Mesa, Az Market Place(Swap meet)

Hopefully, I will get some pictures of this place on which we went to on Friday with Jerry's brothers and their wives. It is 4 pole buildings, each approximately 300 yards long, connected at each end, all divided into approximately 12 x 20 sections, with just about anything you could imagine, for sale. Some are craft items but most are new things. Lots of clothes, many printed shirts, kitchen utensils, tools, artificial flowers, lawn ornaments, you name it and its there someplace. Your caplights came from there last year. Short and I had breakfast there yesterday, 2 eggs, toast, a pile of hash browns, and coffee for $2. It is something that I would recommend anyone coming to the area should go to see. It is open on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Here's the picture

Made It To Mesa!

Here is our home away from home in Mesa. Same spot we have been on for the last 3 years. The piece of the park model you see behind the front of the Motor Home is Short and Sharon's.

Last Day in Vegas

Well, this is our last day in Las Vegas, we played Bingo this morning and didn't win. Did win a little playing around in Sam' Town on penny machines, but didn't get wealthy. Just recovered the money we spent on Bingo.
We took supper out to Rito and Lucy's last night. We just finished watching the Ill.-MSU game and Illinois played their usual. Started good and finished good but was miserable in between. We are going to Al and Shirley's house now to see them. Shirley has been sick and isn't going out but wanted to see us so we're going by there. They are a couple we met thru Herb several years ago.
Leaving tomorrow for Mesa. Plan to go down thru Kingman as the computer says that is the shortest way. It says it is 335 miles, so, we should be there by mid-afternoon.

HERE'S MY SHIRT!

BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS

My birthday celebrations actually lasted 3 days! On Thursday, we were invited to Herb and Margie's that evening for pizza and to watch the Texas-Alabama game, which they had bet $20 for me on Texas. But, as you probably already know, we didn't win.

On Friday we went out to Rito and Lucy's and checked on some things that we wanted to get for the house when Rito comes home from the hospital. We took Lucy to lunch at the Red Rock Hotel and Casino, which is near their house, and I won $15 playing Keno in the cafe, which helped on our bill. After lunch we played a little in the casino and won a little more. We stopped at Home Depot and got a couple things before taking Lucy back home. We were to meet Herb and Margie at Willy and Jose's in Sam's Town at 6 for supper since Sam's Town had given me a free meal for my birthday. Even tho I don't particularly like Mexican food, since it was free, it was hard to turn down. When we went in the hostess said, oh, you also get a free Margarreta(sp?) and a tee shirt. I ordered a ribeye which was very good, and then they brought me a dessert also.

Yesterday, on my actual birthday, we started with Sam's Town's first session of Bingo, where we also get free donuts, coffee, and juice. (However they cost us $10 apiece since we didn't bingo)

We were to be at Lucy's at 1pm so we went to Lowe's where we got some things to use at their house also. We picked up Lucy and went to the hospital to see Rito where we had to wear gowns, masks, and gloves, but he seemed so good compared to how he was when we were here in Sept., that I told him seeing him was the best birthday present I could have! He is getting to go home again today. We stayed a couple hours, then went back to Red Rock and went in the buffet. It had to be the nicest and largest buffet we have ever been in, and everything we tried was very good. It was a little expensive, I think it was $16.95 for the evening meal, but Lucy paid the bill with her points. We played a little then but didn't win, and went back to their house where we hung a valance in their bedroom, and a full length mirror in one of their bathrooms.

We had gotten an apparatus to put on the toilet, which we had done, and also a grab bar to put on the shower wall.

We left there about 8:30 and stopped at a Target to get some weightwatchers desserts but they were out of the one that Dolores wanted so went to another on the way back and they did have some. We had a little problem with them as the price was 85 cents higher at the second store but we complained enough to get them to mark them down, plus, with buying 10 of them, we got a $5 gift card.

We got back to the motor home and watched part of the Illinois-Indiana game, which we had taped, before going to bed. It was going so bad for Illinois that I just couldn't see how they would ever win, but, when we watched the rest of it this morning, were pleasantly surprised!

So, after 3 days of celebrating, I'm exhausted!!!

Okay, it took me forever to get that picture on here, and I know that it's not the way I wanted, but I am learning, and I think I'll get better at it. Grandma keeps telling me to call one of the girls but being stubborn as I am, I'D RATHER DO IT MYSELF!
I have another picture of Grandma and me that I hope to get into our "profile".
Also found a picture of brother Jim and I on his 90th birthday that I would like to have on someday.
Well, it is now 1:15 in the afternoon and we are still in our pj's. We are supposed to go to Herb's at 5 and watch the Texas-Alabama game so best get going.

WE MADE IT!!!

I planned to write a lot about our day to day travel on the way out but after being a day late getting started because of snow and ice on the roads, having a cross wind and wet road from home to St. Louis, stopping at 5 on Monday night so we could set up the satellite dish to watch the Vikings-Bears game, only getting to Oklahoma City on the second day because it was snowing for the next 100 miles and we pulled in to a campground at 4 in the afternoon, left the next morning in the fog and when we stopped to get LP gas the attendant had trouble filling our tank so that took an hour, then when we got almost to Albuquerque it started snowing again so hard that we drove the next 40 miles in blizzard conditions at about 20 mph for at least 30 of it, the next morning it was so windy it was rocking the MH when we got up so we waited a while before taking off, and then there was a traffic accident on I40 that held up traffic for 2 and a half hours plus another construction stop for 30 minutes, but we did get to Williams, Az where we stayed for the night in about a foot of snow and it got down to 13 degrees, I think we were the only overnighters in the RV Park, the next morning was yesterday morning and we got the earliest start of the trip, so we made it to Las Vegas to our RV Park at noon, but I thought that would be kinda dumb and nobody would really care anyway, so just decided to write that we made it.
We couldn't tell what color the car and MH were when we got here because of all the road dirt so found a car wash up the street that we went to and cleaned them up a little. We did get the lot that we asked for as we had been on it before, and liked it. We met Herb and Margie last night for supper at TGI Fridays, and went to the sports book today to watch Illinois get beat by Gonzaga. We have the MH all set up now and even did a load of laundry today. Now we are going out to the super walmart across the street for bread, milk, etc.
Guess that is about it for now, hopefully the next time we will have a picture or two to add.
Bye Bye