Left awfully early on the bus from Catalina Spa on Monday morning. Off to Laughlin for a couple of overnights, in the small gambling town in Nevada. About 3 and a half hours from our area.
Stayed at Colorado Belle which looks like a riverboat, and the next day we spent the day traveling to Oatman, a gold mining town in the early 1900s which has hokey little shops, and wild burros who wander into town to mooch carrots and alfalfa pellets from the tourists. The burros were left behind when the miners pulled out of the mining area after the mines shut down for good. But an interesting note is that now that gold is so expensive, the mines have reopened again and I think we heard that there were about 150 miners there now.
A fun outing. Back in Laughlin we both lost a bit of money to the "one armed bandits" there, did a bit of shopping at the outlet shops, and enjoyed ourselves for a couple of days away from home. Home on Wednesday, I had very kindly given my cold to Lary who by then was feeling dreadful.
We had spent the weekend over in Dana Point with our aunt Penny and her family, who are all wonderful. She gathers her three daughters and their families together, and we get to visit them all at once. Such fun seeing the next generation growing and developing. It is so nice to have a catchup with them all at one time. Mary and her two boys have moved out, but live nearby, with her fiance a very nice man Dave.
Thursday Di had a flute lesson with Annie, and Lary stayed home with his cold.
About Me
- Di and Lary
- Di and Lary are both retired, Lary was in the Canadian Armed Forces as an Air Navigator, 32 years, and Di did many things, but the most fulfilling was teaching, for 3 years on an Indian Reserve in Central BC and later 7 years teaching ESL, both in Canada and in Europe, in Spain and later Germany.