Author: Mary-Ann Knight

Happy Birthday to me!!  Poured most of the day, we aren’t very lucky with the weather.  It normally does not rain and is much warmer.

Dinner at the casino!  We were all too busy eating to take photos then off to gamble a bit!

Allan does the best winning $171 🙂   So much fun winning!!!  I, however blew through my $20 without delay. Our discovery today … The green means the tank is mostly empty.  It does change to orange        and a  dangerous red!

Los Algodones, or Molar City Mexico here we come. This town has over 350 dentists.  Out and about we go.

Wilf getting boots polished

And a delicious Mexican lunch with super wonderful friends  and oh those margaritas  🙂

During lunch Shelly negotiated a deal on toe rings!  She shared, this is my first ever….  Thank you Shelly :))

Walking back across the border.  Allan loves and need to buy this yellow shirt.

Dinner at Lutes Casino, Yuma.  Big eating day.

Vacation is so much fun, another mostly sit and soak up the sun.  We visited our first Fry’s for groceries.

The flecks we encountered in Bailey last trip are trying to come back.

Then sat around again into the night.

 

Today was a hang around, soak up sun go to Sam’s Club and Walmart kind of day.

It was also Wilf & Allan tinker around to figure out some of Bailey’s mysteries.

When all else fails RTFM (read the fuc$%#@ manual)

We are relatively close to train tracks, getting used to the whistle 2 long, 1 short, 1 long.

 

 

First full day!  

We are all set up.  🙂

Lazing around a bit before heading to flea markets.

First Arizona Flea Market where I bought a super duper scrubber for pans then off to the Yuma Swap Meet where we purchased nothing.

Then off the to the Verizon store.  Allan and his gadgets!

Back home to the best time of the day.

 

Reunited and it feels so good!

Left Toronto Pearson at 945a, were scheduled to leave at 925, late again that is why Air Canada has so many little planes, cause they do not pull out on time.  Arrived in Phoenix about 1240p local time.  Uber to Goodyear to pick up Bailey from storage at Palm Gate Storage.  Starting km 47,625.

2p We are now enroute to Yuma for an exciting week with 3 other RV couples.  Wilf (childhood friend) & Brenda, Wilf’s parents Tom & Irma who spend Winters in Yuma, and Wilf’s sister and husband Shelley & Jim.  I’m pretty sure the park will not be the same when we leave.

We arrive in Yuma proper around 4 and head to Walmart for much needed groceries.  We buy the essentials enough for dinner tonight and breakfast in the morning.

We arrive at the park, McCoy Mobile Home/RV Park about 6p to our second back in spot.  Of course this time we are amongst friends and mostly everyone else in the RV park watching us back in.  Got in but took 3 attempts.

Everyone is here except Wilf & Brenda who arrived closer to midnight and exhausted.

 

 

 

 

On the road again heading to Goodyear! Starting km 47,605.

Lots of beautiful scenery. Desert, hills, mountains lots of rocks. Huge elevation changes, ear popping!

Fun is over for now 🙁  We drop Bailey in storage and Uber it to the airport for our midnight 30 flight.  First a beverage or two!

 

Another walk to Fremont St. A friend, Leigh (Leslie to us) had explained what Pawn Stars was. Walking by today there wasn’t a lineup so in we go. Tons of stuff & people, we walk down the aisle and back.  We left pretty quick.

This time we notice a place called “Heart Attack Grill, Over 350 lbs eat for free”. What a gimmick!

Back to Circus Circus we go.  On the road again tomorrow heading to Chandler.

We decide today we will gamble on the strip. I’m very cheap but in honour of my Mum who loved to gamble we sit down at a $1 slot machine at Casino Royale.

Our big time gambling limit is $20 a day, by then we’ve normally lost interest.  The machine we select has a Spin to Win wheel, $18 with little return, last 2 bucks YAHOO a spin comes up, spin, spin, spin  WIN $500. Cash out immediately!! Such fun winning.

Tonight’s show, Paranormal – Mind Reading Magic.  Frederic Da Silva is truly amazing. He calls people to stage by randomly throwing 3 Frisbees in the audience the 3 catchers then through them.

Allan caught one! Allan on stage really stole the show 😊

A must see show when in Vegas.  It was our favourite of the 3 we saw this trip.

We spent a quiet day because tonight is showtime! Zumanity Cirque du Soleil, in New York New York Casino.

Chef Allan makes us a delicious breakfast, complete with his famous Caesar beverage and beer 🙂  Chef Ramsay beware!!

The show was entertaining, fun, lots of laughs even saw 2 near naked ladies swimming in a fish bowl.

Now for after the show dinner.  We see a Ginseng Korean BBQ off the strip.  We enter and quickly determine it must be authentic as we are the only non Koreans. We stumble through ordering as there is a language barrier but do surprisingly well. They put scissors on the table, I say “She forgot her scissors isn’t that weird?” Turns out the scissors are used to cut the meat. Chop sticks don’t come with knives!

Food was delicious, restaurant a great find.   All in all a fabulous day!