Day One Hundred Forty Seven 2013

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE!

The hills are alive with the sound of music! Me and the Chief Blue Meanie in the Beatles LOVE gift shop this afternoon at the Mirage, drooling over all the cool Beatles stuff.

This is why Neil and I came to Las Vegas ~ to see The Beatles LOVE Cirque du Soleil show. We enjoyed every second of it. The sights and sounds were so overwhelmingly awesome I wanted to weep. I think I did just a little. The music and the performances took my breath away. It was worth every single penny. I didn’t want it to end. I’d love to see it again.

We couldn’t take pictures during the performance. Snapped this on the way out. They were cleaning up the stage even as we were filing out. I can’t begin to describe to you how jaw dropping this show was.

I think the house was full.

The guy in the picture looks like a young Mel Gibson. Didn’t even know he was in my picture til now.

This morning Neil and I went to old Las Vegas ~ Fremont Street. This is what it looked like in the daylight.

We went back tonight after the LOVE show to see the light show and got treated to this spectacle and a mini Heart concert on the ceiling.

It was WOW.

Lots of half naked people running around here.

This one’s for Knox. I can’t believe the number of families we’ve seen here. Lots of kids around. I guess there’s something for everyone. We had such a good time today. Have to get up way too early to catch a bus to the Grand Canyon in the morning. Fun stuff.

Day One Hundred Forty Six 2013

VIVA LAS VEGAS!




















Sin City….I mean, Las Vegas….is hot, windy, crowded, congested, colorful and noisy~all on steroids. Neil and I rented a little car, which turned out to be a good thing, and spent the day driving and walking and exploring this alien place [to me anyway~I’ve never been anywhere]. We’ll be here for a few days, staying at the Mirage [our room is at the end of that long hallway in the last picture]. Looking forward to seeing the Cirque du Soleil Beatles Love show Monday evening and a trip to the Grand Canyon Tuesday. And maybe I’ll drop a quarter into a one-armed bandit before we leave.

Day One Hundred Forty Five 2013

Ever Lovin Saturday!

Neil and I are spending the night with daughter Kelly, son in law Kerry and grandson Knox. Murfreesboro is all set up for their Memorial Day celebration. This field of flags was pretty breathtaking, as far as the eye could see.

Knox loves this way cool playground/park near their home and was excited to be there.

He was a blur coming down that slide so fast. He loves the slides.

Knox says ‘Happy Saturday, everybody!’ Summer has officially begun!

Day One Hundred Forty Four 2013

Happy T G I F, y’all!

Day One Hundred Forty Three 2013

School is out. The grandpeeps Elijah and Shelby were hanging with me today. This morning they played with their iPad and Nintendo 3DS. Right before lunch, they flipped on the TV and ended up on Animal Planet, watching ‘Gator Boys’, which I’d never seen. As you might guess, it’s a ‘reality’ show where some guys and a couple of girls hunt and capture alligators and remove them from somebody’s backyard swamp or swimming pool or garage or wherever [even one small one from a restaurant fountain]. They take them to an alligator sanctuary so the gators can live in joy and love and peace and harmony with other gators. Not a bad deal, actually. And that’s what we did literally the whole day ~ watch ‘Gator Boys’, one right after the other. Apparently, it’s Monster Week on Animal Planet. We enjoyed being slugs all day, but I have to admit, I’m a little burned out on gators right now.