Casino @ St. Ignace

Alex and I were both off on Tuesday, we went to try our luck at the casino in St. Ignace (the city that links with Mackinaw City via Mackinac Bridge). After lunch at the cafeteria, we took the 12:30pm ferry out to St. Ignace.

view of the Grand Hotel from the ferry

the weather these days has not been very good, it was cloudy and windy all day long. The Shepler's staff was very nice to assist us by calling the casino shuttle to pick us up. We waited for about 10 min b4 the shuttle arrived.

on board the free shuttle to the casino

at the entrance to the casino building

we signed up for a free Northern Rewards Club which will allow us to accumulate points on the cards when we play the slot machines. Alex and I each won about $5 using the free promotional gold tokens.

We then moved on to try our luck at the blackjack table. We were quite lucky at first but ran out of it after some time.

managed to take some photos discreetly inside the casino

We moved on to play roulette when the table opened at 5pm. We managed to recoup our losses plus cover some of our expenses at the end of the day.

We left the casino at about 7pm to catch the 7:30pm ferry back to the island. We met Firat (Banquets) and Evren (Bellman) in the casino. We were on the same ferry back to the island.

when we alighted from the ferry, Mingna, Xuemin, Jiamin, Sam and Charlie were waiting at the dock to board the ferry to St. Ignace (Greyhound terminal) for their Chicago trip.
Firat and Mingna; the rest with Alex and I

As Alex and I haven't taken our dinner, we went to the Quorum to find more people to eat with us in downtown. We managed to find Lydia to come with us. While waiting for Lydia to get ready, Wan Sin and Alex played a few rounds of table-tennis. Lydia wore her 'bee-hive' cap.

We went to Seabiscuit Cafe for dinner! pink lemonade and hot chocolate drinks!

we ordered chicken noodle soup, sweet potato fries and pork ribs

we added a plate of macaroni cheeseballs, the food was not bad.

took some photos outside the restaurant after our dinner, it was already around 10pm.

we dropped by the cafeteria for some drinks, took some photos with the people there
Erica, Ivy and Albee; Kang Xi, Sun Ke and Siyu; Ryan and Derek

Derek (our roomie), Alex and I; Alex and Dmytro(server); Dmytro with his roomies