just another day in paradise......

So here are a couple of pictures of our room. Yes your eyes are not deceiving you that is a full size bed. Mike and I are both king size people and we are functioning, sleeping on a full size bed, I do miss our bed back home. We have a full kitchen so we can make stuff when we are hungry. It's nicer than being in the loud smokey casinos. Nathan thought is was funny that the grocery store even had a room with slot machines in it. Notice that I am just chillin' while I'm here and actually putting a puzzle together.

Michael's beloved van has failed us. It broke down on the way to the airport to pick us up. We need to drive it home after this whole thing is over. So yesterday Nathan and I spent 21/2 hours at a garage. I was making calls about "The Beast" or sitting in a garage until 3:00 PM.

The older man I finally found to work on the car is active LDS and gave me his church resume' so I would feel comfortable using him. He is a high priest group leader, a temple worker, and a scouter. He is also a dutch oven master cook, putting on a fund raiser for 300 Saturday night with tons of dutch ovens, for their youth to go on a trek. He had pictures to share of his dutch oven stuff, just sitting in his desk. So I figure if he cheats us it's on his head.

Mike took Nathan and I along to a dinner last night. It was for a certain group of guys he works with. We went to Mandalay Bay, it is a huge casino and pretty nice. We went to an upscale Mexican Food Restaurant. We sat outside by the lazy river and the breeze just blew, it was soooo nice. The food was good there were 12 of us, and the bill was $900. I bet only half of the bill was food, and the other half was liqueur. It just really makes me glad we don't drink, besides all of the other reasons, it's just to expensive.

We learned a few things from a guy from England and a guy from Australia. We learned that a "Dutch oven" is when you let "Polly out of prison" under the covers, then lift the covers up over your head to share it with your nearest and dearest. It sheds a new light on our mechanic who is a master at dutch ovens!:-)