We drove down to the new River Spirit Casino in Tulsa last night, and I just have to ask. Why are all Indian Casinos super ugly? This think looks a giant red cardboard box that someone left out in the rain. The Cherokee Casino in Claremore doesn’t look much better.
We drove around for what seemed like thirty minutes looking for a parking space, and wound up parking about as far south and as far away from the Casino as possible. I think we crossed the Equator when we started walking to the building. We saw the shuttle kiosk, but thought he could probably walk to the building before a shuttle arrived. About thirty feet beyond it, we saw the shuttle coming, so we turned around and headed back to the kiosk. The shuttle saw us…it had to. We were in the middle of the street because there are no sidewalks. But the shuttle just kept on going. I started to pick up one of the decorative rocks in the lot’s many beds and throw it.
Hours later, we finally made it to the building. Stepping over a couple of destitute gamblers laying in front of the door, we went inside. Suddenly, it was like being in Las Vegas, minus Sigfried and Roy. I was actually impressed with the look of the place.
Now, I’m not really a gambler, so I couldn’t tell you if the slots are loose. Some of the women I saw looked like they were, though. My real reason for going was to try out the Thursday night seafood buffet. Not surprisingly, it was on the northern end of the building. More walking.
The buffet is very stylized and organic looking. Sections are divided by retainers with wooden dowel rods sticking up out of them, giving an impression of a tall grass prairie. The lighted globes hanging from the ceiling look like Oklahoma hail stones. And over at this one table were a bunch of people that looked like bison.
The food was good. The snow crab legs were some of the biggest I’ve seen. They were delicious, but I couldn’t keep my cat away from me when I got home later. While we were eating, an ambulance pulled up to the building. We inquired about it when we left, and they told us someone one a car and had a heart attack. I hope they were kidding.
