Thanksgiving In Las Vegas, Fremont Street

We had a great Thanksgiving meal at Jo and Lons'. The following are some of the pictures from a great meal!

Here's the table.


Table for six included Floyd and Peggy.


Sue (Her husband was busy with the camera).


Jo

Lon

Cabbage Rolls

Home made buns and Candy's Lefse

Stuffing

Turkey and freshly made potato sausage

Mashed potatoes

Sweet Potatoes

Seems like a lot of food for six people. As you can see it was. We've been working on leftovers last night, noon today and also this afternoon. We are so lucky to celebrate with Jo & Lon, Peggy and Floyd.


Downtown Las Vegas

This morning we went to downtown Las Vegas (Fremont Street). Lon had a few things to do at the Golden Gate Casino and Mary Jo had a few things to do at Caesar's Palace. So here are a few pictures from this morning.


This is just a random shot looking into a casino from Fremont street - no doors. I don't think you could do this in Minnesota now.

A little further down Fremont street is the venerable, "Binions".

The Golden Nugget has just added a huge salt water aquarium.

This casino is right on the corner of Fremont and Main.

Some years ago we would stay at the Plaza. It's located on the northwest end of Fremont.

If I turn 180 degrees from the previous picture, you get this one looking east southeast down Fremont. This day and time of day as well as this week is a very quiet time. It is normally much busier that what this pictures shows. The cage on the right is where two guys on motorcycles drive around on the inside of the sphere. They only run into each other occasionally.

This in front of the Golden Gate Casino on the corner of Fremont and Main. This is where Lon works. The casino is known for it's shrimp coctail. Since 1959 they have served over 30 million of these.

We are enjoying every day out here. Going for walks, a little gambling, went out for breakfast this morning, playing cards and watching football.

Hope you are all doing well.

Bob & Sue

Lefse Saturday

Three generations had a fun day making lefse, donuts, sampling and visiting.

Here are some pics:

Hanna with her own apron.


Caleb ready to test his lefse flipping skills. Paige is in the background.


This is the lefse flipping team; Caleb, Paige, and Kyla


This is the first day we saw Kyla with her first pair of glasses.

Here's Sue with the lastest addition to the third generation of lefse flippers, Leah (John & Heather) and Cece (Jeff and Bridget)

Chris and Katie

Caleb and Kyla - focused on flipping

Paige and Caleb

Donuts!

Katie (left side) and Heather rolling out the donut dough.

Sue is in the background. You can see the donuts cooking in lard. It does kinda stink up the house. On the near side of the picture you can see where the donuts were placed on a grocery bag to pull of some of the lard.

The finished product

What a fun day. I think everyone had a chance to sample the products. We made the lefse with yellow potatoes. They were very tender and very moist. It's unclear they passed the test of the resident lefse purists.

Deer Season 2009

Pretty unusual season with the warmest and dryest weather in years. We were also lucky to have Paige with us this year. Paige turned 11 while she was up north. This year three of the stands have heaters. Two have stairs and Jeff's stand is new.


Here's a picture of Chris with his deer. When you see him you should ask him to tell his story.


Paige and Matt with Matt's deer. The picture was taken looking down from Matt's stand. Yup, they are in blaze orange T-shirts.



Matt has an indoor/outdoor thermometer in his stand. It was pretty warm.


Paige, Matt, Chris, John, and Jeff

There were a total of 16 hunters out on Saturday.

Every Saturday during deer season there is some sort of dinner in town. This year it is in the old city hall. Here are John, Matt, and Paige.

Chris

Sue with Cece in her Camo outfit.

Jeff with John in the background

A great weekend!

Bob

Detective John

We are excited about John's promotion to Detective in the Airport's Criminal Investigations group. This job will start in December. Here we are at the Olive Garden in Roseville this past Sunday celebrating this event.


In preparation for this new role, Jeff and Bridget gave John this pipe for image clarification purposes.


Here's John, Heather, and Lea.


You can see most of our family at this dinner.


Paige and Kyla



Looks like Hannah is making a sort of celebration cake using her chicken strips and crayons.

Just a short video clip.

It felt good for our family to get out to dinner.

Congratulations John!