April 2, 2018 - Gambling
As you know my humans and I are in Nevada. Nevada is also called the Silver State because silver played an important role in its history and economy. Its native name is Sage-hen State due to the many sage bushes. The Shoshone, Paiute and Washoe tribes inhabited the land that is now Nevada.
The first Europeans that explored the region were the Spanish. It became the 36th state in 1864.
Nevada is largely desert, well I figured that much by just looking around.
Much of Nevada is within the Great Basin, the areas south of the Great Basin are within the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada lie on the western edge.
In the earlier times Nevada was not populated very much. I completely understand why, there is nothing but dust, bushes and cactuses around here. How would somebody want to live here?
Ok, I admit the mountains are beautiful as they change the color during the day depending on the weather and the time of the day. Yes, the sunsets are awesome and the night sky is amazing. But I mean, it’s desert, hot and dry. On the other hand, they don’t have mosquitos here. Maybe I prefer the desert before mosquitos. I am not sure yet, I like to take a bath in the lake too and there is no lake here but salt lakes. I have to think about this.
In the 20th century gambling was legalized and that turned Nevada into a major tourist attraction. Also Nevada is the fourth-largest producer of gold in the world.
Wait a minute. Timmins in Canada was a gold town too. Does that mean anything; my humans traveling from a gold town to a gold state? You think I do not know what gold is? Ha, I know exactly what this is as I love to chew on my mistress’ gold ring. It tastes good but I am not allowed to eat it.
Well, I told you that Nevada is a gambling state. Now you ask yourself how come I know what gambling is? I know exactly what that is, because my humans took our hosts and me to the casino to have breakfast and my mistress gambled for a short while. My mistress used a big machine to gamble and that machine made a lot of noises and played loud music. There were a lot of these machines in the Golden Nugget Casino in Pahrump. Also there were big tables where they through dice and on other tables they played cards or watched a spinning wheel on the table.
My mistress had to put some money into that machine to play and she told me that she could win the money she spent back or maybe more. But she only played for pennies. After loosing a couple of games she won the money back she spent and we left the casino.
The important part of that was the breakfast before the gambling. My humans had pancakes!!!! My favorite food. The pancakes my mistress had were with strawberries and whipped cream on top. But she did not only had pancakes, she had eggs too and bacon. My master had the same but his pancakes had blueberries inside and not strawberries but whipped cream. The smell was so good but I had to behave and could not beg. I never beg in public, I am well behaved. Otherwise my humans would not be able to take me with them. They ate it all by themselves without even letting me taste a bite.
Here in Nevada, at least in Pahrump, you can gamble everywhere, even in the supermarket. My mistress told me these machines she was playing at are called slot machines. Until a couple of years they had a handle you had to pull to make the wheel spin and you had to insert coins. People were carrying paper cubs around with their coins in it. That way they could collect the coins when they were lucky and won. Nowadays you put a bill into the machine and when you win or stop gambling you get a piece of paper which you have to put into a cash machine to get your money or get to the cashiers to get your money. My mistress said she would like to have the handles back.
Now you might ask why my mistress and my master know all this. Can you imagine, my mistress has been in Las Vegas, the gambling paradise, when she was a teenager and my master was here in his early twenties.
Of course my mistress was way to young to gamble back then. She told me she has been to a place called Circus Circus in Las Vegas. This is one of the big casinos in Las Vegas and it was quite famous. There were circus performances in the casino. My mistress had to be on the first floor, where there were games for children and the children could wait there while their parents were gambling. Good thing they don’t have something like that for dogs while their humans gamble. On a second thought that wouldn’t be a bad idea at all. Just imagine all the dogs would be able to play and have fun while the humans gamble. I kind of like this idea.
The first Europeans that explored the region were the Spanish. It became the 36th state in 1864.
Nevada is largely desert, well I figured that much by just looking around.
Much of Nevada is within the Great Basin, the areas south of the Great Basin are within the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada lie on the western edge.
In the earlier times Nevada was not populated very much. I completely understand why, there is nothing but dust, bushes and cactuses around here. How would somebody want to live here?
Ok, I admit the mountains are beautiful as they change the color during the day depending on the weather and the time of the day. Yes, the sunsets are awesome and the night sky is amazing. But I mean, it’s desert, hot and dry. On the other hand, they don’t have mosquitos here. Maybe I prefer the desert before mosquitos. I am not sure yet, I like to take a bath in the lake too and there is no lake here but salt lakes. I have to think about this.
In the 20th century gambling was legalized and that turned Nevada into a major tourist attraction. Also Nevada is the fourth-largest producer of gold in the world.
Wait a minute. Timmins in Canada was a gold town too. Does that mean anything; my humans traveling from a gold town to a gold state? You think I do not know what gold is? Ha, I know exactly what this is as I love to chew on my mistress’ gold ring. It tastes good but I am not allowed to eat it.
Well, I told you that Nevada is a gambling state. Now you ask yourself how come I know what gambling is? I know exactly what that is, because my humans took our hosts and me to the casino to have breakfast and my mistress gambled for a short while. My mistress used a big machine to gamble and that machine made a lot of noises and played loud music. There were a lot of these machines in the Golden Nugget Casino in Pahrump. Also there were big tables where they through dice and on other tables they played cards or watched a spinning wheel on the table.
My mistress had to put some money into that machine to play and she told me that she could win the money she spent back or maybe more. But she only played for pennies. After loosing a couple of games she won the money back she spent and we left the casino.
The important part of that was the breakfast before the gambling. My humans had pancakes!!!! My favorite food. The pancakes my mistress had were with strawberries and whipped cream on top. But she did not only had pancakes, she had eggs too and bacon. My master had the same but his pancakes had blueberries inside and not strawberries but whipped cream. The smell was so good but I had to behave and could not beg. I never beg in public, I am well behaved. Otherwise my humans would not be able to take me with them. They ate it all by themselves without even letting me taste a bite.
Here in Nevada, at least in Pahrump, you can gamble everywhere, even in the supermarket. My mistress told me these machines she was playing at are called slot machines. Until a couple of years they had a handle you had to pull to make the wheel spin and you had to insert coins. People were carrying paper cubs around with their coins in it. That way they could collect the coins when they were lucky and won. Nowadays you put a bill into the machine and when you win or stop gambling you get a piece of paper which you have to put into a cash machine to get your money or get to the cashiers to get your money. My mistress said she would like to have the handles back.
Now you might ask why my mistress and my master know all this. Can you imagine, my mistress has been in Las Vegas, the gambling paradise, when she was a teenager and my master was here in his early twenties.
Of course my mistress was way to young to gamble back then. She told me she has been to a place called Circus Circus in Las Vegas. This is one of the big casinos in Las Vegas and it was quite famous. There were circus performances in the casino. My mistress had to be on the first floor, where there were games for children and the children could wait there while their parents were gambling. Good thing they don’t have something like that for dogs while their humans gamble. On a second thought that wouldn’t be a bad idea at all. Just imagine all the dogs would be able to play and have fun while the humans gamble. I kind of like this idea.
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