Our RV Adventures

Today started off with a trip to the ATM for some cash and then a stop at the RV park office to sign up for another week here in Las Vegas.

It’s a nice park, not too expensive (only about $125/wk + elec.), and convenient to the Thousand Trails RV Park where our friends Nick and Terry Russell are staying.

The only downside (downsides?) are that the sites are narrow and there’s no real shade.

Speaking of Nick and Terry, we headed over to their rig and picked them up about 12:30 pm and drove over to Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville restaurant for lunch.

We had eaten at his original restaurant in Key West last year and really enjoyed it, so we wanted to give this one a try.

Jan had the same Monterey Chicken Sandwich that she had in Key West, and really enjoyed it again. I, of course, had to have a Cheeseburger in Paradise. Nick and Terry also had sandwiches.

After we finished eating, we make the obligatory gift shop stop where Jan got her a Margaritaville Las Vegas T-shirt.

When we got back out on the street we encountered these brightly-feathered guys.

So following up on the whole Jimmy Buffet – Parrothead concept, here are some parrot heads.

We next decided to drive the Strip again trying to get some more pictures of the different casinos.

This is Paris Casino. I assume the balloon sign refers to the Montgolfier brothers,who are credited with inventing and flying in the first hot air balloon in the 1780’s.

And, of course, what would Paris be without the Eiffel Tower.

There’s also New York New York which models the New York skyline,complete with the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty..

And, although it’s not a casino, for some strange reason, this flying saucer-shaped building houses a fashion show center

Finishing up on the Strip we decided to check out The Gold and Silver Pawn Shop, otherwise known as the History Channel’s Pawn Stars,

We even saw one of the show’s stars, Chumlee, who seems to be the court jester//comic relief on the show.

Nice tats!

And Jan got herself a new opal ring.

Sweets for the Sweet.

Leaving the pawn shop, we wanted to check out The Gun Store. They have billboards all over town advertising that you can rent and fire a machine gun on their in-store range. We found out it cost $50 for 50 rounds and $25 for each additional 50.

They were pretty busy, so we’ll probably come back tomorrow. Jan wants to shoot a Thompson Submachine Gun, otherwise know as the Tommy Gun from the Prohibition Era.

By now it was almost 5pm, but with our big lunch no one was hungry for supper, so we decided to just get some ice cream at Dairy Queen,

Unfortunately, the Dairy Queen we chose was inside the Boulder Station Casino.  So $10 of ice cream cost me $40, what with our $30 contribution to the Las Vegas economy via the slot machines.

We got back to the rig a little after 6pm, where I resumed fighting “The Great Toilet Wars”

More Reports from the battlefront soon…