Wednesday 12 December 2007
Awake: 7:28am Temp 36 sleep 7+48 sunny overnight @ Las Vegas, Nevada.
Call & talk with Dick about today’s plans; they are going Christmas shopping this morning & would like us to meet them for lunch @ one of their favorite German Café’s.
“We will be grocery shopping & we will keep our cell phone ready when you call,” I tell him.
K & I leave mid morning & make Trader Joe’s our 1st stop. Next, Costco where we spend more time than we should have….only because they have many things from many parts of the world to explore; then Wal-Mart, where we speed up, move out & head back to the campground to store our perishables. En route, Dick calls: they have arrived @ the Café & will wait for us to join them.
Fortunately for us, D & C are calm & patient people as it took much longer than we expected for us to return to the bus, unload & store the goodies, then race back across town to join them for lunch.
Dick says he slowly drank (2) beers while Christine ordered her meal & then ate. We, of course, apologized & ordered a premium Bavaricum Weihenstephaner Hefeweisser dark beer to share. The beer was ok but the meal was utterly fantastic. We each had our own meal; I had sauerbraten & Kathy had wiener schnitzel, but in retrospect, we should have shared just one of the meals as each was a good size. The “Café Heidelberg” has been selected (7) yrs in a row now for outstanding food & service.
From here, Kathy & I do some touring by car en route back to the campground; we will join C & D again tomorrow.
No cooking for Kathy tonight nor dishes for me to clean & that’s nice.
We watch the nat’l news & then record the O’Reilly factor while watching a DVR movie: “Night Nurse” with Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable, etc. Excellent hard-bitten tale of nurse (Stanwyck) who can’t ignore strange goings-on in home where she works; Blondell adds zingy support & one of Gables’s most impressive early appearances which is still potent today. 1931. We both enjoyed this film, especially nurse Kathy who critiqued many of the medical practices.
Then we zoom thru watching the O’Reilly Factor by not having to watch the commercials.
Lights out: 11:27pm
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