Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Day 23

The next day in Reno we woke up, got some lunch, and then went to an auto museum that we read about in the hotel brochures. We figured it would be a small museum with maybe 50 or so cars in it. We were very wrong. The museum was almost entirely donated by the founder of Harrah's casino. He donated a total of 175 cars and there were many more that were on loan from other private collectors. They had cars dating from 1896 all the way through 1994 hot rod. Once again no pictures because we figured we wouldn't be allowed to take any because every other car museum hadn't let us. Anyway a few of our favorite cars they had were a beautiful copper bodied Rolls Royce, a 1933 Cadillac 16, a Hemi Belvedere, a 1973 Cadillac Eldorado that belonged to Elvis, a 1953 Corvette that belonged to John Wayne (all original survivor), and a Don Garlits dragster. Needless to say it was a great museum. After that we went back to the hotel and played some more blackjack in the main casino this time. We both lost a little bit more money again then we went to dinner. After dinner we went back to the casino and started playing again. This time I played blackjack and Joseph played craps. We had a lot better luck this time and in the end I cashed out with $1000 and Joseph cashed out with a little over $1200 (see pictures). So once again the casino actually lost money to us. After that we called it a night and went to bed.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Before I moved to Georgia, I saw "Big Daddy" Don Garlits at Bristol Speedway race his dragster at the Spring Nationals....he won....

b.roe said...

Mom seriously validates her coolness by:
a.) knowing of a famous drag driver
b.) knowing said racer's nickname
c.) having been to Bristol
d.) having paid attention to the race while being there

Go Mom go.

Anonymous said...

If I know Mom, she had probably just come over from Kingsport to run her 55 chevy hotrod in B Class. Where else do you think these boys get their need for speed.