Monday is basically over, even out here in Las Vegas. This has been just another weird day for this trip. This vacation has just been one "corn fuzzle"  after another. Between me being sick and other stuff, I'm not unhappy we came --- but I'm not sure it was worth it. Yesterday we moved to the Palazzo for our final three days here and to register and play in a slot tournament. Ms. Kate was an "invited guest" and she was allowed to bring "a guest" to play also but I had to pay $100.00 entry fee. Of course, we ended up with different playing times which was "ok" but not our desired outcome.

Well, this morning we awoke in time to get ready to go ---- however  ---- our hotel had no water this morning; ergo -- no showers or toilet water, or brush your teeth water. Luckily we had filled the ice bucket last night to have with our soda. We could use that to at least take our first morning pills. Well about thirty minutes before Ms. Kate's tournament our water came back so we could at have a shower and get decent before we went down even if we did do it in Code Red response time.

Well, --- we need not have hurried. All of the computers were down that they were to use for the tournament and we were on hold. The tournament started an hour and a half late which pushed all of the sessions back too. In the mean time the casino had given everybody a card that said that the casino was going to do a major system upgrade today between 1330 and 1630 hours. We could still play and would still get payouts but could not accumulate any "points" which is what gets us these free rooms etc. But --- what the heck. So, after I played my first round, we went to the Grand Deluxe Cafe for lunch only to be told that the hotel system was down and they couldn't apply any charges to the hotel rooms. Yeh ---- it has been Monday all day long.

The best part of the day was attending the Clint Holmes show this evening . Ms. Kate and Karen have seen his show before and we had free ticket to see it as part of Ms. Kate's hotel package. Tomorrow night we are going to see another show here in the hotel called RAZ. It too is a musical, and I hope it will be good since we paid pretty good money for this one.

The weather is great here for the next couple of days with temperatures above normal and in the 60's. I suspect it will be a lot different when we get off of the plane at midnight on Wednesday night in Louisville. We'll spend Wednesday night at Julie and Jim's house and drive home on Thursday morning.

That's it my friends. It is time to tuck this Monday into the trash can and call it done. I pray your Tuesday, (and ours) will be a lot better. I must first give thanks to God for the improvement in y cold and systems. It is wonderful to be able to breathe freely again. Have a good night.