Twice in Nine Months

We had a great trip to Vegas and it started with the absolute easiest trip to the airport.  Love the Reno Airport - super easy to get to, little to no traffic congestion, parked easily, trekked to the terminal, checked our bags and got boarding passes at the curb and viola!  At the gate and ready to go.  It makes traveling just so much easier vs. when we lived in Tracy and just getting to the airport was a total crap shoot.  Budgeting 2+ hours for what should be a 40 minutes drive has been eliminated!  We love that change so much!!

Vegas was loads of fun as always and I/we can't wait to go back.  We stayed at The Cosmopolitan and perhaps it's not really our favorite place to stay?  We were saying 'we'll do Bellagio next time'.  But on our last night there, a lady approached me at the slots and said "M., here's my card".  She was the VP of Slot Marketing for the casino and she promptly instructed me to have a very nice dinner that evening on the casino and to call her when we visit again so she can arrange our rooms.  (She offered to comp our room but we'd booked through Southwest Vacations [something we will never do again, by the way].  She offered to comp any room charges we'd made, too - but we hadn't been doing that].  We dined at Zuma and didn't scrimp on what we ordered - steak, lobster, sushi, drinks, dessert.  It was delicious! 

The next morning, as promised, the dinner bill had been comped and she also comped our daily resort fee, too - yay!  So now it looks like we'll do Cosmo again, most likely - getting a free room there would be great.  (Getting a free room mostly anywhere on the strip would be great).  The Cosmo is a bit of a younger crowd (which is totally fine) but it really gets loud and crowded at night.  But the room was SPECTACULAR - generous size with a nice seating area by the balcony and great views.  We were on the 44th floor!

We trekked home late Wednesday - cats super happy to see us while giving us a bit of attitude for having left them.  But they were totally fine and they readjust to their humans really well.

We had a lot of house stuff happening on Thursday - met the project foreman (FINALLY).  We had to talk about how to do the steps up and down from the house onto the back patio and front porch.  There will always be steps - and someday, if we have to, we can always do ramps.  (Hope we never have to do that!).  They delivered all the drywall so the garage and a lot of space inside the house is filled with drywall.  We also found out we can arrange to add concrete around the house and even extend the patio out a bit and we're definitely planning to do that because we're positive our builders charges for that work will be hugely less than a landscape company later.

That afternoon, I had a scratchy throat but that's not unusual for me, right?  But within a few hours, it morphed into a bad cough.  I still just thought 'normal sinus stuff'.  But Friday morning, that was clearly not the cause.  I made it through a horrible Friday but the minute I woke up on Saturday, I said 'I need medical care'.  Didn't even get dressed.  Just put on a coat over my PJ's and a beanie to hide the most horrendous bed head ever and we went to the Urgent Care center.  Type A Flu AGAIN - twice in 9 months!!  And yes, I had the shot!!

It's day five-ish today and I MIGHT actually put on clothes at some point...though we're cancelling all scheduled appointments.  The lighting appointment to finalize all our fixtures was scheduled for today at 1PM but the lady we're working with has serious health challenges happening - she just had major surgery - and there's no way I'm risking exposing her to the flu.  And I really don't feel up to driving to Reno.

Tamiflu is amazing - and this time, we only paid $15!!