Olive Pit & Rolling Hills Casino

We're spending a couple nights at the RV park attached to the Rolling Hills Casino in Corning, CA. It was a good stopping point to break up the drive down to Grass Valley for the dog show this weekend. There is a golf course attached to the casino as well which offers a 2 for 1 special for golf and the casino buffet on Wednesdays. We planned to take advantage of that, but with temps in the 90's by 10:00 am, we changed our minds. Risking heat stroke for a round of golf didn't seem like such a good idea. Tom did manage to get out to the driving range to hit a bucket of balls this morning though.





We decided to take the short drive to visit the Olive Pit store in Corning instead. Corning is a huge olive producing area and the Olive Pit is a huge gift store featuring just about any kind of stuffed or marinated olive you could imagine.



Jo is not an olive fan but Tom was in olive heaven. He chose habanero/garlic stuffed olives, almond stuffed olives, and smoke flavored olives to buy. If we had a bigger budget, he would have bought several other varieties as well.



We got our first close up look at olives still on the tree on the trees outside the store. We were surprised that they grow in clusters similar to grapes.



We learned that just about all olives everywhere are still harvested by hand because they are so easily damaged.


Once we left the Olive Pit, we stopped in at the casino to make a donation. It wasn't that bad, we played the slots for a couple of hours on our $20. We were up to about $30 for a little while, but big surprise, we gave it all back. It was entertaining anyway.

Now we're back in the motorhome relaxing with cocktails and thankful for air conditioning. It is 104 degrees outside! The dogs will just have to wait a few hours for it to cool down before they get their after dinner walk.