Here's What's Been Happening Lately

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Tried to catch the Super Moon
But it was cloudy here!

Where have all the blog entries gone? Well ... I was taking a break.  Busy times none the less.  Not long after I got back in Las Vegas we spent almost five days at the Texas Station Casino attending Nevada's Order of the Eastern Star Grand Chapter Session.  I helped with registration checking in visitors from all over the country and Canada.  Dan helped with the initial conference set-up and then he helped our friend Becky with the audio-visual presentations.  Hard to believe just a year ago we were visiting Nevada's Grand Chapter for the first time, not knowing a soul there.  Now we are members of Sunrise Chapter in Henderson, helping out at this year's Grand Chapter and already on the books to help out in Carson City next year.  We value our Eastern Star family both here and in Vermont.

Worthy Matron Patty and Worthy Patron Mike
of Sunrise Chapter

Grand Chaplain Marilyn and escort/daughter
Worthy Matron elect Peggy

Our first Star meeting back at our chapter after the summer break ended with a little excitement.  A helicopter had to make an emergency landing in the chapter parking lot. Luckily it was nothing serious.

Sunrise Chapter also had a nice family picnic a couple of Sundays ago, hosted by the Worthy Matron and Worthy Patron. We had somewhere close to 50 people in attendance.  Las Vegas and Henderson have beautiful parks spread though-out the area.  

Dan was lucky again and we spent an afternoon and an evening being entertained by Naturally 7, an A Capella group from New York. You can't be in the band unless you can sing and make your voice sound like some kind of musical instrument! They were amazing.

As soon as Grand Chapter was over my cousins stopped in for a visit.  We had a great time with Todd and Tali.

 We took a trip down the Strip. We hadn't been to the Flamingo before. Look out!

 Photo opps everywhere!

 We got lost in Caesar's Palace! We just didn't know it at the time!

A little bit of a break for spa time.

A trip to Pahrump to the annual grape stomp festival and a stop at China Ranch Date farm rounded out their visit with us.

I am surely keeping busy these days. Swimming with a group of friends every morning, fitness classes at the local Las Vegas community center and hikes with the Newcomers Club. At the end of September the hiking group went to Mt Charleston for a nice day hike.  My first hike since the knee repair. Beautiful day,

There is a nice coffee shop a short drive away in a shopping center designed to look like an Italian village called Tivoli. I stop in for a little me time once in a while.

Book club has started up again. Last week we met to discuss the Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho. Interesting discussion about good vs evil. Our next book is "Go Set a Watchman" by Harper Lee. I watched "To Kill a Mockingbird" over the weekend to refresh my memory. 

We just had a busy weekend but I think I will write about that in my next blog post.  

Have a good week.  It's still ... All About the Journey.

Love Nancy and Dan.