Casino Hopping

Back in February the Station casinos were giving away free Valentine candy!

Yesterday it was cute fuzzy bunnies!  Sure you need to get in the car.. drive to a couple of casinos to collect your dust collectors, but it's fun! And it's free!

This crowd started out with only two lonely bunnies.

Do I need a stuffed Easter Bunny? Am I the kind of gal that collects such things? No, not at all!
I just like to play 'Stuff on my cat.'  Now that is entertainment!



Seriously?




This is so humiliating.

 If the teenagers went and got theirs, she would have had four more on top of her.

Unfortunately Dad wasn't feeling that great yesterday.... or maybe he was just saying that, so he could stay home and watch a 'Storage Wars' marathon.

It is addictive.

Here is hoping he has a better day today...... I hate seeing him down.



                                                        

Sharing is fun... but not today.

A afternoon spent running around, and Dad playing Paul Bunyon with a ugly tree.

Bella Played the part of Babe.. size proportionate.

First Mom had a mini attack with her hernia pain.. (She goes into for surgery in two weeks)

She is getting the Easter Peeps special!

She started feeling better, so the teenagers came over for pasta. Then Dad started feeling nauseous after eating and they went home.


I know they like to share, but there is a limit ya know!






Take that cancer and hernia!



You try living without it

The internet has been down all day. How did we ever live without it?
Mom called the folks at Clear, a 100 minutes later she was connected to a operator. Some dude hanging out in India.


Try this .. no?  How about that?.. No? Take your computer into the bathroom and flush 3 times.... anything?

Mom handed me the phone when the guy started saying words like ethernet cable and router.  I hung up on him when he tried to get me to change all the settings on the computer.. after he asked me to log onto speednet.com...   "Hey guy, I cant sign on to the Internet! wtf???"

Then after a quick call to the Clear store, (where they don't deal with technical troubles,) they informed us that they were having problems from L.A. to Vegas.. Perhaps someone should have told those helpful folks in New Delhi.


Now we are back online, June doesn't need to place paper ads anymore.


Won't Dad get mad?



Quiet times

Everything is good, I missed a couple of days on the Blog, but that is all Junes fault for hooking up cable.


Must watch everything.. can't stop looking at the train wreck known as reality TV!

Mom meets with her surgeon today.. Make sure that she can pay. she is good to go for the hernia surgery.


I knew they made fun of us!

Something ugly and mean bit her yesterday.. Stupid bugs! Stupid allergies.. Thought she might need a arm amputated while she was already on the table.. Looks better today! She gets to keep the limb.

Last night I was down on Fremont Street and encountered something even scarier!  The worst Elvis impersonator ever.. I know the picture is blurry, but if you look you can see the freak is wearing a adult diaper.. Got to love Vegas!

Depends Elvis!



Meat and Cheese

For seventeen years (since his heart attack) Dad has been strict with his diet. Very little fat, no red meat and tiny amounts of blue cheese.  He loves cheese.. sometimes it sits in a trunk and he still thinks he can consume it.


Yum... trunk cheese!

So it has been strange to see him use real butter.. dress his food with Parmesan. Usually when Mom and I have a steak, he will have fish.. works out, cause he likes fish and Mom, not so much.
Yesterday he decided he was having streak with us.


Hey! I think you are supposed to cook it first.

 I not sure his body knew what to do with all that red meat.. He had a rough night.. got sick, cold and had some pains.. I like to think it was his meal. Probably not.

Tonight we had chicken.

Happy Anniversary..

52 year the Teenagers have been married! That is a long time.. and I think they still kinda like each other.

Mom decided that for a anniversary present she would get them cable. Time to slow down a little and watch some TV.

Looking for the 24 hour 'Wheel" station


 Mikes E-mail today told of many, many stairs in Spain. :(

Mom's knees and Dads declining energy aren't that friendly with stairs..
The Metro system is, as Mike says, 40 flights of stairs down... Probably more like 25.

Buses are trains are crowded and the elevators they do have are, tiny.

Again Happy Anniversary to my favorite set of parents!

Back to Hoover dam

The teenagers have company.. so they went out to see the bridge by Hoover Dam today.


Been there, done that..

 Almost back to Vegas and realized there was a forgotten purse back in Boulder City..


We need a app for that!

 

And that!

 Mike sent a e-mail, they have sun burned heads.. been stuck on a tram ride.. waiting... waiting.... waiting... Can only imagine how they amused themselves..

I bet there was trouble brewing in there.

They are having a gay old time.. Spain may never be the same!

The teenagers are okay with their choice not to go.. too many little things were worrisome.  The pain of the other night was the sign they needed to cancel.
Their biggest disappointment is not spending the time with the boys. Anyone who has spent time with Topher and Mike, knows what I am talking about!

I think this is in Italy... I could be wrong.



I know this is in Florence, because I am there!

 The Boys are having fun, they say the apartment they are renting is huge... bigger than Topher and Josh's house! When Mom told them that she insisted on paying her part of the lodging.. The boys said not to worry because the place is big enough, that they rented part of it out to a company of circus midgets.




Nobody has accused them of being politically correct!

I think Toph is obsessed with little people.. last year when he rented a car, the trunk was rather large.. he mused at how many midget could he fit in there... I suggested we see how many Udells we could squeeze in instead!

The correct answer is seven,

Bags packed. Check.
Euros in hand. Check
Bills all paid. Check
Rooms reserved. Check
One last trip to the Doctors office to get MRI results...
Shit.. shit... shit .. shit... damn!
Given Dads diagnosis, you are wondering what now?


Well guess what kids? Life likes it's cruel little jokes.
Dad is fine to travel... (Given his gas attacks fellow travellers may disagree.)
Mom on the other hand was the recipient of the MRI, which revealed several hernias... which she now admits, cause more than discomfort... but ugly, give me a pill now, kind of pain.


That's better... hey why is the room moving???

So the trip has been canceled.
Disappointed? Yes. But they are wise... the doctor even said you need the surgery as soon as you get back.... If not before, then handed her a piece of paper with the test result on it, so she could give it to a surgeon in Spain if necessary. Not a real encouraging sign!



No hablas English.. lo que es una hernia???

Monitoring teenagers on the web

This morning I tried to help the teenagers look stuff up for their trip.
Contrary to popular belief, the computer doesn't make things easier for everyone.


Do they even sale white-out anymore?

  I'm not saying that they struggle with this 21st century technology... just don't expect any Facebook updates from Spain.



Status Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

So given all this information right at their finger tips.... they ended up at the library.. getting some last minute ideas from those things that old people call books! 

(Dad reads that thing every morning that leaves your fingers a little inked up.. I think its referred to as a newspaper.)

The magic of the Internet allows me to post jokes about old folks.... And the old folks in this house don't know how are password protected to do anything about it.

Las Vegas, the place where there is no last call..
 The casinos don't have locks on their doors, always open..
 24 hour grocery, Walmarts and fast food.


And of course this..

So it was strange that today every place we wanted to go, was closed.. 
The international warehouse food market.

Then the Costco business center, super size it store.

Even the Dead Poets Used Bookstore... (Public libraries are even open on Sunday)

Sheesh it was like being back in Utah, where everything shuts down on a Sunday..


Mom reminded me about 100 times (Or 2) that Today is Matt's Birthday and not to forget him on the blog..
So Happy Birthday Matt!

He was 4 days away from being a Irish Twin*
He has the Grandma Ruby's Irish stubbornness.
I think he actually cried with a brogue. Maybe he should be out there looking for a pot of gold!

Mom just claimed that he is her favorite child..
So I just want to point out, that when I told her that Matt didn't like his picture on the internet.. she said "Too bad."

* http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Irish+twins

tattoo update

Maybe it was the 90 plus temperature or the desert dry air.. The hours of sweating while pulling weeds and buying happy bougainvilleas. But Dads new tattoo isn't  doing so well. Perhaps it looks like this, because.......

It was all a April fools joke! Albeit an elaborate, let's go to the tattoo parlour and see if they guy there has a sense of humor practical joke...

(The tattoo kid was great, by the way.. )



Now the joke is over and it back to getting ready for the real fun. Spain!  Mike and Jake leave tomorrow, Topher and Josh on Tuesday and The Teenagers on Wednesday.


Fly safe Mike and Jake!