Friday, August l9, 2011 Minneapolis, MN

It's a beautiful day and we are off to play tennis.  How exciting for me as I've only played once with Susie in Estevan since April.  I was a bit nervous playing w/Tom (#1 Men's Tennis at Mesa Regal) and his friend, George, who is equally as good.  But, what the heck - all in fun - right????

Kristie and I had fun playing w/the guys.  Had some good shots and, of course, missed some.  With their powerful serves, I just held my racquet for dear life.  We played three sets and Tom and I won in a tiebreaker.  Always fun to win.  This was the first time I played on a clay court.  Took me a while to get use to a slower court but according to Tom, better on the knees.

After tennis, Lynn and Tom invited us over to their house for brunch.  Lynn, as always, set a beautiful table and served a wonderful meal.  Thanks Lynn.



Tom, Lynn and Bruce

When we returned back to our campground, we had to close up our RV and move it over a couple sites as our site was rented out to someone else.  We thought we would have to move it to a site w/o power and water, but there was a cancellation so we were happy about that.  Lynn called later and asked if we wanted to do something together in the evening.  They came over about 5 p.m.  We sat out, had drinks and munchies and decided to go to the Casino for dinner.  On our walk, we noticed all these beautiful flowers outlining the road.  

A close up shot of the flowers.  Had to be quite a job planting all these flower beds.  Lovely aren't they?

Being a Casino owned by the Indian's, there was a statue of an Indian and his horse.



Inside the Casino - lot of red.

After dinner and dropping a couple dollars on the slots, we returned to the RV and played Black Queen, a card came.  We started playing this game in Mesa. A lot of fun.  Unfortunately, the guys beat Lynn and I three straight games.  We were definitely the "Loser's".

 

After they went home, Bruce went outside and noticed the light show.  The Casino has these lights showing up toward the sky - looks like a Tee Pee; however, tonight with the clouds being low, the ends of the light were very noticeable in a circle. See pictures below.  Really cool!!




Lights in the shape of a Tee Pee

 

It is now raining, but we had a beautiful sunny day and had a lot of fun w/our friends.  Bruce isn't happy because he washed the RV this afternoon - never fails.  Have to get to bed as we are getting up early to have breakfast with cousin's Sheila and Mark.  Good Night!!