Boulder City, NV - 05-10-2008

Sitting in my brown leather recliner, in the back of my 5th wheel, watching a halfway decent movie on TMC... waiting for Mimi to get here. We're going to breakfast somewhere, not sure where. We would be doing something more extravagant this weekend, but I am recovering from a cold. I just slept for about 16 hours. I haven't been getting enough sleep lately. I'm working on an open-store remodel of the PF Chang's restaurant at the Planet Hollywood Hotel on the strip. We work Monday - Friday from 1AM until 10AM, but I am often there from about 12AM-11AM... or longer. Luckily I haven't had to work weekends, yet. In the last few weeks I've done some good travelling... Last week Mimi and I flew to Chicago. The week before we stayed in Vegas but got a room at Mandalay Bay and stayed by the pool on Sunday. The week before that we drove to Mexico, a small town on the Gulf of California called Puerto Penasco. The week before that we went to Zion National Park.

The week before that I went to the Mojave Desert & Lake Havasu by myself while Mimi was in LA. The week before that, we both went to the Grand Canyon. That was our first trip together, but the weekend before that we did some hiking at the hot springs just over the Hoover Dam in Arizona. Her friend Yona was here that weekend, too. She's coming next weekend as well. The weeks that proceeded the hot springs I was alone... but I had met up with some people I knew from High School and College that I connected with on Facebook. I'm still waiting for one of them to give me a contact to a fraternity brother of mine that I've heard is out here.

So that brings me back to February 29th, the day I got here. I spent my first 2 nights at the Oasis RV resort in Las Vegas, which more of a white trash resort than a nice campground. So on that Sunday I kept my reservation at the Boulder Oaks RV Resort in Boulder City, NV, and I've stayed there for that past 2 months and glad that I have. It's a quite retirement community and vacation spot with great views of desert mountains and the bright blue Lake Mead. Also you can actually see the stars at night, which is a rarity in the Vegas area. It's a 30 minute drive to the strip, but I find it to be worth it regardless of the $4.20/gal deisel fuel costs. Mimi's apartment is on the way, and Howard Stern keeps a smile on my face.

In the past 2 months, I've also seen a lot of shows in Vegas. Mimi turned me on to a website of free tickets for locals, which has helped us see lots of shows for cheap and or free. We've seen several comedy shows, Elvis impersonators, Toxic Audio, Stomp Out Loud, Rossanne Barr, etc etc etc.

Got to run.