Wendover Bound

Saturday Gary and I are leaving for West Wendover Nevada for a four day gambling trip. We are going with some friends of ours, so there are six of us in total.

Last year at Christmas time, our friends who happen to be our neighbors host a party. Alot of alcohol is consumed at this party. This is when our friend was talking to Gary and said that we should do a weekend gambling trip later on. My Gary said that would be fun.

Our neighbor is not a man who forgets things. It was a few months later when he stopped in my office for coffee. This is when he told me that Gary had said that we would do this weekend gambling trip with them. When our neighbor got the special information we would make our reservations.

In August our neighbor got the information and this turns out to be a four day gambling trip. I reminded Gary about this and he remembers agreeing to a weekend trip. Anyway, we are obligated so we made our reservations.

For $130 per person we get the flight and three nights stay at the casino and we had our choice of which casino we wanted to stay at. There are three casinos, so we will be staying at the Peppermill. This is the one in the middle. Once we check in we will each get a packet with coupons and other special little things inside. All we have to do is pay for our meals and the gambling.

Gary has been grumbling about this trip for the past couple months. He is not too sure about spending all this together time with our neighbors. They are very nice people, but he feels that four days will be a bit much. We don't have to spend all of our time gambling. There is a museum there that shows either the history of the Enola Gay or the two bombs, not sure which.

We leave Billings at 2:00 pm and will land in West Wendover at around 3:30 pm. We will come home on Tuesday leaving Wendover at noon and getting back to Billings around 1:30 pm.

Over the past couple days, Gary is lightening up about going and he is looking forward to some vacation time. He is pretty happy when he found out that he will be able to watch his football. I think we will have a good time.

The other couple who is going made their reservations late so they are staying in a different casino. In fact they are going to stay at the one that Mom and I stayed in on our way back from Napa in July.

We will have a good time. I kept all the paperwork to make sure that we get what we paid for and I'm sure we will, otherwise they wouldn't be able to do all the specials. I will most definately be taking my camera so will have photos of the trip. This is our last one until next year when we go to Greece.