We decided to go to Tunica and the Casinos for our Wedding Anniversary ... since we had never been there before.  We mostly we ate some good food and watched the people.  We had a nice room with a neat in-room jacuzzi.  And had room service for breakfast ...

I figured that if people call Gulf Shores the "Redneck Riviera" ... then Tunica must be the "Redneck Las Vegas" or is that an Oxymoron?  There is definitely lots of glitz ... a little glamour ... and a zillion machines that will accept "all of your money" or at least as much as you will part with ... which in our case was about 5 - $1 bills (which goes a long way in a penny machine).

We saw people with cards that they had a dollar amount loaded onto them that would allow them to play as long as they had not used up all of the money on the card.  The humorous thing about the cards was that most people had them on long springy cords that were attached somewhere to their person ... in affect ... tethering them to the machine.  (Kinda sad when you actually see it ...)  Somehow cigarettes seemed to go along with the money cards ... The tables did not seem to be as mind numbing as endless use of the machines ... but they were more expensive ...

The Horseshoe Casino had a great buffet that included a fantastic assortment of fresh fruit, peel 'em & eat 'em shrimp, cocktail shrimp, and about everything else in the food line that you can imagine ... including way too many dessert choices.

At the Sheraton Steakhouse              At the Sheraton  


Sitting on the edge of the in-room Jacuzzi
 

                      Some of the Nighttime Glitz