Due to space considerations, I think collecting casino "player cards" make much more sense! This is my current collection of 25, although we've been to several more casinos where we didn't bother to get player cards early in our travels. Now I do simply to see how many we can get. I have also started a fairly good-sized collection of grocery store "savings cards" although those we pick up in self-defense against local prices. Now I just need to figure out a good use for those stretchy cords that the casinos give you with every card as I feel guilty throwing them away. Surely some bored person has found a wondrous secondary use for these little monsters that have tangled themselves up in the back of my junk drawer.
The reason I bring up casino cards is that we drove to the landing at the London Bridge today to take the casino boat shuttle to Havasu Landing Casino on the California side of the lake. If you go into the gift shop below Barley's Brewery you can get free passes to ride the shuttle, otherwise it's two dollars per person for a two-way ride. Havasu Landing is a tiny casino in a nondescript stucco building that looks more like a tired lakeside bar and grill than casino, but there are about 200 slot machines ranging from penny slots to dollar slots inside and it's very clean and pleasant. The slot machines themselves are pretty tight, but having lunch at The Landing restaurant at the casino while looking out over the lake through huge floor to ceiling windows made the afternoon worthwhile. We highly recommend the beer-battered fried mushrooms which are not Atkins-friendly but are very good! For entertainment while eating we watched a pied-billed grebe (a very small water bird with big round eyes) attempt to eat a crawdad or some multi-legged creature that was half the size of the grebe himself. Somehow he managed it. I think the next time we're here in town we'll ride the shuttle, have a nice lunch with a great view and forget about the gambling!
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