We drove up to Taos on Sunday with the goal of buying leather lamp shades for the lamps Jake and his dad built (see photo!). We were going to have breakfast at Michael's up there, but there was an hour and a half wait so we got breakfast burritos at a little Mexican restaurant instead. We found the lamp shades we wanted at a store we had visited on our last trip to Taos, then wandered around town for awhile admiring the art and other goods on offer.
On our way home we decided to drop by the new Buffalo Thunder Casino and Resort on the Pojoaque reservation. There has been a lot of hype about this place with dramatic ads featuring black clouds and lightning bolts. Their grand opening featured the Flying Elvises which I was very sorry to have missed. From the outside it looks like a gigantic adobe structure with clay pots and luminarios on the rooftops. We went into the casino first - a dark room lit up by the glow of hundreds of slot machines. Neither of us has been in a casino for years, and we had a hard time figuring out how the games worked! We asked a casino hostess, and she wasn't sure either - she had never set foot in a casino before getting a job at this one. But we did manage to feed a dollar bill into one machine that was around a penny a game and press buttons until we lost all but 25 cents. The machine then gave us a ticket voucher for the quarter which we fed into the machine next to it. On that one we only got to push one button before losing our quarter!
After that we went upstairs to the restaurant/hotel area. They do have a lot of nice Indian art up there, but it still feels like a hotel. It's operated by Hilton. Anyway, now we've been there and won't be wondering if it lives up to the hype!
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LOVE the lamps (and shades!)
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