Thursday afternoon Elaine dropped me at the local Hertz office at Hayden and Raintree, and I picked our rental car for drop-off in Las Vegas. It’s an all black four door Dodge Avenger – pretty nice car actually.
We shoved off from home at 9:30 this morning after packing the car, shutting off the water, and turning down the thermostat. We started out by immediately stopping at McDonald’s on FLW for our first vacation meal, a combined breakfast/lunch. We had our usual fare – Sausage McMuffins with Egg and Hash Browns. Can’t beat it.
The drive was uneventful and after 4-1/2 hours we checked in at the Marriott Springhill Suites in Henderson (after only a brief rest room, get-a-Coke stop). The Last Vegas area is under a flood warning with ominous skies overhead. I quickly went out and found a market to buy a bottle of wine – a nice cheap Georges DuBoeuf Beaujolais-Villages. We brought our own snack food.
After using the hotel computer to check in with Virgin Atlantic and print out our boarding passes (can’t do until 4:40 pm), we will head out for an early dinner at a Carrabba’s located nearby. I normally get Chicken Bryan, a dish I love, but I may opt out for steak tonight.
Tomorrow morning we will check and go to South Point Casino (well away from the hustle and bustle of the strip) and bet the races at Belmont Park and Churchill Downs. [note: Elaine was telling people we would be at the Gold Coast – she was mistaken] At about 12:30, we’ll head out from there for the airport to turn in the car and await our 4:40 departure for London Gatwick.
No pictures today. Nothing really to photograph. Next posting will most likely be Sunday night from Windsor in the UK. With the time change, no one is likely to see the post until Tuesday morning.
Cheers until then.
