Yes I know my last post was long, this one will probably be long also. Get over it.

Ok, so I woke up at 5:30a Vegas time. I let Michelle sleep until about 7am.

She woke up with her first beer hangover. Now she understands why I don’t drink beer anymore.

It was a long night trying to sleep. Every 15-20 mins there would be a loud banging noise. Come to find out it was the air conditioning.

On the way to breakfast we stopped by the front desk & told them about it. After breakfast we headed back up to the room to get ready for our drive out to the Valley of Fire State Park. After about 5 minutes the maintenance man showed up. He was a very nice guy. He messed with the A/C & said the problem was something with the metal covered filter not fitting tight. He said he would get some velcro put on it & get it to stay in place. As he was leaving I decided he deserved a tip. He said he would make sure it was quiet by the time we returned.

The drive out to Valley of Fire took about 45 mins or so & was awesome. We saw a lot of scenery neither of us had seen before. The rock “mountains” are actually sandstone formations “formed from great shifting sand dunes during the age of dinosaurs, 150 million years ago”

Here are some pics –

I saw these holes way up the side of the mountain that looked like caves & had to go check them out -

If you look close, you can see me in this one -

Here is a pic I took with my phone of the “cave” -

Michelle stayed down where it was safe & took pictures -

Here is a couple links to panoramic pics I took -

Pic 1

Pic 2

If you want to see all the other pics, here are the links -

Pics taken with camera

Pics taken with Iphone

We got back to the hotel about 5pm. After arriving back in the room I once again heard the horrible LOUD banging of the A/C. So I called the front desk & asked them to tell Doug (that was the maintenance guy) and let him know the noise was still there. With in what seemed like 2 minutes Doug was knocking on our door. He said he thought it was fixed. I had figured out the noise happened every time the A/C shut off. Doug figured out it was the water pipe that controlled the cooling of the temperature that was making the banging noise. Every time the A/C shut off the water pressure made a BANG. Doug told us he technically was off the clock & wasn’t sure what to do to fix the problem. Then he asked if we could live with it until the morning. I started to say no & then he said if we could, he may be able to get us upgraded to the next higher room. So I told him if he could do that, yes we could deal with it 1 more night. I don’t think he would have offered the upgrade if I wouldn’t have tipped him.

We decided to order room service for lunch since the prices were almost exactly the same as down in the restaurant & that way we could rest after our journey. Here is a pic of my burger -

While Michelle took a nap, I decided to go visit the Wheel of Fortune machine that was so generous to me the day before. With in 30 minutes I had lost $60 on it. Well that was fun, interesting, a learning experience.

After Michelle woke up, she said she wanted to go to bingo. She loves bingo & there isn’t really anywhere to play around where we live, so I agreed. I had thought bingo was an old lady game. Yeah, I was wrong. You would be surprised at how many younger people were there & guys too. So I got an electronic machine. The thing was awesome. You didn’t have to do anything but sit there & watch it. Bingo was fun. $60 for both of us to “gamble” for 1 hr. The cheapest gambling we had found so far & people were actually winning. Some sessions paid $480 & you had the chance of winning up to $5000 on the last game.

After bingo we went back to our hotel for dinner. The restaurant their had $7.95 prime rib special (included 2 vegetables & soup or salad). Hell for that price I expected something barely resembling prime rib. I was wrong. We were served the same style prime rib I have paid $25 for elsewhere. Guess what we ate almost every night for dinner???

Here is the view from the restaurant looking out over the casino –

Michelle decided not to drink, but I picked up her slack by throwing back a few Captain Morgan & diet cokes.

Around 1am I won $72 on the nickel slot machines. This softened the blow of losing $50 right before that at the card tables.

Got to sleep around 1am, but once again woke up around 6am. Damn, I need to get sleep sometime. Put ear plugs in so I wouldn’t have to listen to the A/C banging.

Ok, that is it for day 2. Not as long of a write up as day 1 was.

Now on to day 3.

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