Staying in Vegas

We're staying in Vegas for a while. Almost sounds like the commercial "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas". We've been through Vegas many times, usually just stopping off to eat, not gamble.

We arrived at the Thousand Trails park and knew from the reservation system that it would be full, or almost full. We're able to make reservations 120 days in advance so we had no doubt about getting a camping site, but figured we'd have to take whatever was available. The friendly staff greeted us and assigned our site. After filling up on propane we parked the motorhome tightly between our new neighbors. I do mean tightly! After getting set up we took a walk around the park and I made a mental note of the departure dates on the rigs. I found a couple nicer sites and told Rick we probably would move to a bigger, more open site when possible. This TT park is like the Palm Springs park in that the sites are tight and it's a place to park while you explore the area. We asked the TT guard if we could move to the site at the end of the row with the big shade tree and green grass on Saturday when they moved out. The row we were in was clastrophobic and I could practically reach out the window and shake hands with the neighbors.

We got the inside scoop on dining from the locals in the campground and decided to go out for a seafood buffet Friday night. There were lots to choose from, but we decided to go to the Main Street Station ($16) in the north part of the Strip. We walked around Fremont Street, but it was afternoon so there was no light show. We will go back to see it and some of the other casinos lit up at night. Soon after dinner opened at 4 PM we were having our fill of snow crab legs. And a little shrimp, but mostly the crab. The Deadliest Catch fleet will need to go back out and replenish the crab supply in Vegas.