12/12/11
My sister and brother-in-law, Donna and Tom arrived a day early from the Grand Canyon. They got here Tuesday 12/6/11, so we left Taffy in the motor home for a couple of hours and we went to the Riverside and had a hot dog then went to the Aqaurius Casino. Everyone won little that day. The next day, Wed. (we boarded Taffy Wed. and Thurs., just day care) and went to the Tropicana, Colorado Belle, Golden Nugget, and the Pioneer casinos. We had lunch at the Golden Nugget at Joes Crab Shack. Excellent fish and chips meal. Then on Thursday, we took the Boat Trip to Davis Dam and also past all the casinos telling a story about each one and how Laughlin got it's start. It was a relaxing trip and fun. We each ordered a drink and visited with the bartender, watched out the windows while a narration of what was on either side of the Colorado River. We went topside for a while but it was so windy, we didn't stay up top very long. It was very smooth on the river and we enjoyed the ride. Had a fun time gambling.
Thursday morning I wanted a cinnamon (sp?) roll so we went to the Cinnabon in the Riverside. 2 rolls and 2 coffees was a whopping $16.00! We could have gotten two full meals at the IHop restaurant where we ate the day before.
Donna and Tom left early Friday Morning 12/9/11 on their way to Modesto, Ca. We left on Sat. heading for Lake Havasu City, Ariz. Arrived at the Crazy Horse RV Park about 1:00 pm. Crossed the London Bridge to get to the island where our campground is. From our campsite. it's a short walk to the beach on Lake Havasu. Very nice wether and no wind. We took pictures of the bridge and drove around town. At night a lot of the rv'rs decorate their trailers and spaces with Christmas lights. It's very pretty. Some have santa hats on their rearview mirrors, rope lights that encircle their rigs. Lots have fiber optic trees in their front windows. Some even have nativity scenes, lighted deer, or lights in the shape of trees in front of their 5th wheels. If there is a tree, they wrap it with lights.
We have a view of the lake from our front window. We'll be here a week.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
12/1/11
On Monday 11/28/11 we drove to the little town of Oatman, 13 miles off of US 95.Route 66 goes right through Oatman, but we're not sure just how much of the road is actually Route 66.
Not much to see on the way until about a mile outside of town.
Then we started seeing Christmas decorated bushes along the sides of the
road. Some had little signs in front of them with sayings on them, some
were honoring the Firemen, or someone's name. Soon we were in Oatman, a town that still looks like the old west, from the gold rush days.
Part of the town looks like a ghost town, with shells of old buildings, houses, sheds, barns, stores and saloons. All the stores that are currently in business look like the old west and are named like Sally's Saloon,
Betsy's Ore House, and so forth. We passed big white burros, and grey baby burros just wandering along the streets. The burros were left there by the miners when the gold rush is over, the Merchants of Oatman have adopted them giving them names and everything. They are free roaming and choose to come into town when the people are there for the carrots. You could buy carrots from the merchants for the big burros, but the babies weren't to have any. The babies have a sticker on their foreheads showing a carrot with a line drawn thru it.
We got there about 11:30 and were informed there would be a gun fight at noon. We all piled out ot the Jeep including Taffy, and several merchants told us to keep the dog away from the burros as they were known to trample dogs on sight as the coyotes kill their young and dogs look like coyotes. Wouldn't you know it but the dang things kept following us around and were very curious of Taffy. Made us both nervous. We watched the gun fight at noon, the picture we got of the bank robber has a sign in the background that says "Gunfight at Noon". Funny.
On Monday 11/28/11 we drove to the little town of Oatman, 13 miles off of US 95.Route 66 goes right through Oatman, but we're not sure just how much of the road is actually Route 66.
Not much to see on the way until about a mile outside of town.
Then we started seeing Christmas decorated bushes along the sides of the
road. Some had little signs in front of them with sayings on them, some
were honoring the Firemen, or someone's name. Soon we were in Oatman, a town that still looks like the old west, from the gold rush days.
Part of the town looks like a ghost town, with shells of old buildings, houses, sheds, barns, stores and saloons. All the stores that are currently in business look like the old west and are named like Sally's Saloon,
Betsy's Ore House, and so forth. We passed big white burros, and grey baby burros just wandering along the streets. The burros were left there by the miners when the gold rush is over, the Merchants of Oatman have adopted them giving them names and everything. They are free roaming and choose to come into town when the people are there for the carrots. You could buy carrots from the merchants for the big burros, but the babies weren't to have any. The babies have a sticker on their foreheads showing a carrot with a line drawn thru it.
We got there about 11:30 and were informed there would be a gun fight at noon. We all piled out ot the Jeep including Taffy, and several merchants told us to keep the dog away from the burros as they were known to trample dogs on sight as the coyotes kill their young and dogs look like coyotes. Wouldn't you know it but the dang things kept following us around and were very curious of Taffy. Made us both nervous. We watched the gun fight at noon, the picture we got of the bank robber has a sign in the background that says "Gunfight at Noon". Funny.
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