Oct 25, 2008
We just returned home and thought I'd share a few pictures until Rachel more formally blogs. As part of our self-directed walking tour of San Remo. we decided to enter this large casino to look around. Once inside, we decided to try our hand at the slot machines. I felt like I had just arrived from Uzbekistan with a bucket of .25 euro chips and someone said here, feed this to the machines- they're hungry. Okay. What is it doing now??! Why does it say "Game over?" When did it start... to be so soon over? Did I do it right? Did I lose? Oh maybe I won- it says to go again. How do you know when you win? I looked over at Rachel who was just staring, trancelike, into her machine holding her very own bucket of chips. I at least kept moving, going from one machine to the other, hoping one of them would reveal its secret but not one was forthcoming. Rachel in her stillness fared no better. From other machines I could occasionally hear a cascade of chips let loose but even then the "feeder" sitting in front of the machine seemed so sanguine that I thought hmmm, nothing too exciting there. So after what felt like an eternity but was actually less than an hour, we agreed to blow the joint. I'm sure the people surveying on video camera were sorry to see us go- such free entertainment! Two crazy old ladies- one sitting and staring, the other on the move, then staring. Every now and then, one of them feeding a chip. I wanted to tell them that somebody else must have been feeding all the machines- and they were now full.
On the other hand we have had no problem drinking vino and playing cards on our terrace overlooking the Ligurian Sea...which begs the question, what exactly is Rachel looking for with those binoculars- a mermaid, perhaps? A mermaid who knows how to play the slots?
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