Archive for January, 2010

Hello! I’m still here roaming around Las Vegas. There will probably be alot of blog entries with me “roaming” around this city. But everyday I’ll do something different or see something different to show you. Today we went to Harrah’s Casino, Wynn Casino and Flamingo Casino. I got a few pictures today……..

There’s always a casino under construction here…..

It’s going to take a day by itself to go thru Caesar’s Palace, wow, that’s huge……

Inside the Flamingo Casino……

Steve Wynn’s newest creation – Encore.

Want to rent a car??? I wish!

Oh, this is a new reality TV show they are filming on the Las Vegas strip between O’Shea’s Casino and the Flamingo Casino. I’m not sure about the total details of it, but this one man will be inside of this glass box for 10 days. The first day he will be inside of it with 50 snakes, and everyday after that there will be 5 more snakes added to the box making it 100 snakes in 10 days with him inside of it.

Other than that…..I didn’t win any money today and I’m not sure what we will  be doing tonight. It’s suppose to rain tonight and tomorrow night. I’m off to take Jake for a walk before dark so I hope you have a great night!

Today started off with nice weather but around 3pm it started raining. We started the day off by buying our 30 day unlimited ride bus pass. For me it was 65 dollars, for my parents (and anyone over 60 years old) it was 30 dollars. I got my bus pass from one of those bus terminal machines on the sidewalk that you put money in and get your bus pass. For my parents, we had to take the bus down to the Fremont Street area to the bus terminal station to purchase the reduced fare bus tickets.

After we all got our bus tickets, we walked around Fremont Street, but during the day it’s very limited action there and I lost 30 dollars. We then took the bus down to the brand new casino and mall named Aria down by the Monte Carlo on the Las Vegas strip. The Aria is huge, you can definitely get lost in there. We walked around and explored the mall and casino. This is a three level mall and the casino is on the second floor. It was about lunch time and we ate at the buffet at this resort. Very good food, but remember, you get what you pay for, it was a tad pricey.

When we left the Aria it was raining. We found a bus stop and rode the bus back to the RV park. Now we are just hanging out until we go out a little later tonight. I hope it stops raining. Let’s look at some pictures.

This is Fremont Street…..it looks alot neater at night…..

These following pictures are of Aria Casino and Resort…..

Outside the Aria is a wall waterfall surrounding the valet parking area…..

Where we ate lunch today at their buffet…..this is my strawberry shortcake dessert and brownie……yum!

Well, that’s it for today. We are back in the RV and it is pouring out. It’s actually coming down alot worse than an hour ago. Hmmmmm, maybe I will stay in. I see Jake is a little nervous about the weather. Have a good night.

Hi! I’m back online. We left Laughlin this morning and we are now in Las Vegas. Las Vegas for a whole month! Is anyone going to be in Vegas within the next 30 days?? Let me know!

Okay, first off, I think I will be turning the clock and I’ll be doing my blog postings during the day because we will all be running around wildly at night.

I wanted to show you some pictures from Laughlin!

See us? Second one in from the right…….

Laughlin sits on the Colorado River. So pretty…..

These next pictures are pictures I took with my Blackberry camera! Not too bad for a Blackberry, but I’m sure you can tell the difference between my camera and the Blackberry!

So those are my Laughlin pictures and we did have a great time there.

We are parked and set up in Las Vegas and I can not wait to hit the door running! I’ll bring my camera and show you everything I see.

It’s raining here now and it’s suppose to be raining until Friday.

Hope you are all doing good and thanks for checking on me. Have a great night!

Hi! Wow, we walked a lot today. There’s no shuttle or bus that takes you from casino to casino here, my poor feet. I don’t know how I’ll manage walking around Vegas. Oh, I won’t have to because my unlimited access month bus pass will be my best friend!! Ha!
Okay, today was a great day. Woke up feeling on top of the world ready to take on the casinos and mission accomplished! I won so much money, I gave some to Mom and Dad and took them to dinner tonight at one of the casinos buffet restaurant.
I also took Jake for a walk along the river boardwalk and got some great pictures along the way! I will have internet in Vegas to start posting pictures on my blog again.
Typical gambling day and being a typical tourist! Las Vegas here we come! Tell me, tell me, will you be in Las Vegas within the next 30 days?? Let me knowwwww….. I’ll buy you a free Margarita!!! Have a great night, I’m off to bed and can’t wait for tomorrow!

Hello! You still with me?? That’s good – thanks! We are in Laughlin and loving it. I know what you are thing….She must of won something. You betcha I did. I won 500 dollars on the Wheel of Fortune slot machine on one spin and I won 98 dollars on Keno tonight. Last night when we got here I didn’t win, I lost 80 bucks.
So what did we do today? Took Jake for a walk, went to the casino, took Jake for a walk, fed Jake, watched TV, went to the casino, and tonight I took Jake for a walk and fed Jake! Life is pretty simple here.
We ate lunch today at the Tropicana Casino at their 24 hour diner and it was delicious. Wish I could remember the name of it but the food and staff were super!
The temperature is dropping….not too keen about that and it makes me think about my family and friends back home! I know how you feel!!! Okay, maybe not. I tried to relate.
Gosh, I wish I could write more but everything is pretty simple here. Hope you all are doing good. Oh, and now we have a three hour difference between here and back home.
Well, I’m off to bed and tomorrow I’ll be back. You probably can expect the same routine tomorrow from me. Have a great night. I’ve got to get the extra blanket out now.

Hello and Welcome to Laughlin, Nevada! We have no internet access here so I am updating my blog from my Blackberry.
We left Yuma at around 10am and took our time getting to Laughlin at around 3:30. We stopped at Parker, Arizona to a casino named Blue Water. We have never been there before. It’s a tiny casino and there’s not much too it. It’s easy access from 95 (Nevada side, not California side). Nothing to really brag about there. We spent about an hour there and moved on.
So, we have reached Laughlin and I do love this place. I did get awesome pictures today but you’ll have to wait for me to catch a WiFi to see them on my blog.
We found a nice spot in an RV park here in Laughlin and it was enough space to back up the Montana and not have to unhook the truck. We are walking distance across the street from the casino. On Casino Drive, the street that we are staying on has about 7 or 8 casinos on it. We can easily walk to about five casino but the ones at the end of the Casino Drive is a little further out for walking distance.
Anyways, we are in Laughlin until Monday and then moving northbound to Vegas for about a month. I saw on the weather channel that there is rain in the forecast in Laughlin and Vegas for Monday thru Thursday. It’s okay with us because we are going to each buy a monthly unlimited access bus pass in Vegas for $55 to get around. Not a bad deal at all.
Tonight we visited two casinos and I lost about $40 overall. I’ll try to win something from the slot machines tomorrow. Tomorrow morning we are taking Jake for a walk along the boardwalk that runs right between the casinos and the Colorado River. I’ll bring my camera with me to catch some beautiful shots of the Colorado River and the casinos.
Well, I am a tad tired so I’m signing off for the night. I’ll be back tomorrow. As for my healing from my bike accident on Monday, everything is pretty much healed up and I can see that I will hold scars to never let me forget what happened. Jake’s doing awesome too. He’s asleep on the couch next to me. Have a great night!

Hello! Yes, we are moving on…..leaving Arizona tomorrow for Laughlin, Nevada (<- click for Laughlin tourism website). I love Laughlin, there are about seven or eight casinos that sit on the edge of the Colorado River in Laughlin. I will get pictures to show you how pretty the Colorado River is. I’ve been to Laughlin before and I always look forward to going back. There is an RV park across the street from one of the casinos that we stay at. The RV park does have a paid internet router service but I will not be hooking up to it because we are only staying in Laughlin for two days. There’s really not a whole lot to do in Laughlin but if you are a casino lover – you are in heaven. The pictures I will take will have to wait to be posted when I get to Vegas next week because I can blog to you on my Blackberry everyday but can’t post pictures on my blog from my Blackberry (bummer).

So, what did we do today? Packed up a little bit. It was a tad windy today with winds getting up to 30 mph. We loaded the bicycles on the RV and packed away the outside table and all the chairs. We are not in a rush to leave in the morning. Laughlin is a little over 200 miles from Yuma! Easy skip over to there. Tonight we went to the Quechan Casino, ugh, I didn’t do too well at all there today, lost about 100 bucks.

As for Jake, he’s doing super! He eats his new food twice a day, takes his medicine twice a day and has a treat once a day. I got two emails today asking how he’s doing. I’ve got people calling me “Crash” and asking how Jake is doing. “Hey Crash, how is Jake doing?” Nice, huh? I’ve got great friends! In the slight chance that you were wonder how I’m doing. I’m doing great. Healing nicely, the hand and knee will take a little longer to get better, but I can walk just fine. Don’t need a disability plaque card just yet

All in all, everything is great. Arizona was fun and we did a lot, but time to move on. Hope everyone is doing good and thanks for checking on me (or checking on Jake!) – LOL!

Hi! Today was a pretty low key day. We really didn’t do too much today. I’m still a little sore around my knee and my wrist hurts a bit when I bend it a little, but the good news is that the swollen and bruises in other spots are disappearing slowly, like on my face. Ugh. It still hurts when I blink my right eye. Yeah, I’m still a mess. But, I went out in public today! Hey, I keep thinking, at least I didn’t break a bone. I’ve never broken a bone and don’t want to start at my age (nooo, I’m not telling you how old I am…..ha!). So where was I….

Oh, what we did today! Today was a minor shopping day. We went to the mall area and went to Kohl’s. I like Kohl’s, they have a lot of cute stuff there. After shopping, we ate a late lunch at Red Lobster. The last time we went to Red Lobster was in McAllen Texas last year the day I bought my Blackberry in March. I have a great memory! The Red Lobster is becoming an annual ritual for us. The lobster pizza is to die for! I mean it….Go try it……Wait, bring me with you!

After shopping and lunch, we came back to the RV and relaxed and watch TV for the rest of the evening. I could of went to Card Bingo here at the RV park but wasn’t really up for it. So, I watch American Idol tonight. Yeah, can you believe it, no casino today at all. I didn’t even buy a scratch ticket

I heard on the news tonight we are suppose to have high winds tomorrow – up to 35 mph. Hmmmmm, not sure what we are doing tomorrow.

Jake is doing super too. I brought him out for two walks today. He loves his new food and takes him medicine twice everyday when I can remember to give it to him.

Other than that – I recently discovered how I’m going to go broke. I found a neat website last night – hang on….the website isss….http://www.bplay.com and it’s all kinds of wallpaper themes, ring tones, and games for my Blackberry, it’s a mega-store for Blackberries! A little on the pricey side but I think I’ll splurge on a ring tone or two or three for my Blackberry. Never heard of that website until last night looking for new games for my phone. I must of stayed on that website for at least an hour.

Pretty quiet night. Hope you are having a good week and I do see the weekend on the horizon! Have a good night.

Hellooooo! Well, I see I hit an all time high in visitors today. It’s nice to know that if I want more visitors, I just have to do a few stupid moves. HA! A 40% percent increase in visitors today – an all season high! Everything is good here today…..

The veterinarian called me today from down the street where I took Jake yesterday. She wanted to know how Jake was doing and I told her that he’s doing great and it was like he’s got a new set of batteries inside of him, he’s running around everywhere, and I’ve never seen that tail wag so much in one day! He’s doing excellent.

Now, Jake has always been on dry food most of his life, so today we had to sit down with him and introduce him to canned food. I bought some Prescription Diet food for him – dry food which he loves, and canned food which was foreign to him until today. So we sat down with him and put some canned food in a plate – looks like paste of a tan color – ugh. So, with patience, and a tiny, tiny cheese bait on the food, he tasted it and reluctantly ate most of it and I gave him his medicine (2 times a day) and one Prescription Diet Treat that he can have twice a day. Now, you don’t have to say it, I can read your mind from here……High Maintenance! You betcha’, but he’s so worth it!

As for me….I relaxed most of the day on the couch. Got an ice pack on the knee and bruises are showing in more and more places, but overall I’m fine. I’m sooooo fine that I found the energy to take a trip to the Cocopah Casino this evening. Hey, whatever makes me feel better, right? Anyways, I lost money there, but it was nice to get out of the RV for awhile.

But, basically that’s it. Lounge around all day and casino tonight. Tonight I’ll take some more pain medication for the pain in my knee and the “pain” in my wallet. I lost about $80 bucks tonight – ugh!

Not sure what we are doing tomorrow, but I don’t think we are going too far. Probably just going to spend a lot more time with Jake getting him more comfortable with his canned food.

Hope everyone is enjoying their week. I’ll be back tomorrow Nite Nite.

Hello. What a day. Can I rewind this day and start all over? I’m going to walk you right thru my day – morning to now.

This morning wasn’t too bad. I called the vet here just down the road from us and scheduled an appointment for Jake. If you’ve been following along you know that he hasn’t been keeping his food down at all for the past three days. He eats and four hours later, it come up and lands somewhere on the floor of the RV. Poor little guy.

So enough is enough. Time to bring in the professionals and no, we didn’t change his diet at all. Same food as always. So I called up a local veterinarian at 8am and and ask for an appointment to bring the little guy in. They tell me “Thursday at 3pm.” I laugh! That’s not going to happen. So I say, “How about today?” They say they have nothing open for appointments until Thursday at 3pm unless I do an “emergency walk-in”. Oh, so I ask, “How much is the walk-in going to cost me.?” They say “65 dollar office visit fee” I say, “How much is the office visit if I make an appointment?” They tell me 45 dollars and I tell them I will be in today. They tell me to come in between 11am and 2pm.

Okay, so we hang out until 11am and say goodbye to our neighbor who is leaving for a week to go to Quartzsite. Quartzsite is nice, it’s in Arizona and it’s an hour north of where we are, I’ve been there before, it’s a huge outdoor RV and Sport Expo show. Hundreds of thousands of RVs come together to hang out for a week, shopping, and checking out all the neat RV vendors that come to town to sell what they are selling, from RV club memberships to health products to heater units to everything that you can imagine using in or with an RV. Not sure if we will hit Quartzsite this year, we will try. So we say our goodbyes to our neighbor and off she goes…..

Anyways, we get to the veterinarian office at 11:30 and of course, with being a walk-in, it’s now a waiting game. We see the doctor at 1pm and I’ve never seen any doctor come to a conclusion of what’s wrong with Jake in a matter of minutes. I brought all of Jake’s papers with him from his doctor’s in New Hampshire and after I tell her what he’s recently been doing (being sick), she comes up with “Intestinal Lymphangiectasia” and nails on the head every previous symptoms that Jake has been through in his life. Bloated tummy sometimes? Yes. Difficulty breathing at times? Yes. Low protein level? Yes. So the doctor does a blood test on Jake and it comes back great because of the pills I have him on to increase lack of protein from my doctor in New Hampshire. Yes, this is an on going case of lack of protein that never had a title to it until today.

So, I’m excited to get some solid information on this disease. Yes, it is a disease and I’m happy to know that if I treat it right, the disease and symptoms will settle down and Jake can still live a normal, long, life. She puts him on a totally new food by Science Diet and we get some dry food for him, some canned food for him, and Science Diet even makes treats we can feed him twice a day. She also took one x-ray in case something was lodged down his throat causing the sickness after eating his meal. The x-ray came back perfect, nothing inside of him that shouldn’t be. She also gives him three shots and Jake didn’t care for that too much as he screamed so loud after the third shot, it echoed within the small room we were in. Poor guy.

After I pay the bill of $310.48 to be exact including the purchase of food and treats, we leave the office with our new information and go back home. It didn’t take Jake long to fall sleep on the couch after his big day, so we leave him alone. Oh, before I get too far, if you want more information on Intestinal Lymphangiectasia you can click HERE to read more about it. After Jake falls asleep, Mom hops on the laptop and my Dad and I take the electric bicycles out.

Well, I guess it wasn’t my day because I lost traction on a dirt patch with the electric bicycle and it was all over. I went down and it wasn’t good. Three cars stopped around me to help because I must of scraped up myself pretty bad. So, we managed to get back to the RV and I clean myself up checking out the damage. And damage there was! My right knee is swollen, both my hands are scraped up pretty bad, and the side of my face will probably turn black and blue for the next 20 years with two cuts, one below my eye and one below my cheek bone.

You wait! Someone will walk by me and say, “Ohhh, honey, don’t do that to yourself, leave the guy, he isn’t worth it.” Yeah, I look THAT bad. Ha! Yes, now I laugh because I’m in bed doped up on pills killing all the pain and that Tylenol PM is about to kick in…..

BUT, wait…..wait…..my day isn’t done! Nooooo, you think a couple of scrap and the sight of blood is going to hold me down??? No way, we went to the Paradise Casino tonight! Hey, I had to do something to make me feel better. You betcha we went! And I won! Woo-Hoo! I won 70 dollars on the Quick Hits slot machine and I won 422 dollars on the Keno machine getting 7 out of 8 numbers!

Ahhhhh, my day is now complete. I’m still in pain that is masked by pills, I dread looking in the mirror tomorrow at all the day-after damage, and actually I’m not sure how I will get out of bed tomorrow.

Hey, retirement isn’t always soft and cushy, there will be bumps and bruises along the way that you will deal with. Take it as it comes, take it easy, and tomorrow will be a better day.

Have a great night and thanks for checking on me!