Friday, February 17, 2012

a place where you can't blame the liquor

Hey there.  Hard to believe, but I took a day off, maybe to re-group (this was supposed to be my cruise week, you know), and am here at Mystic Lake Casino.  I used one of my free hotel nights, and it's only a half hour or so from home and a decent short getaway.  Work-wise, I'll make up for it over the weekend.

Mystic Lake has become quite a sprawling complex, and I like it even though it has a lot of slot machines that are too complicated for me to understand, so I mostly avoid them, which is a probably a good thing.  The hotel rooms are nice.  What is weird about Mystic Lake is that it is a totally alcohol-free facility -- booze isn't even allowed in the hotel rooms.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't alcohol-free gambling not what nature intended gambling to be?

3 comments:

ruthie said...

I've only been to Mystic once. I couldn't understand the concept of not having a drink while gambling so I never went back.

Howard said...

@Ruthie -- One of these days, I'll Chacha the question. I assume it's just something the tribe decided and people have just gotten use to it, mostly because it is so close to the Metro area...

ruthie said...

I figured it was a tribe thing. I rarely ever went to casinos anyway, but it was just too weird. I'm not a drinker, but it just went hand in hand to get a free drink while playing. It's better I don't gamble money I don't have anyway :-)