Today's Draft

FRIDAY - 03/08/2011 - Got up and met Rick and family for breakfast at Rae's, a local's restaurant just around the corner from us, before they headed back to Colorado from their short four-day visit to Belen's family here in Vegas. We went back home and I worked on postig pictures from yesterday's Mt Charleston hike. Later in the day went to GVR and the "M" where Connie had $15 in free slot play. We stayed at the "M" and had dinner before heading to the airport to pick up Jim Herring. By the time we drove him to his house on the other side of Vegas and got back home it was after 11:00, way past out bedtime.

THURSDAY - 03/07/2011 - Got up at 5:30 am for one of my hikes with the Senior Center's rock hounds. Today's hike was to the Mt. Charleston area, which as predicted, ended up being very windy and cold. Several of the trails still had so much snow on them that they were closed. As always, I still was able to get a few nice pictures, even though I missed some sittings of two beautiful woodpeckers and a huge western blue jay. Came home and made a late afternoon lunch that we had over some prerecorded TV shows. Connie then watched over my shoulder as I reviewed and edited the pictures from this morning's hike. We then had ice cream sundies for dinner, watched a couple of TV show and went to bed.

WEDNESDAY - 03/07/2011 - Connie's brother and family arrived late on Monday after a long 13 hour drive from Bayfield, Colorado. They spent all day Tuesday visiting with Belen's family and touring some of the new sites on the Strip. We went over to the "M" and had lunch at the Vig Deli and played for a couple of hours. Today, Rick, Belen and Caden came over around 9:00 am and I made us all a nice 'brunch' consisting of egg, pepper, onion and cheese omelets, hashbrowns, bacon and English muffins. After breakfast we took Caden out to play in the yard area around the pool. When we went back inside, Caden ended up taking a nap and we sat out on the deck conversing for several hours. We then headed over to the Coronado Cafe at the South Point casino, where they were staying, and treated them to a wonderful Chinese dinner. It was just one of those nice days with family. After we parted company, we drove by the "M" and played for a couple of hours before heading back home. I won, Connie lost. Caught up on a few of our TV shows before retiring for the evening.