Laissez les bon temps rouler!!!

Laissez les bon temps rouler!!!

Looking down Canal St. in front of Harrah's

Today was a fun day. Daniel, Augie and myself went to downtown New Orleans. They are two guys that I work with. We started at Harrah's Casino in downtown. We decided to play some slots and mess around there for a while before we walked to the French Quarter. I didn't have a lot of money to play with, so I decided to take it easy and play some nickel slots. I had a 10 in the machine and hit a combo that gave me $50! I decided to cash that and go play some quarter slots. I was looking around the area for some quarter slots and ran across a $1 slot that caught my attention. I decided to play a $20 and see what happens. After 5 plays into it, all these lights started flashing and the credit count started ticking off. 50, 100, 125, 150, 200, 225, 240, 250! OMG I just won 200 something dollars! So with that I decided to play it down to 200 and cash out. Again more lights and I hit the side game. This was a progressive machine and when you played the side game, it would climb up this meter towards the jackpot progressive. It had like 9 tiers to the jackpot and a wheel would spin that had 1-3 levels. Whichever level it landed on is how many spots you moved up the meter. The first spin landed on 2 levels, 60+ dollars. The second spin landed on another 2 levels. Now it is up to $110+. Now comes spin 3... and I get the collect. So now the credit count is up to $360+ dollars!!! I decided to play it down to 300 and then cash out. My mouth is wide open and I cash out at 300. I could not believe I just turned $20 into $300. SWEET!!!!! So now I am done with this casino. I find the other two and we decide to walk. On to the French Quarter.

Augie is Catholic and he wanted to see the cathedral. I have always wanted to see it also. We head to Jackson Square and enter St. Louis Cathedral. It is breathtaking inside. Beautiful murals on the ceiling. Elaborate stained glass windows. It was absolutely beautiful. We spent some time there before heading deeper into the French Quarter.

St. Louis Cathedral

So we walked to Bourbon Street and headed towards Canal St. Just soaking up the ambiance of the French Quarter. It started getting really busy there and my truck was at Harrah's. we walked back to Harrah's, laughing about the things we saw on Bourbon Street. We decided to have dinner at the casino buffet and I hurt them with the snow crabs.

It was a fun filled day with great friends. We will go back, no doubt about it! I cannot wait to bring Missy to New Orleans and share that with her. There is one really good thing about being here. There are so many trips we can take when they come and visit me here. It is going to be great to share that with my Family!! I love you Missy, KK, and Briley Bear.