The Fun Bus, was exactly that...a whole lot of fun. The driver's wife was the emcee, and she was hilarious! On the drive to Wendover, it's tradition for the passengers to play a game of bingo, being able to win dollar bills and little gifts and prizes. The whole thing was pretty wild for several reasons.
First, Marsha (the bus driver's wife) shouted that our bus didn't have a PA system, and that she would have to speak loudly to be heard. But then she noticed a toy voice modulator on the seat next to her...who knows why. (A voice modulator looks like a megaphone, but transforms the voice, usually with a few settings like Darth Vader, Child, Robot, and Alien) Thinking it was a megaphone, she picked it up and used it to give the Bingo instructions, sounding like C3PO the whole time.
The bingo cards we used were made to be portable, with little red, transparent windows that you could slide over the number if it was called out. Instead of balls that were drawn to give the numbers, Marsha had some playing cards with letters and numbers, that she was supposed to use to call out the numbers during the game.
The way we played was with a letter at a time, trying to win by columns, as Marsha thought this would be easier. That means she would only call out the B's first, and whoever got them all first would win. But what Marsha didn't realize is that she was supposed to move on to the next letter after a winner was announced. Instead she called out every single number to each letter, meaning that everyone on the bus called out Bingo! five times that day. It was sad (and funny) that neither Marsha, nor her daughter who was helping, didn't realize their mistake, and Andrea and I couldn't help but laugh as we overheard her say, "Wow, there sure are a lot of winners tonight."
The night was fun after we got to Wendover. We were given five dollars in cash, a voucher to a free meal at the buffet (the regular price being $19.95), five dollars free play on the slots, and some Lucky Bucks for the tables, which I didn't use. It was way fun. The buffet was awesome, as it always is, with prime rib, seafood of all kinds, and anything else imaginable. It was delicious, to say the least.
I brought fifty bucks with me for the trip, fifteen for the bus ride and the rest to play around with. I wasn't a "big winner," but after all was said and done, I got back on the bus to go home--at 3am because of daylight savings time, meaning I climbed into bed at 6am--with fifty bucks still in my wallet, meaning I not only didn't lose any money, but I also won back the money it cost me for the bus.
So overall, it was a fun little mini-adventure.
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