use it all up? Or do I just have luck with drawings and cake walks? Who knows, but I did have fun. We left on Thursday and stopped to gamble for an hour at Delta Downs, just inside the Louisiana border. Then, we had lunch at Steamboat Bill's. Apparently anytime my mom and her friends go to Louisiana, this is a must stop for a meal on the trip.

We then went to Coushatta and stayed there Thursday night. I was amazed at how many people are able to sit at one slot machine for hours on end and throw away their money!! On Friday morning, we left for L'auberge du loc (http://www.ldlcasino.com/home.aspx) for the remainder of our trip. This casino/resort was very nice. I spent a good bit of my Friday afternoon in the lazy river pool outside.

On more than one occassion, I wished I had a bottle of Felix Felicious to help me out with the slot machines. For those of you who have no idea what I am talking about, Harry Potter wins a bottle of this in "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince". The potion is liquid luck.

As I said, I had a lot of fun, but gambling is not really my thing, so I am not sure I will do this again.

Until next time...Gig'em!