The Agnew Family aboard the "Dog House"

Good-bye Springdale, Utah...... Hello Las Vegas, Nevada. The drive to Vegas was uneventful but we did pass through some nice mountains and canyons and a bit of desert. As soon as you cross the border into Nevada there is a little cluster of casinos but it doesn’t take long till you are driving through desert again. Our plan was to find a Wal-Mart, drop the trailers, drive around to RV parks checking them out, then pick one and move in. As we are staying in Vegas for a month we wanted something nice and not too expensive. As there are over 12 Wal-Marts in Vegas we picked one at the south end of the city as a lot of the RV parks were in the south. As soon as we arrived we headed to a fast food restaurant to grab a bite to eat, after that Margaret, the dogs and I found a nice shady piece of curb and sat with the telephone and the campground directory while the guys unhitched the trailers. Ooooops the emergency brake wire for the trailers was pulled .... some smart ass must have decided to have a little fun — good thing we caught it before we drove off with the trailers. Margaret and I didn’t have a lot of luck finding trailer parks with vacancies for a month long stay .... out of about 20 parks we found 3 (one of them a little further away than we wanted to be) with availability. We hitched the trailers back up and headed to the RV park with the hot tub. Just as we were given the paper work to fill in, another woman in the office said “we’re not accepting dogs right now”. Now that stopped us in our tracks!!! Luckily, the manager was in the office and after giving us the lecture on how dogs and their owners are to behave and saying “I can kick you out as easily as I’m letting you stay”, he said we could stay. It’s pretty standard that electricity is extra with monthly sites so we weren’t surprised with that but we were surprised when they said we needed to make arrangements directly with Nevada Power. We also had to get a spot for one night as we weren’t allowed on the monthly site till the electricity was hooked up. Of course Nevada Power wouldn’t accept us over the telephone as we are Canadian without US social security numbers, so we had to drive down to their office — which was in downtown Vegas. Now that was a fun half hour driving through “rush hour” traffic. We watched as a car ran a stop sign in front of Colin and then the guy honked his horn at Colin. I’m certainly not looking forward to driving here. When Ed finally got to the counter it was very simple signing up for power .... didn’t even need to give a deposit.

We decided that we needed to go out for dinner and there were a couple of casinos just down the road from us ..... there’s a casino just down the road from everything in Vegas. We picked one and went in to check their buffet out — $6.99 and it looked good. The waitress informed us that if you signed up for the players club you would get a coupon that gave you one free dinner when you purchased second dinner. That peeked Colin and Ed’s interested, so guess who are members of the players club now! First night at a casino and we didn’t even gamble a quarter!