What a hectic couple of days we've had since arriving in Las Vegas. It's been exciting, fun, frustrating and a little bit 'scary'...yep, scary. First things first.
Frustrating - As we were pulling out of St. George yesterday we discovered we had a tear in our roof. Mark climbed up and after checking it out discovered that a relatively large piece of our rubber roof cover top had been torn. We're not exactly sure how it happened or how long it had been there. So as soon as we arrived in Las Vegas and got settled in we called for a local RV repairman to come out. The bad news is it's going to run around $600 for repair. Unfortunately, looks like our insurance won't kick in since we elected to have a higher deductible since we rarely seem to need insurance. Murphy's law I guess. They're supposed to be out early tomorrow morning and the front 1/3 of the roof will need to be replaced. It's supposed to take a couple of guys 5 hours for repair...a lot of work I guess. Oh well, 'stuff' happens huh?
Scary - As soon we got our roof situation handled after arriving we headed out for a bite to eat. Afterwards we decided to have our mail forwarded to us from our mail forwarding service as we needed to get our new car tags. After locating the Post Office in Vegas that handles 'General Delivery' mail, we headed down there to get the mailing address. Since it was on the far end of the Vegas strip (the side that is much much older and quite run down and well, 'seedy' you might say). There wasn't really any where for Mark to park so I hopped out to go in and get the Post Office mailing address. And...
Within 30 seconds of entering the Post Office all "HELL" broke loose! A young guy in line started screaming and cussing at a female attendant behind the counter. Instead of being afraid she starts screaming back at him and they were 'both' cussing each other out. Then the guy walks to the front of the counter saying "I have a gun in this pocket b#$@ch and I'm gonna kill you"!! He then proceeds to jump over the counter and a security guard comes out of no where and he starts yelling and pulling the guy off the counter and slamming him against the wall!!! The guy screams out "you don't have no f^^$%ng gun but I do to the guard". They're dialing 911 as this happens.
The young guy and security guard start wrestling around and pushing each other and he keeps telling everyone he has a gun and reaches in his pocket. I was so shocked I didn't do anything! Just stood there frozen like an idiot instead of running. Sheesh. Guess I'm not good in emergency situations huh? The security guard pulls the guy out the front door and you could still hear them both screaming at each other. Then I didn't know whether to leave or not and guess what another mail attendant said to me then? Welcome to downtown Vegas! Can you believe that? Even the female attendant didn't look scared and me? I'm thinking I've been in Vegas for 2 hours and I'm gonna get shot if not killed!
After getting the PO address I shot out of there where Mark was waiting in the car. After telling Mark what happened we realized that what happened was a federal offense, entering a Federal Building and saying you have a gun?? I don't know if the dude did or not...but I told Mark that from Now on--HE can go in these places, I'll wait in the car. I honestly haven't been that afraid since I was actually robbed when I was 16 years old working in a Pizza place. Whew, I won't forget this day that's for sure.
Fun & Exciting! Finally. After leaving the Post Office coming back down the strip I recognized the Pawn shop on TV. It's called Pawn Stars and I just had to go in and check it out. Awesome. I recognized several of the items from the TV show and we both enjoyed it. This morning, we were up early and on the strip by 9:30. We spent the entire day on the strip and went through many of the hotels including Paris Paris, New York New York, Monte Carlo, MGM, Caesars Palace, etc. We did a little gambling, not much. Seems like I always end up on the plus side and Mark on the negative. We figure our net loss for the day was around $15.00. Not bad for several hours of gambling huh?
Tomorrow our roof is being repaired and we need to stock up on groceries, etc., so we'll take the 'day off', so to speak. We're planning on taking a short trip to check out the Hoover Dam this week. We saw it many years ago, but it was so foggy we didn't get to see much. We also will go back to the strip for pictures...decided not to bring the camera today. We'll be here a week in order to get our mail delivery so we probably won't be heading out of here until next Monday.
We're considering a possible change in plans once we leave here. Stay tuned and once we make a decision, I'll update the blog. So, until later~
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