Apr 5th to 8th - Yuma to Las Vegas

Apr 5th – Mon – Yuma
I caught up the blog this morning before making a late breakfast. Charlie & Julie picked us up at 11:30 and we headed to the casino to take advantage of $10 free play each. C&J have been getting the $10 free play at 2 different casinos each week for a couple of months. They play the free amount, cash out what they have at that time and put the money aside. We have a tendency to play the casino’s money and a bit of our own. But I did OK today – I put in $5 of my own (need at least $1 to activate the free play) and cashed out $60.
Then we went to Wellton to play golf at Coyote Wash. It was quite windy but warm. We maintained a good pace for the first 8 holes and then play bogged down. We played through the SLOW group on the 10th hole but had to wait a bit on the last 4 holes.
I had put a pork roast in the crock pot and invited C&J over for dinner. Julie added a salad to the roast & yams for a yummy, easy dinner. Charlie is a sports fan so we all watched the last half of the NCAA championship basketball game.

Apr 6th – Tues – Yuma
Lazy day. We did some prep for moving tomorrow. We visited Charlie & Julie and I helped Julie uninstall & reinstall Picasa. She had been using face recognition in Picasa and, like me, found that it interfered with Picasa’s backup capability. I had looked at forums on Picasa’s website and read a lot about this known problem so decided to get rid of that function by turning off face recognition on our new computer.
We went to visit friends Terry & Judy (met them in Newfoundland) who are staying in Yuma until Sat. We had a drink with them and were joined by their friends Ray & Louise. Then we walked to a nearby restaurant for dinner with T&J. We were going to play cards after dinner but had too much catching up to do.

Apr 7th – Wed – to Las Vegas
We said farewell to Charlie & Julie and left before 9. Wind most of the way played havoc with our fuel mileage. We made a stop for diesel & lunch and arrived in Las Vegas about 3. Wanda did not do a very good job of getting us to Main St. Station RV park. It appears as if there have been major freeway changes since our last map update. Once we got onto surface streets we did OK.
We were surprised (I don’t know why!) to find most of the pull through sites occupied. We had to walk to the hotel to get a spot and were told that some event accounted for the fullness of the RV park. We found a suitable back-in site and set up. We even have some shade and are not right beside the streets surrounding the park.
We are just a few blocks from “Old Downtown” – Fremont St. – so we enjoyed a drink and then went exploring. We had a good time adding casino player cards to our collection, having dinner, watching part of a couple of light shows on Fremont St and, of course, checking out the slot machines. Got back at 12:45 – very late night for us!

Apr 8th – Thurs – Las Vegas
We slept in and then had coffee before heading out again. We had a certificate for 2-for-1 entrees at a restaurant and planned to use it for breakfast/lunch. Before eating, we checked out some more casinos.
After lunch we continued our walk & gambling. Our allowance finally ran out about 5 so we came back for a drink & dinner. After dinner, Terry decided to go back and play some 21. I was burned out & happy to stay home, catch up expenses on the computer and read. Terry did recover a bit of our losses at 21.
The weather is lovely – sunny and warm. It was a bit cool walking back late last night in short sleeves but the casinos are so warm that I was glad I did not take along a light jacket.