Apr 3rd to 5th - Mesa to Las Vegas

Apr 3rd – Tues
We did some more packing up and chatted with Leonard & Mary and Ron & Rea before doing some grocery shopping. We had lunch in the courtyard with Jim & Deb and Dennis & Gloria. We paid our electric bill on the way back to our site and finished up packing up & cleaning. Deb & I took some old lettuce to feed the tortoises then joined the guys at the courtyard to listen to music.
We invited Jim & Deb and Larry & Julie over for Frito pie for dinner. Ernie & Dianne went home from the courtyard, ate dinner and came to see us before we got around to eating. We had finished dinner when Mike & Susie joined us so we had lots of goodbye hugs when everyone left!

Apr 4th – Wed
More goodbye hugs and we headed for Las Vegas at 8:30. There was one freeway slowdown due to an accident but otherwise the drive was uneventful. We stopped for fuel & breakfast/lunch near Kingman which took more than we expected and we parked beside Ron & Terri at Main St. Station RV park at 2:45. We set up, walked to Main St. Station casino to register and Ron & Terri joined us there.
We all spent the rest of the evening & quite a bit of the night at Freemont Street. We tried very hard to “corrupt” Ron & Terri and got them started on their own collection of players’ cards. Terri won money on a couple of slot machines and tucked it away - for future gambling? We had a nice dinner, watched shows on the overhead roof/screen and listened to a loud Western band. I’m not sure what time Ron & Terri left us but we got home about midnight.

Apr 5th – Thurs
Terry & I went for breakfast while Ron & Terri went grocery shopping. Ron wanted to check out the pawn shop that you see on TV on Pawn Stars. Even thought it is only just over a mile from where we are staying we took the truck. We were glad that we did when we saw the line of people to get in, decided we weren’t going to wait and carried on down the Strip.
We parked at Mandalay Bay where Terry showed Ron & Terri a slot machine that he likes (Alice) and won $110. We took the tram to the Luxor and then walked to New York New York. Ron & Terri went off to have lunch while Terry & I gambled and I finally won some money.
We continued wandering & gambling and finally took the tram back to Mandalay Bay to get our truck.
Traffic was slow going back on the Strip and there was still a line at the pawn shop. I invited Ron & Terri for dinner so we relaxed a bit, had dinner, put on long pants & jackets (it cooled down and was windy) and went back to Freemont Street. We watched a couple of overhead light & sound shows, gambled away the rest of our winnings and got back shortly after 11.