Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[Knottikay]

Just catching up.....

Congratulations. Make sure you have less work and more play now. Best wishes to the future to you and Gill.

[Nakor]

Just catching up - Huge congratulations on the cash

Hope you will both be very happy together (with Gill not the cash).

Now enough of those distractions, lets go bracelet hunting please.

[Junior Senior]

Congrats Tony, what great news.

[bobby1]

So happy for you mate, congratulations to both of you.
x

[Marky147]

Great news, congratulations to you both.

[DaveShoelace]

Congratulations pops, I'll give my mum the bad news.

[Omm]

wow, great news, congratulations, Party to celebrate? Could be attached to the Blonde bash. Anyway wish you both all the best for the future, Does gill have an interest in Concrete and Allotments or do opposites really attract?

[MrDickie]

Its taken many years and 2850ish pages for this diary to reach its peak but it was well worth the wait. Many congratulations. 

[The Wycher]

I had turned the engine off whilst we watched, open mouthed, almost gasping, at these little chipmunks.

But we were not done yet.

Something caught my eye about 100 yards ahead, & there, just standing there, in the middle of he deserted road, as the sun was fading, was a herd of (thank you google) mule deer.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule_deer

These are quite small, not as big as regular deer, and there were 20 or 30 of them. We watched them until it was dark. They were nervous & skittish, & we even saw two of them doing that jousting thing with their antler things. 

 

Click to see full-size image.

All of that - the roadrunners, the humming birds, Palmers Chipmunk, & Mule Deer, was within an hour.

If I've ever enjoyed an hour more than that, I don't recall it. What a thrill, what a stroke of luck to be right time, right place, & right company.

Love that story (just catching up with the diary from the weekend) makes me want to go to vegas even more. My ideal holiday is highlands of Scotland, where you always have that chance of turning a corner and seeing deer or red squirrels etc. Thankfully kids still like it so it happens every year at moment.

Thanks Wycher.

I did not expect much feedback, after all it's a poker forum, but I'm glad a few enjoyed it. It really was an extraordinary hour, seeing humming birds, Palmers Chipmunks, Mule Deer, Roadrunner birds, wow, that will never happen to us again, but we made the most of it.

I still have the rest of the Pacific Adventure to report, hopefully later today.

I agree as to Highlands of Scotland. If I had to choose one place on earth to go on holiday, I think it would be a cottage by a loch in the Highlands of Scotland, with SoCal a close second. Gill would probably do it the other way round, she enjoys the sun, whereas I have developed an allergy to bright light & sunshine, so it's not possible for me to stay outside in the sun for more than 30 minutes.

I think my wife and I would be the same she needs sun and that is the one thing that Scotland can lack at times, otherwise I think we would have even considered moving there. Loving the range of the diary its all about variety. My brother would be able to go on at length about the trains as he is still a train spotter despite having been a train driver for many years (you would think he would get bored!).

Congrats on the cashes

[mondatoo]

Congratulations 

[The Wycher]

Just fully caught up (work does get in the way at times) so congratulations, and not just on seeing Pelicans.

[Ironside]

congratulations

[edgascoigne]

Wonderful news!!

Congratulations to you both.

[Tractor]

Congratulations 

[doubleup]

Congrats to both of you!