We spent six days and nights camping at Firelake Casino near Shawnee, Oklahoma. We were having such a good time playing with Steve, Carol, Larry and Sharon that we didn’t want to leave.
We all went over to the casino for supper the first night and talked for hours. We had a potluck featuring hot dogs another night and stayed out talking until we froze our buns. The guys stayed out even later one night watching Dave’s slides from Viet Nam. The guys also spent one afternoon crawling around our RV installing our new antenna.
Steve and Larry went fishing in the creek but didn’t bring back any fish for us to eat. Steve and I went geocaching while Dave and Carol worked on her computer. I taught Steve to ride my Segway–we’d already taught Larry at the Gypsy Gathering. We went into town and got flu shots–OK that was wasn’t much fun but eating at the Chill & Grill while we were out was since we got to see some of Carol’s photographs hanging on the wall there. She’s a professional photographer and the photos we saw were amazing! Dave and I spent one day huddled up inside reading and playing on the computer; I spent that day in my pajamas which was great! I don’t get to do that much anymore.
It was interesting camping in a casino’s parking lot. Along a creek they had a row of RV sites with water, electricity, picnic tables, and grills. All this was free as was the shuttle over to the casino for those of us who didn’t want to make the long walk across the parking lot. They hoped you’d come in and gamble but none of our crowd are into gambling. We felt a little bad about not paying for the sites so we went in to eat in their restaurant a couple of times. Then I realized–this is a casino. They are gambling on us coming in and losing. It seems only fair they should lose the gamble this time.
TTYL,
Linda