Sunday, March 6 through Thursday, March 10
We met Skip and Susan in Laughlin on Sunday evening. We parked our trailer and headed for a room at the Aquarius Hotel Casino. Rooms in Laughlin on weekdays are quite reasonable. Plus, with 2-for-1 coupons for breakfast and buffet, most days we did well on economizing. Well, as food goes the only economy was realized in our pocketbooks. Eating out encourages over-eating, and enticing menus tempt imprudent eating. Basically, we all need to diet after this fun week.
The highlights were spending time together - the four of us, shopping at the Laughlin Outlet Mall – Susan and me, a jet-boat trip down the Colorado River through Topock Gorge to Lake Havasu City – Susan and me, and lots and lots of laughter.
Picture this: After finishing a penny game of Monopoly on the slot machines, Susan fed her player's card back in to see how many points she had accumulated. (If you don't already know, it takes years and hours and hours of slot play to accumulate enough points to amount to anything.) It wasn't until the card's near disappearance into the slot machine that Susan realized that she had fed the card into the money slot instead of the slot for the player's card. Because she was wearing her playing card lanyard around her neck, the machine started to pull her in. Got the picture? Susan managed to extricate herself with a sharp tug after first making an expression I wish I'd caught on camera. Forgive me, Susan, for telling this tale, but it was just too good to pass up.
We did decide to purchase the 3g USB WiFi connector and card from Walmart. While Susan and I were jetting down the river to Havasu, Duffy tried to connect to the Internet. While the connection was a success, the quality of connection was not. It turned out to be our laptop that was having issues, so Duffy gave up the work he hoped to get done. Concerned about compromising Internet security, we chose to wait to use the laptop until it was checked out or repaired. After dinner on Wednesday, in an effort to determine whether or not the laptop was on the fritz because of the WiFi USB hub or not, I intended to take it to the Starbucks in the Aquarius Hotel where there was free WiFi. Wouldn't you know it, Starbucks was closed by 8pm. Did they know I was coming, or what? Another delay in WiFi progress. Rats!
On Thursday, we all went our separate ways, Skip & Susan back to San Diego (El Cajon really) and Duffy and me to Borrego Springs. Snowbirds are beginning to discover this gem in San Diego County, a desert rimmed by mountains, with Bakersfield to the west and the Salton Sea and Palm Springs to the east. Campsites with hookups were filled up, so we opted for a spot near the bathroom with no hookups. We're prepared for dark evenings with our headlamps, flashlights, and for me, my NookColor eReader I got for Christmas. It's backlit so I can read without need for lights. And, because it's evening when we arrived...
Until next time, Pam
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