My Atlantic City Trip

Hello everyone! It's Tuesday night and I thought I'd finally catch everyone up on my weekend. This past Saturday morning I took a bus trip with my aunt, my friend Marisol and her mom. We went to Atlantic City. I'm not much of a gambler. I usually go play a couple of $20's on either the nickel or penny machines. I always come home empty handed. I went because I promised my aunt that I would take her for her birthday. And Mari's job was organizing a trip so it was perfect. It also gave me time to leave my car at home so that my cousin can have the windshield put in for me. I failed inspection and have to go back before the end of the month!!

So on our way there, we all got to talking and my aunt and her mom were scolding us because apparently we don't gamble correctly. We are suppose to stick to a "hot" machine. By hot I don't mean the machine is better looking tan the rest. LOL No. We are suppose to touch the machine and feel it for warmth. The warmer the better. And if we want to win real money, we should get away from the penny and nickel machines.
So Mari and I decided to devise a gambling plan. We were going to play $20 on penny and nickel machines and then $20 on quarter and dollar machines. After tat, we would have a couple of drinks and go check out te boardwalk.
So after going from one machine to the next (becoming what Mari calls a "slot slut"), we finally found two quarter machines side by side. So we sat there. I was daydreaming (it was way too early for me still) and just kept pushing the "repeat bet" button. Mari likes to yank the slot and hear the tinker tanker of her bangle bracelets. LOL Suddenly, I start pushing the button and my machine is stuck! It kept spinning and I wasn't doing anything. I said this to her and she looks over and as we figure out that my machine was going into some sort of bonus round, her machine starts making the same noise!! Nothing was wrong with the machine. We were winning!! As soon as all the noise stopped, we both hit the "cash out" button. Out comes this white ticket with a bar code and an amount. I won $110 and she won $145. Not bad!!! We immediately took our ticket to some ATM look-alike machine where we feed the ticket and it spits out our money!! We stopped the lady with the drink trays and had a pina colada each. It was very loaded by the way. Guess they think if you are drunk, you'll spend more.
Anyway, we ended up taking one of those little cart rides (basically you sit in a basket and some guy pushes you down the boardwalk) down to the fancy mall by Bally's. It was suppose to be an outlet mall but it's really just designer stores. We walked into the M*A*C makeup store and shopped our little hearts out.
When we finally met my aunt and her mom, they wanted to know how much we'd won and we proudly showed them our small plastic bags. They both just looked at us and then gave each other this knowing look. Guess we aren't as good at gambling as we are at shopping!