Hey Katie,

I know I've been away from the BB a lot - between work and my 7 year old son's activities, I don't have much time for anything - not even sleep...

Yet I am very proud of my son: A short story about our last trip to Vegas:

Vegas was fun - I got sick while there (yes the let down from work caught up with me...), yet still in all it was great! Not too crowded - yet there were a lot of people, the News indicated approx 250,000 (or 94% occupancy at all the Hotel/Casinos) - amazing!!!
We stayed at Treasure Island - this is the first time there for us, and we really liked it!!! (Yes, I picked up five $10 PT from Treasure Island, and four are available for trade...)
We also enjoyed going to the other casinos (for me to do chipping and playing for Premium Tokens). I ended up getting 40!!! 17 for my collection, and 23 traders... It started at the Airport, as when we landed I put $20 in, and got a single, then a triple!!! Not too bad - getting four premium tokens for $20, as our previous trip in August, I put $40 in - and only got one out...

We also went to Rio to view the "Masquerade show in the sky" on Thursday, Friday and Saturday - as my son really likes to catch the strands of beads!!! He ended up with 18 for the three days!!! On Friday, when we were leaving after the show, my wife saw that a family with four little girls (ages 2-6), the three oldest had one strand each - so we talked to my son, and asked him if he would like to give one of his strands of beads to the little girl that didn't have any - he jumped up and down and flapped his arms (yes he does this when he gets excited - must be from the wife's side of the family - as it ISN'T from mine...), and indicated that he would like to share with her. My wife took over a strand of beads and put it on the little girl - the smile on her face was priceless!!! Her parents were happy/surprised as well... It made all of us really happy to see that the little 2 year old was so happy...

Regards,

Dick