Day 3

 

                              

Day 3 of The Trip has started extremely early.  As I type this, it's 5:30 here, and I've been up an hour.  It's not that I couldn't sleep - it's just that I went to bed at 9:30 last night and after my usual 7 hours of sleep I was ready to get up.  It's starting to get daylight, but when I got up and looked out the window, the sky and the neon lights were just gorgeous.  Just before dawn is the prettiest time of the day here that I've seen) .

This morning starts the driving portion of our trip.  We'll get our rental car and head first to Red Rock Canyon, and then back to Hoover Dam and our stop for the night will be in Laughlin.

Yesterday wore us out - it's no wonder we went to bed at 9:30.  We walked probably 4 miles throughout the day, and even though we spent a lot of time in the different casinos where we were sitting down, it still wore us out.  So today there shouldn't be too much walking for the 'Rents like yesterday.  But they're troopers and are two of the toughest people that I know, and they're ready to go at a moment's notice. 

I'm hoping that at Laughlin tonight Dad will hit one of the slot machines big and win some serious bank.  He didn't do too good yesterday, but I, on the other hand, was a big winner.  I think we've got a total of $250 in our TV fund.  I hope to have more in there tonight at Laughlin.