Thanksgiving the Oklahoma Way

This was Last years goods...





As it turns out, Landon had a gig on Thanksgiving day, so we threw tradition out the window, and headed to Oklahoma to a Casino to spend our Holiday.
We got everything ready to go, and realized that we had not yet ate breakfast, and it was getting closer to lunch time, so we planned to grab some fast food once we were out of town…Easier said that done on Thanksgiving day! We stopped at 4 places before we found one that was open. As it turned out, it was one of my least favorite places, but we made due!
We than drove another 5 or so hours, and got to the Casino, went to check into our room only to find out that the Casino had been without power for a few hours, so there was no TV, and no Thanksgiving dinner…We were not even sure there was going to be power for the band to play.
But they worked feverishly, and got the power back on, that is when the fun really started…because there were people gambling when the power went out, the casino had to match each of these people with the machine they were on (via the security cameras) Then get them all their money.
The gamblers were quite restless, and the Casino’s do not sell any alcohol on Holidays, so everyone was double mad…That is when the Casino decided that if they could not sell it they would give it away. So there was beer on the house all night for everyone…It made the band happy, because the beer of coarse was only to be had in the “bar” area where they were playing, so they had quite a crowd!
Lets go back to the No thanksgiving Dinner part. I was sorely disappointed since I was looking forward to good dinner.
Well, since the power had been off, the band actually went on an hour later, so Landon and I went in search of a Thanksgiving dinner! We figured that most regular places were closed, so we headed down the freeway to find a truck stop with a diner. We found one, and lo and behold they had a Thanksgiving dinner Buffet. It was definitely Truck stop food, but I was so happy to find thanksgiving dinner, that I did not mind at all!
All in all, it was a Thanksgiving to go down in the books as definitely out of the norm. But we really did have a good time! I was content to be able to spend it with my husband.