Roulette reject

After another gut-busting dinner, Mama Panda!!!!, Lil' Sis' Panda!!!! and I cruised the casino floor to see if Lady Luck was on our side. We're not big gamblers, unlike the rest of my extended family, so we stuck to the baby games.

First, I tried my hand at the 20-cent slot machines - and of course I went straight to the Wild Panda machine. Well, the Wild Panda gobbled up my money like it was a stalk of bamboo! So, I tried another machine that featured ferocious looking dragons on it. Again, it inhaled my money!

Lil' Sis' Panda!!!! found herself at a roulette table, unable to make sense of how to play. It was a computerized contraption, where the wheel was automated and each player had a computer screen onto which they placed bets. A disembodied computerized woman voice called out where the ball landed and let players know how much time they had to place the next bet.

Combining our wits, Lil' Sis' Panda!!!! and I rode out $100 for about half an hour. We were up to $250 at one point, but we quickly tired of the "strategy" involved (and I just plain quickly tired) so we got kind of punchy toward the end and just bet haphazardly until we finally lost all our money and were free to go to sleep.