Archive for the ‘Las Vegas’ Category

Hi! Nooo, that’s not a typo or an old blog posting title up above. We are back in Yuma, Arizona again! We left Las Vegas around 8am and with a leisurely drive and a brunch stop at Denny’s in Laughlin, we made it to Yuma by 5pm. It was a nice easy trip down here and what made my day was that we made it “here” before 6pm so I can go to Bingo!! Yes, we are dry camping in the parking lot of the Paradise Casino tonight, then tomorrow off to Tombstone, Arizona!
I’m not a big fan of dry camping, but I make exceptions if we are in a casino parking lot. In this case, it’s okay!
With a quick phone call to my Bingo partner that stays in Yuma, she met us at Paradise Casino for some Bingo action that started at 6pm! I got so close to a $100 Bingo jackpot tonight….just one number off and they showed my number in the TV monitor and before it was called, and before I yelled “Bingo!”, someone three tables behind me beat me to it, calling out “Bingo” for the number just before mine! Arghh! Sooo close and very painful!
Anyways, the night wasn’t a total loss, we visited with our good friend here in Yuma at the casino and I won $50 bucks on the Wheel of Fortune slot machine! The whole evening was a lot of fun!
Hmmm, trying to think what else is new, but that pretty much sums up today. We did change all the clocks so now we are an hour closer to you all on the east coast. (Don’t bother looking it up, I’ll tell ya. We have a 2 hour time difference now instead of 3. So whatever time you are looking at right this minute, it’ll take us two more hours to get there.)
Tomorrow we will explore Tombstone and I will bring my camera with me to get some pictures. And then we will take our time heading towards Mission, Texas where we will stay for a little while.
I know for a fact that wonderful, reliable Nextel has no cell phone service all the way down the west border of Texas against the Mexico line, and I know this because I remember last winter’s panic attack I had from being cut off from online social civilization on this same trip. So this year I’m ready, I’ll hold my breath and my survival instincts will hopefully kick in as I live with my Blackberry being dead for a few long, long hours (maybe even a, a, a, *gasp*, DAY!!)
Okay, the generator is about to be shut off now and that will be the end of power to this RV. Have a great, great night. Have faith, check on me, as I will be back tomorrow!

Hi! Yep, you know I have to touch on football here. Amazing game today. I was for the Saints because I’m not a Manning fan (doesn’t matter which one).  And, I don’t know why, but I didn’t place a bet on this game. I never got around to it. I’m sitting in the middle of the gambling capital and I don’t make a bet on the Super Bowl. Ha! I wanted to, but the Super Bowl snuck up on me, and before I knew it, I was watching it. Trust me, I kick myself now, but if I had placed a bet on the Saints, they probably would of lost! That’s just my luck! So, I’m glad they won and I’m looking forward to a horse race coming up on April 3rd, if all parties show up. I’ll tell ya what I’m talking about if you click HERE. I’ll be keep an eye on this one.

Anyways, enough about sports! I’ve got some news for you! You will not be seeing any pictures in my blog postings for a few days because I’ll be posting from my Blackberry starting tomorrow! Yes, that’s right. We are leaving Las Vegas tomorrow. I guess we are all “Vegas-ed” out (I never knew that was possible) and there are other adventures and more casinos down the road to see. We are leaving tomorrow morning and heading back to Yuma, Arizona for the night (I’m hoping to go to Paradise Casino for Monday night Bingo!). I hope my Bingo partner in Yuma is reading this…..I’m on my way!!!

Tonight we went to Circus Circus  Casino and I lost $40 dollars, and then we hopped across the street to the Riviera Casino and I won $167 dollars. So, it was a good day today! I finished my night with this (took it with my Blackberry)…….

OH, I just saw now on the news that the new Hoover Dam bridge is set to open in November! Wow, neat. 1,900 feet across the Colorado River. So, if you are looking forward to seeing this bridge in action, then November will be your month!

So, bare with me for the next few days. I will blog from my Blackberry telling all the news, but no pictures. And, I like to yap, so don’t forget to check on me. Have a great night. I’ll be back tomorrow! OH, and don’t forget to leave me a comment, I can approve comments right on the spot from my Blackberry!

Today we stayed home most of the day. I slept in late today….so nice to sleep in late (everyday!) Anyways, I’ve recently found a website that you can watch up to date movies that are even currently playing in the theater. Some of my friends have told me about this in the past, watching currently movies online. I can see by doing a Google search there are a lot of website that offer this. So I tried it out and watch the full length movie “Leap Year”. Pretty good movie, but soooo predictable….I’ll have to rate the movie C-, cheesy and blah ending. So I’m not sure what movie I’ll watch next – I’m thinking….”Up In The Air” or “The Blind Side”.

So around 6pm tonight we went out on the town and ventured to Planet Hollywood, Paris Casino, Bally’s Casino, and Riviera Casino. I didn’t win any money tonight, and I have never seen so many people in Vegas than this weekend (OH, second to last year’s New Year’s Eve party I witnessed). Vegas is packed solid in the casinos now and every TV is on the sports channel putting people in the mood for Super Bowl Sunday! I got just a few pictures for ya…..

It rained all day today but stopped tonight. It’s very warm out. I had on a t-shirt and light jacket. Very nice temperature for walking around outside, just avoid the puddles! Other than that, I watched the Daytona Budweiser Shootout today and I was so happy to see Kasey Kahne finish in second place! And I’m ready for football tomorrow! Check in with me tomorrow! Have a good night and enjoy your weekend!

Hi! Don’t have too much to say, but I’ve got a ton of pictures. Hope you like pictures because I’ve been going crazy with the camera lately! And I’ve been getting a little bit bolder with taking pictures inside the casinos. I haven’t been “spoken to” yet! Ha! Okay, so last night we went to the Las Vegas Hilton Casino. This casino is not on the Las Vegas Boulevard, but is set back one block east of the Boulevard. You can walk there during the day, I’d be “iffy” walking to that casino at night. So we took the Dodge there…..

The Las Vegas Hilton Casino is “Star Wars” themed! It has always been “Star Wars” themed. I stayed here on my very first visit to Las Vegas back in…..gosh, back in…..well, let’s see here, I was 21 years old when I first visited Vegas, so that was…..HEY, that would give my age away! Forgot it! LOL! You almost got me there….LOL!

You enter thru this door to go to the other side of the casino area……

Neat slot machines……

So those pictures were inside the Las Vegas Casino. Very nice.

Today we walked from Circus Circus Casino to Sahara Casino and then to the Stratosphere Casino…..it was a long walk but in nice weather, so nice to enjoy the outdoors…..

It seems like Las Vegas is always under construction…..

There’s the Stratosphere Casino…..

There’s the Sahara Casino…….

There’s both casinos…….as you can see we have quite a walk……

Okay, we are back to the RV park. If you want to call this an RV park. No one is really here and this RV park is never over half full. As you can see there is a lot of open spots here.

On this side of the park. Picture above was to my right, picture below is to my left. This is the section of the RV park for monthly tenants. The empty section to my right is for daily tenants. Of course a big price difference. Can you see our RV??

There, I got a little closer to our RV. We kind of spread out a little bit!

Well, other than that, I met some online friends at the Beer and Blog meet up we had tonight. It was nice to talk to others in the area that are always online and talking tech stuff. These group of people get together once a week to talk about blogging, tech gadgets, and beer! They are pretty cool and I did have a great time. They eagerly accepted me into their group once I told them I’m an online social networking addict too! Ha!

Well, I hope you had a great week. It’s Friday!!!! And Superbowl weekend! It should be very busy here in Vegas for the Superbowl and I’ll bring my camera with me to catch some good shots for ya! Have a good night. I’ll be back tomorrow!

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! Yesterday before the movies we had plenty of time to explore the local area on South Las Vegas Boulevard before the movie started so we visited M&M World! This place is too cool! It’s 4 floors and M&M stuff everywhere. If you love M&Ms, you will be in heaven here….

This is my kind of slot machine!

I’m trying to remember, but I think this is a bank. When you put money in, pull the arm, and out comes M&Ms! Isn’t that a cool way to save money. Don’t worry about saving too much, all the money that you save you’ll have to re-invest into more M&Ms to motivate you to save more money. Hmmmm, a vicious circle…..hmmm, maybe it’s not a bank….not sure, anyways, moving on…..

My kind of t-shirt…..

I’m looking for Kyle……

Kyle has to be around here somewhere…..

Okay, those previous pictures were yesterday. Today we mosey on up to Fremont Street and looked around, tried my luck, and lost $40 bucks……

OH, see that canvas on top of the street. That’s what they play those hourly nightly shows on that I was yapping about before…..

So, that’s what we did today! It’s a tad cold out tonight, so I don’t think we are going too far tonight. I’ve been checking out some information on magic shows around the area. There aren’t too bad in cost. Unless you want to see David Copperfield, you can get a decent magic show seat for 30 bucks. We just might hit a few and I’ll let you know how they are. Have a great week!

Hi! I’m doing this blog posting from my Blackberry because I’m still out running around and won’t be home til later. I’m now standing outside on the Las Vegas Boulevard waiting for the bus to take me to the winning casino. Tonight we are going to Bally’s Casino and Paris Casino and a few in between.
We also went to the movies today to see “Edge of Darkness” starring Mel Gibson (oh la la!) Anyways, a pretty good movie. You have to have a solid stomach that can handle a lot of blood. Good story. I rate it a C+. The “C” is for the movie and the “+” is for Mel! No, I haven’t been drinking at all today…..ha!
Other than that, everything is quiet. I hope when I do my blog post tomorrow I can tell you I won my million dollars.
Jake is doing great too. He seemed to really warm up to his canned food thankfully (I bought a case of it). And we give him plenty of exercise everyday chasing the pigeons around the parking lot (supervised, of course). He loves that. He sneaks up on them and then breaks into a run and jumps when they fly away. I don’t care how simple it is, if he’s happy, I’m happy!
Well, I’m on the bus now going south on the LV Boulevard. Have a great night. I’ll be back tomorrow with pictures!

Hi! I’m so excited about this blog posting and I’ll explain the title in a minute, but I wanted to tell you what we did last night first. Wow, was it busy on the Las Vegas Boulevard last night. We took the bus down to Treasure Island Casino (not far, two casinos south of us, but was still far enough to take the bus)…….

Inside Treasure Island Casino, they have always been motorcycle/chrome themed! Take a peek……

So if you want to win a bike, go to Treasure Island. Next door to Treasure Island is the Mirage Casino, home to the infamous erupting of the volcano right outside. Very neat. I didn’t see the volcano go while we were there…..I think it’s every hour or every half hour or so.

They are beautiful waterfalls outside the Mirage Casino too!

Okay, next up, the Wynn Casino. Steve Wynn built two towers, the first tower called Wynn opened in April 2005 and his Encore tower opened last winter (we went to the opening of Encore last winter). I’ve never seen this huge Tiger before……

Okay, this is where I’m going to get a little hyper on ya! I have a little dog. He’s a pure breed Maltese, he turned 8 years old on Jan 10th (he’s a Capricorn) and he weighs 8 pounds. I’ve had him since he was 12 weeks old. He’s my little buddy, so this is what he looks like……this is not a picture of last month or last week, I came home last night and took this picture before uploading the pictures on the laptop last night…….

Ha! You can tell I’m holding a treat above the camera by the look in his eyes!

Anyways, the reason why I’m showing you a picture of Jake is because when I was at the Wynn Casino (and I’ve never ever seen this slot machine in any other casino at all), this is what I stumbled upon………

I don’t care if they kicked me out of that casino, I was determined to get a picture of this slot machine. Isn’t that too cool!! Jake’s got his own slot machine. Well, as much money as I put into all the slot machines, he should have his own slot machine! Ha! You should of saw me when I found it, I was like a little kid all excited! No, the slot machine didn’t pay out a dime to me, but that’s okay, because I’ll be going back to that slot machine to dump some more money in it so see if I can hit the Jackpot. Oh, wait, I already hit the Jackpot……I’ve got my own Maltese Fortune right here sleeping right next to meeeeee!

Have a great day and I’m not sure what we are doing tonight, but since the Miss America pageant is over (congrats to Miss Virginia), everyone should be leave Las Vegas today.

Hi! What a great night we had on Fremont Street in Las Vegas. It was hopping and I didn’t win anything news breaking, but at the end of the night I profited $120, hey, I can’t complain, especially on a weekend. But, I got some cool pictures for you on Fremont Street! Take a peek…..

Just 5 nickels can win you this!! I almost won, but the reels were a little off and just weren’t lining up the symbols for me to win the Corvette. Darn! But, just let me believe I almost won!!!

The Fremont Street casinos shut down all their neon lights for an hourly show up on the Fremont Street electrical canvas above, called the “Fremont Street Experience”, so cool. A different theme show every hour. Here’s some pictures of it, this is on an electrical canvas right above your head!

This one is alien themed – that’s my favorite show! So very cool…..it’s like the aliens are looking down on us…..so, so cool!!!

Oh, want to see how I ended my night!! Yummy!!! I don’t drink much. A margarita a month, but I had to have my one Las Vegas mixed drink! This drink (keep the plastic container, I use it for my loose change now), anyways, this drink cost me $13 dollars and it was considered a “small”, I think the medium was $17 and the large was $21. This drink is a little on the weak side, they offered everyone that buys a drink more vodka for an additional $2 dollars! I declined, the $13 dollars was enough for me to spend on a drink that actually, I have to say, tasted pretty darn good as it is. And no, don’t tell me the calories, I don’t want to know – LOL!

Well, that’s our night! Oh, I bought some Keno tickets and won $21 dollars on Keno! And now it’s Saturday and let’s see how wild we can get tonight! Hey, it’s the thought that counts! I’ll stay with my Pepsi and Grenadine tonight. Yummy! Love Cherry Coke. Have a great weekend!

Hi! Wow, what a great night we had last night. We explored a few casinos on the Las Vegas Boulevard. We went to Paris Casino and Planet Hollywood Casino and a few other little ones in between. I must of been feeling lucky because I put a $5 dollar bill in a $5 dollar slot machine (yep, just one shot) and it came out Triple Symbol, Bar, Bar on the three reel display and printed out a ticket for an even $300 dollars! Just like that. Couldn’t believe it! I don’t know what I was thinking! Ohhhh, yes, I knew exactly what I was thinking and I’ll share my secret with you……In my opinion and experience at Las Vegas…..Las Vegas does not pay out much on weekends at all. I’ve never, ever won more than $100 dollars on the weekend here, not just this trip, but all of my trips here. BUT, Las Vegas pays out during the week, and boy, does it pay out…..take a look at what my Dad did last night at the Planet Hollywood Casino!

Yep, that says there is $66 dollars in the slot machine that was left when he hit $1015 dollars!!!

Yep, it’s the lower amount progressive jackpot! I sure would of like to see that purple symbol show up on the last reel for the bigger progressive jackpot, but hey, he was sure happy! I think he was a little unsure if he had won anything, until I glanced at it and say, “Yep, it looks like you are a winner!” You know, now that I think about it, that slot machine didn’t even make a sound, no ringing, no binging, no nothing. I just lite up and said, “Jackpot” on the screen above, but not one sound. The supervisor had to come by and verify the winning amount thru the slot machine and handed the cash to Dad. He gave Mom and I a little bit of it, woo-hoo, and we walked around the casino a little bit more looking for more slot machines that might be willing to pay out. My dad saw a $5 dollar slot machine that seemed to be calling his name and he put some money in it and hit the button to spin the wheel and a yellow 7 showed up on each of the three reels!!! A payout of $500 dollars.

So, your lesson for today is that Las Vegas may look fascinating and hopping on the weekends, but save your gambling dollar for Monday!

Here’s some pictures of the Las Vegas Boulevard and of Paris Casino and Bellagio Casino……

They aren’t the best pictures, I think my camera is acting up again. This camera is one year old, but it has taken alot of pictures in one year. Actually I can check how many total pictures I’ve take with this camera….hang on….I’ve taken a total of 9573 pictures in one year. I’m one of those people who take two or three pictures of the same object and then download them sifting thru which picture is better than the others.

So between my Blackberry and my camera, I’m really not sure which one will outlast the other. Ha!

I would like to take pictures around the inside of the casinos, but I don’t want to get kicked out…….The pictures I do take inside of the casinos, I try to sneak it in quickly…..I’ll see what I can do….

Well, that’s it for today. I’ll bring my camera with me tonight in case we win a million! Have a good night. I’ll be back tomorrow.