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I'm Back From Las Vegas With A Few Bucks


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Hello gang, I'm back home for a day or three of needed rest, man this trip tired me plum out physically trying to ride those buses that picks you up from the Airport to take you to your hotel!!! I tell you now the steps to get in are to tall if you got one side of your body paralyzed like I do!!! My good knee gave out and I couldn't support my other leg to help me climb up to get in the bus...

 

So on the return trip me did the taxi cab thing from the hotel to the airport and again from the airport when we landed back to the hotel where we left the car instead of at the airport parking lot!!! The hotel was cheaper since we stayed there Saturday night because we had an early flight to Vegas and didn't want to leave home that early the next morning... That worked out great for us but trying to take the shuttle buses are no good for me with one good leg...

 

I got to visit the VA for them to look at my knees real soon.. I got a bone sticking up from my knee in my good leg and it hurts like hell.. I can see it and feel it and it hurts to walk with my cane. We rented a scooter upon arrival at the hotel Circus-Circus on the strip across from the other big hotels and casinos... Low and behold there was a Ross department store just down the street within walking distance for my wife and me on the scooter...

 

Now the good news... I won on the quarter machine where there were three in one row, I started in the middle and worked my way to both end machines... My first hit was 150 on the left machine then I moved to the right end and hit 9 times the amount showing which equal out to just over 700 dollars!! At first I thought I had hit the three bonus stars which pays 2500 dollars... I played 20 dollars back then moved back to the middle machine where I started and hit for 245 dollars!!! At that point I was finished playing the machines for the day... Two days later I played the dollar machine and lost 60 dollars so I quit!!

 

The next days was shopping for the wife getting gifts for her two kids and her grand daughter too!!! After taking a money count we had spent 166 dollars so back to the machines I went.. By this day more people had come to the hotel where we stayed until I could hardly ride my scooter... There was a district Pool Tournament with colleges from California and UNLV plus a couple more schools I didn't know!! So it was a bit crowded in every place we went to eat early mornings, noon or evening meal times... I think the pool play was at one of the colleges and two of the casinos, the Rivera across the street from the Circus-Circus hotel and casino where we stayed!!! Every player had their own pool sticks and gear in a case on their shoulder everywhere they went!!!

 

There must have been a thousand penny machines all over the casino where my wife and her family members played most of the times!!! They all departed on Thursday back to New Orleans so we left on Friday and was back home Friday night around 7pm!!! We just had cameras installed two day before we left by our security company, low and behold they broke into my vehicle which was all on camera so our daughter had it all when the police came to investigate... The police knew exactly who they were after looking at the pictures on the cameras and made an arrest quickly!!! Nothing was taken that was in my vehicle but they went through the glove box looking for money, credit cards, gas cards and check books and garage openers left over the visor!!! They didn't even bother the CD's in the door pockets... Guess that wasn't their kind of music..

 

Lucky for me I had taken my scooter out and put it in the house to charge up while we were gone... I will go to the police station on Monday to file the report on any losses I had for anything taken from the vehicle... I imagine they were looking for dope and things to pawn for money plus what I mentioned earlier...

 

Overall, we had a great vacation with my wife's family members coming in from New Orleans... Our church goes to New Orleans in a couple of weeks!! So now it's back to my old routines taking my grand daughter to school and picking her up in the evening about 3pm from school!!! Hanging with her little dog all day, she loves to follow me any where I go so I'm glad I can take her every where I go no questions asked I just have to show my papers stating I'm a 100 percent disable with PTSD... That authorize me to have the dog with me and no questions asked about her being a service dog... That's a good thing about being in a military town with so many wounder soldiers...

 

I will blog again after I read around the site and get the new changes Steve has done for all of us while I was gone on vacation!!! See you!

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Fred sounds like you had fun!!-- we have also learned take a taxi or even a town car ( it costs about the same), when traveling.. Good for you !!

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Fred! What a wonderful trip. I am sorry about the car break in, but someone was guiding you, having that camera installed just in time. I just hope it won't take too much to get the car fixed.

 

Going to Casino ourselves, end of August. I sure hope Bruce has your luck! LOL

 

Thank you for sharing about your problems with mobility during the trip. I am gathering information from Colleen as well. Now with the retirement, I promised Bruce New Mexico next Spring. Like your wife, I will have no help until we get there, so am working out the logistics of getting him on and off the plane, parking at the airport, which airport would be easier, etc. Do I leave him in his WC at the entrance, park the car and hope the airline stows his WC because it certainly is too wide for a plane? All that stuff.  So keep the advice coming.

 

On a roll baby. Nothing like it. And then to be able to get some nice gifts for the family. Great trip. Debbie

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I'm glad you had a good trip Fred. My cousins were there recently and went on the world's largest Ferris wheel. Looks scary.

 

I am typing this on my kindle as a test. I cannot post from my computer for some annoying reason.

 

Julie

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Good to have you back Fred.  I am glad you have had a nice vacation and your wife enjoyed catching up with her family.  I know your little grand daughter will be loving you being back with her and so will her little dog.

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Hi Fred' please that you haded a good time and you won some money that is great!  Sorry about the buses  did not work, like Debbie said  a rented car would have been better and maybe the same cost.  

 

Sorry about your car been broken into. Hope the cost is not too much to repair. Thank goodness they got caught. Sad that some people want to steal from you and you work so hard for what you got.

 

Get some rest Fred.

 

Yvonne

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