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Michigan City, Day 3
Well, we had another lovely day yesterday, although it was an inside day. We woke up to cloudy skies and pouring down rain. It finally stopped about 12, but everything was saturated, so we decided that yesterday would be a good day to do the one excursion we had planned while we were here. Before we went though, the kids spent the morning playing on their DS and I spent the morning reading.
Daniel has been interviewing some people for a project he is working on, so he wasn't done with that until about 2:30, then we all got dressed and headed for the car and New Buffalo, MI which is about 15 minutes away. For those of you counting...that means another state magnet for our refrigerator...yippee!
We were heading for Four Winds Casino and Kid's Quest. It took us almost as long to find a parking space as it did to drive to the Casino. The place was packed! The first thing we did upon arrival was check the kids into Kid's Quest (and think to ourselves that maybe we should stay there too.
This place was amazing! There was a huge indoor playground, a gym where the kids played things like basketball and kickball, a Wii, other video games, a 'bar' where the kids could eat a snack or meal, board games, tvs to watch, a Karoake area and Katrina's favorite...a Sparkle Salon.
At the Sparkle Salon, Katrina's hair was braided and glittered, her face and arm decorated. She said there were dress up clothes and her favorite Disney programs to watch while she got 'made up'. She loved it! HEre are a couple of photos to show why.
The blue lips are from the slushee she ate just before we picked them up.
While the kids were having the most fun in the universe, we went and gambled a bit. Neither one of us won big, but we had fun for a couple of hours. I mostly enjoyed playing video black jack and playing a game called Leopard's Claw. On that one, I got three leopard faces that showed up on one spin and I got 30 free spins! That was really, really cool! About three times, I won 10.00 on that game, but then it went away again. I was pleased that I left the casino with part of the money I had budgeted still in my pocket! And a cool t-shirt...I'll try to get a picture of it today or tomorrow to show you.
We had dinner at the Buffet. We wanted to go to the Steakhouse, but when we arrived, we were told it would be 9 pm before we could get a reservation (it was only 6....geez!). It was seafood buffet night...yep, I lucked out and got seafood two nights in a row. They had tons of food...kind of like a cruise ship and the desserts were amazing and varied! I had one plate piled with seafood and one with desserts...now that's my kind of place to dine.
We didn't realize until we got back out in the car to go home that the time had moved ahead an hour when we entered Michigan. Daniel and I planned to meet at 7:45. We played a bit longer after we had dinner. But when we got in the car it was 7:00 according to the car clock, but our phones said it was 8:00...Ten minutes later, we were back to it being 7:00 again...that is sooooo weird being next to a time zone change like that.
We came home, the kids watched television and Daniel surfed the web and I read.
cool hair do
great photo of all the boats too
Hi Melissa!
So wonderful to read your blog and see that your children enjoyed their time with us at Kids Quest! I work in the corporate office here in Minnesota--and we love to hear (read) about happy kids and satisfied parents!
If you would be okay with it, I would like to include some of your written blog comments in a casino presentation...
Let me know!
Thanks!
Ann Zenor
azenor@kidsquest.com
