Autum Fun in October

 Saturday, October 1, 2021

What better way to start off October than a trip to the Brumwell's Flea Market with Brandon. We were in search of Skylanders.  Found one.

Afterward, we found a park nearby and hiked a small trail down to the river and around, back to our car.  

What a great day to spend with Brandon.

Thursday, October 7, 2021

Looking for adventure today.  We drove to Rocks State Park and hiked a short trail to the King and Queen Seat.  The local legend is that our local Susquehannock tribes would meet up there and their king and queen would take their place on these rocks in ceremony.

This has also long been a destination for tourists.  There were many very old carvings of dates and names on the rocks.

Of course, all this activity made us thirsty, so we went to a local brewery to test their brews.  Slate Farm Brewery in Whiteford, Maryland.

Saturday, October 9, 2021

Today is our annual IBEW Retired Members Crab Feast.  It is held at the Knights of Columbus outdoor pavilion.

Amy , Kam and Me

Thursday, October 14, 2021

A  drive through the Thurmont, MD area made fall come alive.

Friday, October 15, 2021

Lunch at Parkside Deli with two of our favorite people.  Kam and Jerry Lozupne.  We were too busy talking and eating to take a picture.  My bad.

Saturday, October 16, 2021

This turned out to be one of the most fun times.  We visited the Montgomery County Agricultural History Farm for a Harvest Day festival.  Brandon went with us.  We saw animals, bought some handmade items,  soap making, and blacksmithing.  We watched an old sawmill at work and saw many antique farm machines.  Some were being demonstrated.  We went on a hayride. We even show an old-school show. But the most fun thing we did was create Hank.  What fun we had trying to build this giant scarecrow.

Vegas, Hersey, Pilgrim, Local Cruisin"

 Tuesday, September 7 - Saturday, September 11, 2021

Finally, our Covid-canceled trip to Las Vegas has been rescheduled.  Things have really changed in Vegas for us.  No more Circus Circus.  It has been sold,  so there are no more comps for us.  We are staying at Bally's this time.  The last time we stayed here was at a Moose Convention years ago.

We traveled with our friends, Mary Cawley, Carol Robertson, Pat Robertson, Carol's friend Walter and of course, Bruce and I.  Met up with Pat's son Billy and Mary's son Chris.

Las Vegas just wasn't what it used to be for us.  We enjoyed having our room comped at Circus Circus and knew the dealers and Pit bosses.  We were always welcomed back.  Now we are paying a lot more for a room and the wonderful resort fee (which gives us nothing).  Everything is so expensive now.  A bottle of water can cost you $5.  Our first meal was a burger at Johnny Rockets at Bally's, which cost a fortune.  A "nice" breakfast in Paris cost us over $80.  Even gambling is more expensive.  No more $5 three-card poker tables and most slot machines are 75 cents and above.

It was very hot there in September so we did most of our walking through the casinos.  This was actually a good thing because the streets were filthy and the homeless and drunks were laying everywhere. We also had to Urber even to and from the airport.  No more Bell Shuttles.

We still did some cool things though.  We had our traditional breakfast at the "Egg and I with the gang.

We visited the new Resorts World Casino.  It was nice but the build-up for it left a bit to be desired.

We spent some time at the Linq and The Venetian.

The Linq

Outside of the Venetian

Inside The Venetian

The coolest thing we did was go to the new Aera 15.  We went to Omega Mart. This is a production by Meow Wolf.  This was a bit mind-blowing.

The entrance to Aera 15.  There are a number of exhibits here.

The Mart is a parody of a grocery store.  Of course, nothing is for sale, but the puns are incredible.  You can spend quite a long time searching the shelves of this grocery store.

 After you are done with shopping, there are numerous ways to enter the behind-the-scenes of the exhibit.  Such as entering through a beer cooler.  What is back there is very hard to describe.  You can participate in a mystery and try to find clues.  There are slides to take you from one floor to another doors and hallways that take you somewhere.  Interactive things that may do any number of things. We spent all afternoon there and only left because we ran out of energy.

Just a few rooms

I was totally overwhelmed and didn't do justice to the pictures I could have taken.

We got back home safe and sound and ready to explore locally.

Thursday, September 16, 2021

Time for the Hershey RV Show.  I guess everyone is fed up with the Covid nonsense because we have never seen so many people in line to get into this show.  Unfortunately, the line was the most notable thing for us this year.  RV shows just don't hold the fascination they use to for us.

Saturday, September 18, 2021

We had the pleasure to go to the Moose and celebrate Emmett Bisnett's Pilgrim Ceremony,  Although we are not very active in the Moose lately it was great to help Emmett celebrate.

Sunday, September 26, 2021rk.

Spent the day exploring Maryland.  We started out at Chatman State Park, then to Piscataway Park. We walked down to the Potomac from the backyard of Mt. Aventine. That was quite a hill to climb back up.

Thursday, September 30, 2021

Ended the month with our sweet Victoria and our sweet Jax.  Bruce is sweet too!

Odds & Ends to Finish August

 Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Babysitting Victoria.

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Volunteering at the IBEW Hall for mailing of Raffel Tickets to support the Retired Members Medical Equipment mission.

Sunday, August 29, 2021

Victoria visiting with Great Grandpops.

Monday, August 30, 2021

Went for a walk at Rock Creek.  Checking out the progress of the Purple line.

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Victoria visiting Grandpops.

Brumwell's Flea Market

Saturday, August 21, 2021

Back in Maryland.  Went to Brumwell's Flea Market.  Found a key guy there who replaced the battery in the Rogue key fob.  Came across a guy selling Skylanders.  I knew Brandon would go crazy if he were here so I texted him some pictures and bought some per his instructions.

Had a really nice breakfast here at Cookies.