April 10, 2010

Saturday 10~~~~We left for Laughlin, Nevada this morning where we will be staying a week. We have a neat spot at the Riverside RV Park up on the hill overlooking the strip and at night the view is beautiful with all the Casino lights so bright and colorful. we got here about 3:30 and Mass is at the Casino at 4:00, so Kent finished setting up the cable while I went to Mass in the "Bingo Parlor"
of the Casino. It sure seems funny to see all these people sitting at those long bingo tables attending Mass, I think it is great that Don Laughlin (who the town is named after and who owns the casino) provides this room for the church every week to use for Mass. The Mass attendance for last week was 2043 and the collection was $15,030.26. That is a lot of money for a small church here in the desert to collect. Kent said he saw an ad that said they have church services for the Lutheran's there now also. Sunday 11~~~~ There was a Keno Tournament at the Avi Casino about 10 miles from here, so we drove over and Kent played in the tournament and we both played in the free slot machine tournament. Neither one of did any good on the slots, but it was free, so it was fun to play the machine for 10 minutes and see how much money you would have made if you had been playing money. LOL I spent most of the afternoon watching the Masters Golf tournament in the lounge area. They had lovely over stuffed lounge chairs to sit on, so it was very nice. I was happy to see Mickelson win the tournament, everyone cheered when it was over and he won. Needless to say, I didn't gamble much, so I came home with most of my money. Kent didn't win the Keno tournament, but he won most of his entry fee back. I think he needed his Keno buddy Gary there to pick the numbers with him, they do real well together. We enjoy the TV shows on Sunday night, so that is what we did when we got home.