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As Elvis sang in Viva Las Vegas…Bright Light City gonna set my soul on FIRE, that is exactly what happened to the Tiny Whale. We skimped and saved for months to buy that first plane ticket to Las Vegas, and when we landed, it was nighttime. We picked up our rental car and headed up Tropicana Blvd, and when we came to the Strip and I saw the Excalibur and all the lights of the beautiful Las Vegas Strip, my soul was definitely set on FIRE!!! It was a trip to remember; it was 1

It was 1986 on a cruise to the Bahamas, and our first stop was in Freeport, and we stumbled onto the casino on the island. We went inside, and I sat down at a .25-cent slot machine. Back then, all of the machines were one-armed reel bandits, and there were no penny slots. I hit something, and the quarters started spilling out of that machine and clanging into the metal tray, and the lights and sounds were going off, and I was HOOKED for life. I was screaming like a wild woma