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Hi! Today was a simple day. It’s always a good great day when you leave the home with a fixed amount of money and after gambling and eating and tipping the waitresses for the free drinks, you come home with twenty dollars more than you left with. That’s a great day.

That’s what happened today. Did I win a lot? Not a lot, but I stayed within a small profit all day today. I won some money in Keno and I won some money on those Red 7 slot machines! Gotta love those 7′s!

I was talking to someone the other day, a friend of mine back home (he doesn’t read my blog so I can tell ya this story without making him feel bad), anyways, he was asking me if it was really as dangerous out here as he has heard. I would love to know where he “heard” this from. He said, “It must be dangerous there, a lot of robberies, shootings?” I looked around and I admit, I would think twice about walking down a dark back alley here, but  overall it’s pretty safe. I’ve been here, gosh, at least 10 times in the last 15 years and I don’t think I’ve really ever feel unsafe in a heavy tourist area of Las Vegas. Yeah, I said, “heavy tourist” where cops already roam around. I’ve never seen a casino get robbed, I’ve never even seen a gun pulled in Las Vegas, and I’ve never felt my life was at risk here. So don’t be afraid to come to Las Vegas.

Other than that, everything is quiet. Jake is doing great. He’s eating a lot lately and going for plenty of walks around the RV park. I don’t have pictures today, but I’ll get some tomorrow if we do something interesting! Have a great night and thanks for checking on me.

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. 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!

Hi There! How we hanging in there? 2010 being good to you?? Yeah, everything is great here. So, where do I start….

First off, I got an email from a friend back home. Oh boy….this is why I love blogging – Feedback!!! He seemed to of taken a picture off my blog that I posted yesterday and told me what he thought about it….take a peek….

Too Funny! And I got a comment saying why I don’t post pictures of myself? I’ve gotten plenty of email  about this too – bottom line: I’m shy. Okay, moving on…..

Today, we went to Walmart and did some weekly shopping. I took a look at the Apple Ipod Touch! Oh man, I so want one of those so bad!!! Here’s a picture of it HERE. At Amazon it’s $269 and at Walmart they are $299 plus tax. UGH! I’m such a tech-geek! I guess I’ll wait until another big Keno win!

Tonight we are going downtown Yuma. If you’ve been keeping up with my blog, you’ll see that I’ve been to downtown Yuma twice and ate at Lute’s Casino twice (no, this is not a real casino). So tonight we are going to downtown Yuma and eat at Lutes casino. Oh, and Lutes casino sells lottery tickets. We have powerball here.

So basically, that will be my day. I will bring my camera tonight because you never know what’s going on downtown or where we will end up. Pretty uneventful day today, but thanks for checking on me. Have a great night.

If I do some snap some pictures. I’ll upload them to this blog tonight.

Hi! You are going to suffer today, because I’m in a real yappy mood! Alot happened today too! Lucky you, huh? LOL!

Well, my blackberry wasn’t working during these past few weeks, and because of it’s malfunction, I was getting to the point of getting 3G digital panic attacks. So this morning I dropped it off at a Nextel Authorized Service Center here in Yuma. After I told them that I do have insurance on my Blackberry they told me that it would take 45 minutes to look it over and try to repair it. Fine. So I left the Blackberry there for the afternoon (separation anxiety – yep, now I know how that feels – you laugh, but there’s a reason why they call it “Crack”berry).

I called them two hours after they had it and I was explained that upon inspection of my Blackberry they had found some corrosion inside my phone due to liquid damage. Huh? Wait a minute, I take good care of my Blackberry! It’s a part of me, like a third arm!!

So they told me that if I talk on my phone excessively, my sweat left on the phone could of caused the damage. I am in no way impressed by their answer. So they continue to tell me that liquid damage wasn’t covered under my insurance policy and if I wanted to submit an insurance claim there is a $100 deductible. HUH? Whatever! I told them I’ll be down to get my phone.

So after I hung up with them, I called Nextel and inquired about my options. Nextel told me that I could get a brand new Blackberry for $150, but I’d have to wait until March, my one year purchase anniversary on the Blackberry I have now.

Yeah Exactly! Did you get that…my Blackberry didn’t even make it one year. Okay, I may use it over excessively, I admit, I read and reply to my emails on it, my 21 rss feeds comes through 30 times a day, I get tweeted and I got to tweet back, my 10 text messages an hour, my news websites to keep me up with reality, check my bank accounts (again to keep me IN reality ), blah, blah, blah.

I don’t sweat over it, I don’t drool all over it, I don’t drop it. I mean, seriously, on my bed I have three pillows, one for me, one for Jake, and one for my Blackberry. Yes, I am a tad traumatized by this hic-cup with my phone’s behavior. It wasn’t working right, have you ever seen CPR done to a Blackberry……well, you should of been here then. I was in complete chaos. I don’t like it when something I depend on to make my life run smoother breaks.

So, anyways, I go back down to the service center and pick up my phone. What was wrong with my Blackberry is that the trackball wasn’t working right…I couldn’t scroll around the screen or use any of the menu options. So, I picked up my phone from the service center and the guy gave me information to submit a claim to repair my phone. I took the information and left. On the way home I was fidgeting with the trackball on my device and something must of snapped under the trackball, because it decided to work! It’s working!!!! The trackball works great now. So, I’m assuming that once the service guy opened up the device, some “corrosion” must of loosed up and released the tension of the trackball. The Blackberry Gods love me again!!! Yes! Okay, so my life is back on track again. My Blackberry is back to normal and yes, so am I……

What else did we do today? Jake got him nails clipped at a local pet grooming shop here next to our RV park. He needed it. And for lunch today…..take a peek….

It was delicious! I think I’ll make another one tomorrow. What else did we do today? We squeezed some more orange juice with our electronic juice maker and I made some more lemonade. I’m practically living on lemonade now.

Okay, this evening we didn’t have much to do, so we decided that we could eat dinner at the Paradise Casino. I know, I know, I know we said we would not gamble again this year, but tonight was the lassssssst time we would gamble this year…….just tonight, this was the last time….no more gambling this year! Ha!

But, you won’t believe what happened to me at the casino tonight. You aren’t going to believe me, but I swear this is what happened. I was sitting at a slot machine and I put 50 dollars in it. This guy sits down next to me (he was around my age – no, I’m not telling you how old I am ), so he hit a bonus feature on his slot machine. Cool! His slot machine rings and he gets 50 free spins. Wow! The winnings can really add up on a slot machine bonus round with 50 free spins.

So, I sit there playing my slot machine. And as the balance on my machine is going down, his balance is going up. Of course! So, we small talk it about how lucky he is, blah, blah, blah and he asks me how much I’m down tonight. So I look at my balance and it says $33.80, so I tell him I’m down about 20 bucks. So he says, “I believe in Karma, when I cash out my bonus money, I’ll give you $20 dollars so you will be where you were when you started.” My mind goes blank…..I mean, what’s the chances of that happening?? Noooo, this is not a dream….it really happened….now stay with me here.

So, I look at his balance and his bonus feature gave him $223.00. Well, I don’t feel so bad about taking $20 dollars of that if he’s offering it…..and no, he doesn’t want anything in return….I hope he doesn’t. He cashes his bonus out and passes me $20 dollars out of his pocket. I ask “Are you sure you want to give me this money?” He says, “I’m not suppose to be here. If my wife finds out I was even thinking about going to a casino, she’s a mean Mexican, she would get out her brass knuckles, and she’s not shy with them.” Oh boy. So I take my part of his bonus winnings and we say bye and go our separate ways.

So, I have now considered this $20 dollar bill my lucky charm. So I put it in my jacket pocket and head over to the Keno machine in the back of the casino. (Mr. $223 winner walks out the door). I take out another $20 dollar bill (not his $20 dollar bill, that’s my lucky charm) and I put my $20 dollars in the Keno machine and play 8 numbers on my Keno card.

I get down to about $12 dollars and I hit 7 out of 8 numbers on my card! 7 out of 8 numbers! And the display on my Keno screen says I won 1,652 quarters! 1,652 quarters!!!!! That’s $413 dollars! Wow! So, I put my hand in my jacket pocket and think, “Yep, my lucky $20 dollar bill is still there. I’ll hang on to that for a while.” So at the end of the night, when we left the casino, I had my lucky $20 dollar bill from Mr. bonus feature winner and I had a couple of hundred dollar bills. I am a happy camper.

So, here I am back at home and I’m not sure what we are up to tomorrow, but hey, don’t forget to come back and check on me! Have a great night. I’ll be back to yap tomorrow! Hey, my question of the day! Tell me, do you have a lucky charm?? Tell me what your lucky charm is and where did you get it? Did you find it, did you buy it…..tell me about your lucky charm!

Hi! Wow, today was a fun filled packed day. Don’t let me get ahead of myself here, let me start at the beginning…..

This morning was “Jake” time! He wasn’t feeling so good yesterday, but now, he’s back to normal again. Whatever was wrong with him to make him sick yesterday had now moved on and Jake is back to his good old self again. We went for a walk this morning. I got a few pictures around the park, not many, but it’ll give you an idea of what’s around me…..look, alot of empty sites for you to come on down and perch with me!!!

That’s our street….there are some RVs already and in January it is suppose to be loaded, packed full here, so you better hurry if you are coming down to hang out with me…..

This is our street, home is at the end of the street…..I’ll let Jake lead the way!

We are almost there…..This RV Park has manufactured homes in it too, at the other end of the park, and on this side of the park is mostly all RVs…..

See! There we are….The RV closest to you is our neighbor we hang out with….she is showing us all the good places to go! And the Montana is right next to it! Nope, not much grass around here……

Okay, around 1pm we left to go to a Tamale Festival in Somerton, Arizona. Do you know what a Tamale is?? Me neither!! So, let’s check it out……

This is a picture of the T-Shirt you could buy for 10 dollars…..I didn’t buy one…….

They have a live band here….they  were playing music from Santana…..

Alot of vendors are here to sell food…..

What’s the commotion down the street?? Of course I’m going to go check it out – Ha!

Ohhh, they were showing everyone what “Zumba” is! Do you know what Zumba is? I do…I’ve done Zumba before! It’s alot of fun! And you want to hear something funny…..this Zumba team is here from the Cocopah Casino! The Cocopah Casino has Zumba in it’s huge conference room every Tuesday night from 7pm to 9pm. I’m thinking about going……

Awww, now they have another dance show with kids!

Tap dancers made their debut here at the festival! They are very good too…..

Okay, enough fooling around….we are going to find out what the heck is a Tamale!! This is what it looks like….I’m glad I got a picture of this because I don’t know how to explain it to you….

Well, let’s get one…..HA! We got one and didn’t know what to do with it. We were talking to the vendor lady that we ordered it from and asked her, “Do we eat this part?” Meaning the outside part of it. She smiled that big smile and said, “Noooooo, here, let me fix it for ya.” So, she was really nice about it and she showed us how to open it up and peel out the inside….

Scrap, Scrap, Scrap……

Add some fixin’s to it and Viola! Yeah, I tasted it….well, it taste kind of bland. There really wasn’t any taste to it. I don’t know…if you want to try one, come on down, I’ll “fix” it up for ya!

NOW we are in my favorite area! This is my Margarita man…..he is here from the “3 Amigos Tequila” company serving up mini Margaritas for free to pass out…….

Okay, I got my Margarita and my free T-Shirt…..

There are alot of people here. Tequila, 72 degrees outside, and food….yeah, I see why it’s packed here……

What is that?????? Is that a……

YES!!! I wanted to go over and hug it!! A slot machine!!!! Oh Boy!!!!!

I got three free spins on this slot machine, I lost, my Mom won a T-Shirt because she hit the bonus on the slot machine with her three free spins. Then we decided to leave…….we were driving around and, wow, they were picking the lettuce field on a Saturday. They usually don’t work on a Saturday……

Okay, we stopped and there’s our neighbor (our driver too) out there waiting to get free lettuce….You think that those workers are going to stop working, get some lettuce, and bring it to her????

Yep, take a look. The guy in the blue shirt in the background asked her how many she wanted and she said, “Two” and sure enough…..

He gives them to her…..

Another happy customer with her fresh lettuce. OH, you can not tip these workers. They absolutely will not take any money from you at all. And the guy in the blue shirt goes back to work…..

Okay, that’s all we picked up from the field today. We are on a roll and decided to stop at Paradise Casino (you knew THAT was coming up didn’t ya – ha!), so on the way to Paradise we had to go down these back roads (short cut roads) and there were cats all over the place……not sure why….I guess someone is feeding them……

So we went to the Paradise Casino and of course I couldn’t bring my camera inside….that’s a no no, unless I sneak it in….and I really didn’t want to get kicked out. So we spend about an hour at the Paradise Casino and I won $35 on Keno. They have the Keno on the slot machine (not live Keno), and I had a good time…..

After we left Paradise Casino, we went out for dinner. So, let’s head over to the Texas Roadhouse Restaurant!!! Have you been to this restaurant before?? They have peanuts everywhere!

Yep, I’ll take some of those…..

Oh, our name is called and I can’t wait to open the menu……I’m hungry…..

I know! I know! I take pictures of everything! I brought my camera with me……I order the ribs and the salad. Very good food there…..

And of course!! An appetizer……we had a coupon for a free onion blossom…..

I got a to-go box. Did I finish all my food? Yeah, I did….but I still got a to-go box, bet you’re wondering why……

Yum! Peanuts! The waiter says, “I don’t see anything, I don’t know anything” Haha! So we walked out and I brought my peanuts home with me…..

Well, I know that’s alot of pictures, but I wanted to share my day with you! I hope you enjoyed my blog because I had a great day today. Tomorrow is going to be a relaxing day and I hope that’s exactly what we do – relax and hang out! But you know us, we could be doing anything, so check back tomorrow so we what we do! And don’t forget to leave me a comment. Nite Nite!