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!!!