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Hello! Well, the title gives it all away but let me get into detail about my day today! This morning we drove the 3 miles west and went to Celebration, Florida where the small town was having their town yard sale. We brought Jake and walking around from house to house looking at their sale items on the sale walk in front of the homes. I’m not really a yard sale person, don’t really have experience in finding a bargain in second hand goods, but we had a good time. After combing over all the yard sale items, we walking around the center of town where there is a big pond, movie theatre, post office, bank, etc. This little town has these little vehicles residence use called “NEV” which means “Neighborhood Electric Vehicles”. To me it looks like a cool golf cart on steroids….it has four seats all facing forward (we had a golf cart and the rear bench seat faced the back), anyways, it has a windshield, a roof, and it was neat looking. Wait a minute, I’ll find you a website to these things since I can’t upload photos. http://nevportal.com/members_gallery/NEVs1.php that website should help with what I’m talking about And they have meters on the side of the street where you parallel park these NEVs and you pay the meter and plug the “car” into the meter to charge them up. They are so neat!!
After exploring the town of Celebration, we came back to the RV and turned the TV on only to be faced with the food network talking about pizza. So, Jake curled up on the couch and we went out of pizza for a late lunch. We were trying to decide on a pizza place and pulled into Pizza Hut and right next door to Pizza Hut is Red Lobster so I suggested Lobster Pizza! Yummy! It was so good. I wouldn’t mind having that once a month.
As for the rest of the afternoon, I took Jake for a long walk around the park and watched TV for the rest of the night. Movie, sitcom, cop show, and now AMA pro motorcycle racing at the Daytona race track is on TV. So, this is how I end my night. Oh, I have to say that I did sit outside for a while today and Jake loves his new hammock that I bought him at Camping World this week. He was in that hammock for at least a half hour until he spotted a cat and I had to bring Jake back inside for a little while until the cat left. He still gets all excited about a cat and wants to take off after it. I swear he will never learn. But all in all, it was a very good day. Tomorrow we aren’t going far as Nascar is on TV, but I’m sure we will go out to eat. I’ll let ya know! Have a good night and enjoy your weekend!

Hello! Today was a nice day. A simple day and nice day. A tad windy out, but not too cold. We didn’t do much today. I took Jake for a walk – we walked to Dunkin Donuts across the street and back. I also surfed the internet and watched TV. Tonight was more eventful…..we went shopping at Walmart (which is exactly 1.3 miles from our RV site) and went out for dinner at Ruby Tuesday (which is exactly .7 miles from our RV site)….and I could not get enough of the Mango Iced Tea at Ruby Tuesday! It’s non alcoholic and delicious! The waiter couldn’t bring enough of them to me as they tasted great! Maybe he shouldn’t of said “Free Refills” It’s an Iced Tea with Mango juice and Mango fruit chunks in it. I’m definitely going back to get that again, I don’t care if I just have to order a salad, I’m definitely getting that Mango Iced Tea again!
Was that the highlight of my day?? You bet!! Well, after taking Jake for a walk….that’s always number one to me. We didn’t do much else today. Maybe tomorrow will be more eventful, but I like down days like these too. I hope you enjoyed your day too. And I want to add a big thank you to those who get my blog posts via email everyday…..yes, I know who you are! If you don’t get my blog posts in your email inbox, you can easily sign up at the top right side of my blog page. If you have a hard time, email me and I’ll sign you right up! Have a great night!

Hi! Wow, Daytona Beach! The weather was beautiful and all the bikes looked great. When we first got to Daytona Beach we decided to attack the beach and pay the $5 dollars to put the pick up truck on the beach and ride on 6 miles of white sand against the salt water. That was neat! What put a real kink in my sand riding adventure was that no dogs are allowed to touch the sand. City ordinance says no dogs on beach So after exiting the beach we went looking for where all the bikes were hanging out. I had no idea where the “Bike Week” gang of Daytona Beach were hanging out. But it didn’t take long to ride up Atlantic Avenue to find Main Street. That’s where Bike Week is….on Main Street. And a small street it is and I was surprised to see that cars can drive up and down that street along with the bikes. I was expecting the street to be blocked from cars going thru like Laconia’s Bike Week is in New Hampshire. And I was surprised to see a lot less bikes than Laconia’s Bike Week too. There wasn’t many people or bikes at all. Plenty of room to walk the sidewalk, plenty of time to cross between traffic. Daytona was nice, don’t get me wrong, but nothing really to brag about. Maybe if I got drunk and waited for night fall I might have a different impression, but New Hampshire’s Bike Week in Laconia is a lot better in my opinion.
We spent a good part of the day there and Jake went too! Ohhhh, don’t get me started….I put his pleather jacket on him – Harley Davidson embroidered – and everyone at Bike Week just loved him to pieces. He got his picture taken from at least 8 or 9 people and one guy tried to take a picture with his camera while holding a cup of beer. My mom took the cup of beer from the guy so he can manage operation of his camera. It was a riot! Jake was an absolute hit there. A biker chick ran after us to give Jake a scarf to put around his neck. And yes, right now, at 8:30pm he’s out cold in his bed dreaming about all the biker chicks that gave him so much loving today! An amazing, fun day!
So, we got home (managed thru 5 o’clock Orlando I-4 highway rush hour) and we are staying home tonight watching American Idol. I’m trying to think of anything else that happened today, but that was it. Well, that’s it for now. Have a great night!

Hi! Today was a very nice day! The weather was perfect and my aunt and uncle stopped by from Groveland for a visit. I swear my aunt knows everyone, she knew a few people living right here in our RV park!
After they left we settled in and started a channel flipping marathon between Nascar and the Olympic Hockey Game between the USA and Canada battling it out for the Gold medal! An amazing game it was as USA tied the game with 24 seconds left throwing the game into overtime which did them no good, but the Silver medal isn’t so bad, is it? As for Nascar, typical Las Vegas race with no hard action. Jimmy Johnson won which was typical and predictable.
Anyways, tonight we went out to dinner at Perkin’s restaurant. I love Perkin’s restaurant! I wish there was one in New Hampshire because I would definitely help keep them in business. I had the Chicken Pot Pie and my parents had the Pot Roast. Such good food there. And at Perkin’s, they bake their own pies. So we took home two whole pies, one Strawberry pie and one Lemon Meringue pie. I did take pictures of these pies but technically in no position to post pictures at this time. While enjoying a slice of pie tonight we watched “Undercover Boss” on CBS tonight. I love that show. Check it out sometime, they are on Sunday nights (for the past 4 weeks) but for some reason they are skipping next Sunday and I don’t know why. So the next new episode will be two Sundays from now.
Other than that everything else is quiet and it was a fast day. Tomorrow we have some errands to do and I’m not sure what else, maybe hit a flea market or two. Oh, I did have my grilled cheese sandwich for lunch today – it was delicious!
We’ll that’s about it for today. I hope you had a nice weekend too! I’ll be back tomorrow!

Hello! Today I didn’t do too much. It rained the first half of the day but it was cold all day long – sweat shirt weather. I had bought four books yesterday at Barnes and Nobles and after reading 38 pages of one of them, two books went back today. Two of the four books I bought weren’t what I expected them to be. I was disappointed, but I cut my losses and got my money back. The other two were fiction, so I’ll keep those and see how those are over the next few days. I plan on keeping those. This is the second time in my life I’ve returned a book to the bookstore.
After the bookstore we stopped at a tourist shop and I picked up some postcards and looked around for other souvenirs that might catch my eye. I ended up just buying three postcards. And let me tell you, postcards aren’t cheap in Kissimmee! When I was in Las Vegas, I could easily get postcards 12 postcards for a dollars and here in Kissimmee I can’t find a postcard under 40 cents each! After shopping and buying only my postcards I stopped at Dunkin Donuts and got my weekly hot tea……okay, okay, daily hot tea. Boy, tough audience today!
Anyways, the remainder of the day I took Jake for a walk when the rain let up and watched TV for the rest of the night. I also watched the status of Hawaii throughout the day and caught the last 80 laps of the NNS race that was in Las Vegas today. I will be watching Nascar tomorrow and I’m already predicting a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch! Yummy! Everything is great here, just waiting for better weather so I can sit outside and read my new books! Have a great night and I’ll be back tomorrow, oh, and thanks for checking on me!

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!

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!

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.