BINGO

BINGO- a fun game of luck with lettered and numbered balls. My parents are frequent casino visitors. Las Vegas used to be the place of choice because that was the only choice, now since they live in San Diego the pool of blackjack and slot machines has grown to all corners of San Diego County. They can go to Barona, Sycuan, Harrahs just to name a few. Now the casinos have ventured into new territories they have BINGO everynight. Bingo is something we as a family used to play when we were little on all the cruises we used to take. I would have never imagined driving to a Casino to play BINGO, but I must say we had a great time.

We arrived to this large Casino in the middle of nowhere and people were filling in as if there was a free buffet that night but no it was a 'special' BINGO night. The buy in was $25.00 which is more than double what is usually is so of course my Dad's face lite up like a kid in a candy store. We sat down he went up to the counter, well only after we all had to get frequent buyer cards for Sycuan Casino (mind you I will never go again). He came back to our aisle seat right in front of the Bingo annoucer with literally 50 Bingo cards. We played BINGO from 6:15 till 10:45 at night.

At one point I ran to the bathroom because you don't have much time between games and as I was sitting there I said to myself please let my dad win tonight. I quickly washed my hands ran back to play another game of four corners, plus 3 bingo lines and a coverall, no win for anyone in our group. Then the next game a random arrow across your card. I was dotting away with my handy dandy dabber that they provide for an extra dollar of course and I looked over at my dads card and said, "dad you only need one more" and before I knew it the next number that was called was G47 I said yell BINGO. He just looked at me and I said yell BINGO then he finally said BINGO not very forcefully but the host came over looked at his card and confirmed BINGO. The majority of the games were paying out $200 dollars but this was as special game he won $1,000 dollars. It was so fun he couldn't stop talking about it and there were over 1,000 people at BINGO that night so it was a real victory. Needless to say we got home after midnight with an extra grand that we showed up with.

Congrats Dad!