Indian Casino near Jackson

We arrive barely on time to the conference spot at the Jackson Rancheria. About 3 miles out of town the road steeply rolls across the foothill landscape. Its a beautiful road with designer lamps along the way. The road is very steep as it pushes itself up the a set of three smoke filled auditorium sized rooms on one side of the road, gentrified to look like an old town city, and four story parking lot separates the casino side from the hotel side.

We navigated through to the self park area and headed up the pedestrian bridge to the hotel side. We arrive at 11:30. We tried to check in.. well no.. rooms were not available until at least 2pm. Sue was very tired. So she sat down at the couch after joining us for the Brunch complete with an omelet making station, salmon in cream sauce, fancy breakfast rolls and the usual breakfast stuff, sausage, bacon, eggs and toast. She thought that she could rest on their couch.

She was turned in by the security.. and told she could not do that. I found out about that and got her out to the car where she could lie down and rest. At 3 o'clock the room as ready.
It was a nice room. It has a handicapped shower set up. It was clean and comfortable. the conference continued and I went to another session. For dinner she joined us again. It was Italian spaghetti, lasagna, and chicken breasts with red sauce on it. They had a wonderful individual circular tirmusu deserts,and a really good amaretto and chocolate cake. We listened as the speaker talked about the CTA pac and the candidates and the propositions the organizations support.

We enjoyed a wonderful piano pan playing in the smoke free lobby. It was beautiful. After Sue turned in, I went down to see what the casino was like. It was very interesting. It was the first time I have been to one that had no sound of crashing coins. No coins were permitted. The machines would take paper money. When the gambler was through, a button for cash out yielded a slip with a bar code on it. The slip could be redeemed for money at the many kiosks. Cashiers were also available in the cages to redeem the slips. I gambled 40 dollars. At one time I was up 16 dollars. In the end I walked away with 36 dollars in my pocket. In the morning, I walked down to get an espresso (at their Peet's). I put 10 dollars in the quarter machine. I walked away when I had a jackpot that restored by 10 dollar and gave me a quarter to boot.

The next morning (Saturday) we faced an interesting dilemma we arrived ten minutes in to the breakfast brunch.. basically eggs,bacon,ham, sausage, and browned potatoes with not enough eggs. The worker said that she put out all that there was supposed to be. The CTA secretaries demanded more eggs to be made.. she said that more could be had but it will take 5 to 10 more minutes. By the time our president made it down.. everything was restored.

At 10 o'clock the conference restored and we were off to the conference rooms. At 11:15 I got a phone call from Sue who called me up and said that we were being thrown out of room by the housekeeping staff. That was it.. we picked up and headed out. I missed out 2 hours of conference.. I told our president why I was leaving.. she wanted to take them on.. but it was really too late.

I think that the CTA conference was at cross purpose to the hotel. They want people to come in and gamble lose their money and stay. We wanted a good place for a conference. Somehow both needs were not met. I didn't hear any teachers that lost big sums of money or that won them for that matter either.

: ( Pat