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Hi! I think this is going to be a picture blog posting and I’ll show you all that  I have seen today!

Outside Harrah’s Casino….

Next to Harrah’s is Flamingo Casino!

Next door is Paris Casino……

Across the street is the Bellagio Casino! Very nice…..

This is on the wall before you enter into Planet Hollywood Casino….

Inside Planet Hollywood Casino, we stopped for lunch here…..(very good food!) I love this place…..

Inside of P.F. Chang’s…….

After lunch, we are outside of Planet Hollywood Casino…….

Harley Davidson Cafe – no casino, just a restaurant….

Okay, we are done walking and now we hopped the bus going northbound and I am sitting on the top deck of the bus in the very first seat. Got great pictures this way……Just showing you what I see……

We are just stopping at another bus stop to pick up more people. This is a picture of the Venetian Casino…….

The Encore Casino……

So, that’s what we did today! It’s such nice weather here during the day. Tonight I think we might go to the Hilton Casino. We haven’t been there yet and it’s themed “Star Wars”. I’ll bring my camera!

Tomorrow night I have a get together with some blogging friends here in town. I met them last year at the two day WordCamp conference here and it’s nice to be back to see them all again. Here’s the website: http://lasvegas.beerandblog.com/. Ha! Beer and blog. I love it! Can’t wait to say Hi to everyone again! No beer for me, but I’ll definitely splurge on a Margarita! And talk about Blogging?? Yeah, I’m soooo there!

I hope everyone has a great week. I’ll be back tomorrow!

Hi! Well, the rain is still here and hasn’t let up at all. Flooded areas all over the place. Flooded parking lots and water running in streams down the road. But everything is under control. I haven’t seen any accidents due to the weather which is good.

What did we do last night? We took the pick up truck and visited Palace Station Casino. You can see the Palace Station Casino from where we are staying, but it is across the highway, so you have to take a vehicle out of this parking lot on the main road, over the bridge which goes over the highway and then take a left like you are entering the highway, but instead of bearing left to merge on the highway, just stay on the access road and the casino is right there. The diesel didn’t even have time to warm up!

I like the Station Casinos! There’s are alot of them off the strip. You won’t find a Station Casino on the Las Vegas strip. There’s the Palace Station, Santa Fe Station, Sunset Station, Texas Station, Boulder Station, and many more. They are spread out all around the outside area of the Las Vegas strip. You can’t walk to any of them, you have to drive. So last night at the Palace Casino, I bought my live Keno tickets. OH, the best thing about the Palace Casino is that they have 10 cent Keno!!!!! So I bought 50 games for 5 bucks! To go through 50 games, it takes 5 hours and we didn’t stay there for 5 hours, so next week I’ll have to go back to find out if I won, or maybe I’ll call and find out. The top prize is $10,000. I could be a winner!

So we stuck around the Palace Casino for about 3 hours and I play the Quick Pics slot machines. I should sneak a picture of the Quick Pics slot machines for you because I must say that it is my favorite slot machine. So, anyways, I hit the bonus feature of the Quick Pic slot machine and I won 20 free spins! I love free spins!

So the reels took off by themselves and start spinning. The first seven or eight spins turned out about 5 dollars each and then by the 15th spin it started cranking out the cash and by the time the bonus feature was done, the slot machine payout display showed $559.00. Whoa! Not bad! Not enough to buy an exotic car, but I’m just warming up. I see a big jackpot in my future!

So that was my night. We came back to the RV and watched TV for the rest of the night. I know if it wasn’t raining out, we would of walked around at night and enjoyed the Las Vegas neon lights, but the weather discouraged that idea.

But that’s what you do in Las Vegas, you stay up late and sleep all morning because, basically, nothing really happens in the morning, unless you live in THIS RV. This morning around 8:30am someone knocked on our camper door and Jake woke up and took off like a missile off my bed and started barking at the door. What a super dog!! To tell us someone is at the door. Good dog! It’s some guy that tells us that he owns a Montana “over there” and his TV isn’t working and he was wondering how to get his TV to work. NO, we did not open the door, Dad spoke to him through the screen next to the door telling him to buy a “box” and try scanning the channels again. I guess the guy was okay with that answer because he said “ok, thank you” and walked across the parking lot. Strange huh? Maybe he was an honest guy, maybe he wasn’t, but don’t be knocking on doors at 8 in the morning in Las Vegas, I guarantee you no one is up. Weird situation huh? What do you think about that one?

Anyways, we were awoken at 8:30am, so we stayed up, and this morning it was still raining and we headed down to the Caesars Palace Casino down on the Las Vegas strip with the help of our bus pass. I got half way there and realized, dummy me, I forget my camera. Grrrrr…. So I managed to get a few snap shots with my Blackberry. YEAH, exactly – forgot the camera, but can’t walk or breath without the Blackberry!

Sorry

So, I know it’s not the best picture quality but it’s something……

We walked through Margaritaville to the Flamingo Casino (love Margaritaville) and just did some casino hopping…….

This is a picture of a statue inside Caesar’s Palace…..ugh, poor pic quality. I’m sure we will go back there and I’ll bring my camera next time….promise!

Inside Caesar’s Palace. It’s huge inside……there’s many shops and a huge casino inside. I didn’t win any money in this place today…….

We ate at Planet Hollywood inside Caesar’s Palace……

Hello Rocky!

And the Terminator has it’s own drink! In case you can’t read this, it’s a strange concoction, it says: A cyborg’s mixture of Rain vodka, Don Q Cristal, gin, triple sec, Kahlua, and sweet & sour splashed with cranberry juice then topped off withHmmmmm….thanks, but I’ll pass……. draught beer. This one will leave you saying “I’ll be back!”. I’m not too sure about this drink. I’m sure it’s good, but all that alcohol, juice, and beer mixed together.

So, that’s what we did today! Super fun day despite the weather. This afternoon (it’s 4pm now) we are relaxing in the RV. Jake is doing good, just fed him and I can see that he’s sleeping right now. The weather channel is on TV with predictable news about the wet weather.

I wanted to mention to you that when I started this blog, my purpose behind this blog is to tell you an entertaining story, well, half way entertaining story for you to follow me around this great big country, but the opposite has happened. Recent comments that have come in to this blog has entertained me. When someone leaves a comment to my blog, it pings my email account on my Blackberry instantly and I read it and approve it or deny it. A few times recently, I’d be plopping my money into a slot machine and dying laughing at your comments. You guys crack me up! And I just wanted to mention that to you!

A comment came in yesterday wanting to know about my current situation about my bicycle accident injuries, how it was healing up and all. After 10 days, my face has healed up nicely, you can’t see any marks at all. My left knee still has a bruise about the size of a half dollar coin still healing. Yeah, a bruise still healing after 10 days, wow. The black and blue has turned to a dark red. And both the palms on my hands have a long way to go to heal completely. There are still several skin layers missing that still needs to naturally repair themselves. But! But, nothing hurts anymore, so I’m a happy girl! Thanks for asking!

I’m not sure what we are doing tonight but I’m sure we are going to venture out somewhere. I’ll bring my camera, because when we leave the RV, there’s no telling where we might end up and what we might see! Have a great night and I’ll be back tomorrow!

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!

Hello! How are you doing today? Me? Excellent! I’m in a yappy mood tonight, you have been warned! Ha!

I got one comment yesterday which makes me laugh because I see how many visitors I get everyday and that number is never under 50 visitors a day, sometimes getting as high as 120 visitors a day. I’m going to assume that around 25% of the higher number found my blog by accident looking for something else. Ha! And yesterday I got one comment from a reader that has a blog just like me! I like reading blogs and this RVer is traveling my way! You can read his blog by clicking HERE. Maybe we will cross paths someday and say Hi! That would be great!

Hey, it’s my little buddy’s birthday tomorrow, or today, whenever you are reading this (born Jan 10, 2002)! Now does my email address make sense to you: dpjake11002@aol.com. My initials, his name, his birthday!

I know I’m talking about tomorrow, but I’ll get to talking about today in a minute, but I have tell you about my pal, Jake! (Blogging gives you the right to have run-on sentences, I just noticed that!)

Anyways, most of you know I have a dog. I got him at a pure breed Maltese breeder in New Hampshire. He was 12 weeks old when I got him with all his little paperwork (shots, AKC paperwork, family tree, etc.) Yes, ha, he had family tree paperwork. Anyways, the day we when to the breeder’s home and picked him up, he crawled inside of my jacket, and I knew that was my going to be my buddy. The breeder lady asked me “We call him Snowball. What are you going to call him?” I simply said, “Jake”.

Tomorrow, he turns 8 years old.

So tomorrow will be a Jake day. He’s pretty easy going……go for a walk, bike ride, lay out in the sun. He’s on a strict diet, so no extra snacks.

I’ll post some pictures of him here…

Tiny little guy. He found his spot on the couch of the RV when we first got the Montana last winter….

This next picture was when we did the Animal Rescue League Walk in New Hampshire this past summer……we were relaxing after the walk. We raised $55 dollars for the Animal Rescue League.

And this next one was taken Nov 20, 2009 at a Customer Appreciation/Open House at a local Harley Davidson shop in Manchester, NH. That’s a pleather Harley Davidson Jacket he’s got on……soo so spoiled……

Well, that’s my baby and we hang out and do a lot together.

So what did we do today? Not much in the afternoon. I was online and watching TV most of the day. I sat outside and some people riding their bicycles by stopped to say Hi and small talked for a little while.

Simple day today and then tonight arrived and we went out to play at the Quechan Casino. It was busy there, but there was plenty of slot machines calling my name! I was doing pretty good. I put a $20 in the slot machine and my balance went right up to $74 dollars! Couldn’t believe it.

So I decided to push my luck and I don’t normally do this at all, but I saw a $5 dollar slot machine that I usually hyper-ventilate when I walk by because it’s soooo expensive to me. But today…..something just seemed funny, so I decided to take $20 of the casinos money I won. That’s how I justified it. If I win some money from the casino, it’s the casino’s money I’m playing on.

So anyways, I put $20 in the $5 slot machine and I hit the button and the reels spun and landed on the bonus feature. Just like that. Just one spin. I kid you not, couldn’t believe it myself! This particular bonus feature spins the arrow on the wheel above the reels to land on a fixed amount and the minimum you can win on this bonus feature is $100, so I know no matter what I was walking away with at least $100. So the arrow starts spinning above the reels and passes amounts like $750, $200, $800, and lands on $500 and stops! Woo-Hoo, $500 dollars! I couldn’t believe it. All I could think is that I hope this luck stays with me in Vegas!

So, that’s how my day went. Pretty relaxing day with a tad of a profit. Sorry I didn’t take any pictures today, but there wasn’t anything to take a picture of. I wish I could of taken a picture of the slot machine won on today, but I didn’t want to get kicked out. Cameras in casinos is a big no-no down here.

Well have a good night and I’ll be back tomorrow night. Right now it’s 12:51am and it’s officially Jake’s birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAKE!