Vacation - Part 1

My flower bed before I left for Vegas.

Vegas

First I leave home and drive to the airport with my Mom, George and Bubs as company. As I’m walking up to the airport I notice they aren’t going anywhere, like to my house. Or even leaving the airport. Poor George has his long legs up to his ears from my seat setting. So I help him with that, walk on and notice….they aren’t going anywhere. God love them. I had to go back and help them again. This time they got on their way.

Walk in, get my ticket, strip almost naked for security and go on. I’m surprised, this time I got through with no bag check. Yeah for me. The first lag to Chicago was nothing other than I got to travel with some gang members there. That was interesting. You know, I realize there were people who said this about me when I was a teen; boy girls are thin now a days!!

Second jag I am sitting next to his really huge fellow and this very schizo woman. She must have been nervous about something. I just wanted to sleep. I close my eyes….and they start selling things. This for $5, that for $5. The lady next to me took everything. The fellow next to me kept making trips to the bathroom. Maybe I’ll just doze, sit here with my eyes closed. They show a movie. What’s it called? Chronicles of Narnia. I didn’t mean to watch it. I didn’t mean to try to read the lips of the actors, or lean in closer to the person next to me to hear through their headset. Now I have to see it.

I’m staring at this screen, where have I seen that white witch from? Where, where, where? I was about to go in mental circles when it hit me, Constantine! That’s where I’ve seen her. She was the cussing angel in it. AHA!

Get to Vegas. Now here is a prime example of what all David has taught me. I have absolutely no fear getting a taxi and telling them where to take me. Before I would have been worried about kidnapping, theft, what have ya. Nothing but a thang. Got to where all the guys are. Yeah! I haven’t seen some of these fellows since Convention in August. Some of my favorite people where there! Actually, I thing about all of them were my favorite people. Yeah for me again! What a way to end a trip!

I tell you what. I could sit around for days and just listen to these guys go on and on. The way they rib each other and pull pranks. It was great. I laughed and laughed. Ahhhh………this is the life! Especially Dave and Robert. Those two act like brothers. You must read the rest of the blog and hear about them going on during our drive in the desert.

So we all get ready to eat. I’m starved cause I didn’t eat breakfast and there wasn’t any part of this trip that they fed me on. Plus, there’s three hours difference between there and here. I’m hungry to say the least.

“Oh Hoss!” This is Roberts favorite phrase. One everyone likes to rib him about. “Hoss, there’s this restaurant at the Rio that has all you can eat lobster and sea food.” Okay, we all hail about three taxis, and head that way. Oh my, my, my.

Tom, (he’s a card too. Gotta read about New Mexico) Lumpy and Dave are in one taxi. How could this have happened? Oh my. I about laughed my head off. The taxi driver was having fits as well. I thought he was gonna pee himself.

We get there and wait in line F O R E V E R. Not that I minded. There was a ceiling show and dancers and such. No kidding. There was this horse that comes out of the ceiling and boats and such with dancers. Well, I don’t have to worry about anything. Nothing. My kids are safe with my Mom and the ever patient George. I’m on vacation. Leave all worries in IN and have fun. So I did. It was great. Oh and the crab legs were excellent. The lobster was bad, crab excellent. And I can almost eat my weight in crab legs. (good thing it’s a fat free food eh?)

After dinner we go back to our hotel, the Luxor. Now that you will have to look up. It’s the big pyramid. None of my pictures came out cause it was too dark. We go change clothes, wait in line with Lumpy for a club named Ra. We are watching at the front of the line and people are just walking in. Hmmm….must pay closer attention. I sit down on this statue and pay attention. Hmmmm…this is something Dave is good at. Hey Honey……I tell him what is going on. We tip the bouncer and in we go. Lumpy bout lost it. I won’t go into detail why but he’s young, he’s single and been out in Montana for way too long without company. ‘Nough said.

Short while of that and we left. Bored. Time to go do what everyone comes to Vegas to do. Let’s play Black Jack! I LOVE Black Jack!!! We sit at a table. I think we walked away down $30. Not so bad. Can’t complain. I even made one single small bet on the roulette wheel, just to say I could. I lost. I watched these two rednecks (I can say that cause I are one) win $400, yell and yell how they were getting a steak dinner at the Ponderosa, in three rounds, it was all GONE. Nah, ya think?