There's a Jubilee in Our Future

With Helen's friend Gail arriving in LV on Feb. 16, we decided to take her to a traditional Las Vegas-style show, "Jubilee" which has been at Bally's for years and years.

So this morning I drove to the Strip to cash a couple of winning SuperBowl tickets and pick up our "Jubilee" tickets. I parked at Bill's Gambling Hall, since that's where I had to cash the fb tickets, pocketing $117. After getting paid for the SB bets, I played a little blackjack there, winning $60 in about 30 minutes.

I went back to the sports book and invested $40 in two hoops bets - $20 on the OSU-Purdue game over 129 points and $20 on Akron -8 vs EMU. Both bets have won and I'll be collecting about $78 for those later this week.

Then I walked across Flamingo Avenue to order the tickets at Bally's. There was a short line at the ticket counter, but most of the people were getting tickets for today's version of "The Price Is Right" that is held at Bally's

When I got to the front of the line, I asked the ticket agent, Victoria, if they had any special deals for locals.

"Only for Jubilee," she said.

Great...for locals the "Jubilee" tickets are half off. Since I don't have a Nevada driver's license or ID card, I showed her our recent gas bill that has my name and our LV address on it. That worked. We scored 3 tickets for Feb. 18 right near the front. They usually sell for $75, but with the "locals discount" they were only $37.50 each. With tax, they totalled $113. SWEEEEEET!!!

I decided to head to the southern end of the Strip and drove down to the aging Tropicana. It's not a very fancy place any longer, a gambling dowager near the end of her run. But I've had some good luck there in the past and did again today.

But before I did any gambling, I eased into one of the Trop's bar-restaurants and ordered up some Wings and a beer. The server asked if I wanted blue cheese and celery with my wings and I said "sure." Service was quick and the wings were OK, nothing special.

But I was disappointed when the bill came and I had been charged extra for the blue cheese and celery. What's up with that? The blue cheese was 99 cents and 6 sticks of celery were 79 cents. It's no Bellagio buffet, that's for sure, LOL!

Anyway, I found a blackjack table and ground out a profit of $60. It was time to head home.

For the day, I made $120 playing blackjack and $80 on the two hoops bets. A nice day!

When I got home, Helen had been on the phone concerning Susan's hospital stay. Susan went home today, but doctors were unable to diagnose the cause of the numbness that spread along her left side yesterday. Helen talked with Sharon, Anna and Natalie today and plans to call Norman tonight.

I whipped up a dinner of scambled eggs with corned beef hash, sort of a breakfast-dinner thing that we enjoy once in a while.

Tomorrow our adventure continues...