Chinook Winds

So we took a mini vacation in the middle of our Oregon vacation up the coast at 

Chinook Winds Casino and Resort.

 

They had this awesome package for a room right on the beach, with money to spend on food, gambling and even some to check the kids into a great little play club so we adults could get some much needed shopping time at the local outlet mall.

Inge and Kaitlyn drove over to meet join us.
The beach was beautiful.  Windy, but beautiful.  

The kids spent most of their time digging a hole in an effort to get out of the wind.

This was the view from our balcony.

We really could not have asked for more.   Its was beautiful

Inge and I shared a room and mom stayed with the kids. When we got up the first morning, this is what we saw from our balcony.   The kids already had mom up and on the beach by 7:20.   Apparently, they needed to get an early start on their hole.

It was so windy, Chloe had taken to walking backwards during her search for items to decorate their hole.

And when they weren't diggin' their hole, they were feeding the seagulls from the balcony.

(the grateful seagulls)

And another beautiful night sitting on the balcony.

Mom watched the kids while Inge and I headed to the casino to make our millions.

Did you know it's pretty much all electronic now?    No more coins dropping into the tray.....

God I loved that sound!

Now you just print out a ticket.   Not too exciting.   

Although the machines did do that sounds of coins dropping...but it wasn't really the same.

So Inge and  I figured out that, if we cashed out every time we won, we could get back some of the money they gave us to play (from our package).   

Of course, this took a while since we were playing mainly penny slots.

Our average pay outs were about 5 cents....

(I am NOT kidding, enlarge Inge's photo and you'll see!)   I think I even had some two cent payouts.  

We did play a few quarter slots and a dollar slot ONE time.  But that really was WAY to rich for our blood.

I think Inge won more than me, but I hit a jack pot with an $11.00 payout.  Which doesn't sound like much, but I was playing the penny slot at the time....For all I know, I may have hit the only jackpot there that night.

All in all, I think we walked away with about $83.00.   

That's HARD, COLD, CASH my friends!!

(no, not EACH, $83.00 all together, but WE considered that night a huge success!

 

We had a blast! The best part was that the package included all this money to eat with, so we ate, and ate, and ate.....I think I gained about 7 pounds.

You know, I just realized we didn't get any photos of the food!

It wasn't all that pretty....but let me tell you, the dessert bar was fantastic.  

We learned that you needed to get there fast to get the good stuff.  

So the second night we headed straight to the desserts before we got our dinners.  We started with 5 slices of key lime pie and 5 cream puffs sitting at the table, before we had even gotten our dinners.  (and NO, none of those items were for the kids, we made them get their own)

You'd think we would have been embarrassed about all those desserts, but really, we had no problem with it.

Stay tuned for my next post.....

"My first weigh in at Weight Watchers"