Ridgeview is an ROD park so we get to stay there at no cost, except our yearly dues. It is just up the hill from the Colorado River and across the river from
Laughlin, Nevada, a town made up of about 10 casinos, a mall, and a few housing areas. It is kind of a mini
Las Vegas. The airport is so close to the park that when the planes go over we can almost recognize the people sitting in the seats!
We got to
Ridgeview the day after Mothers Day and there was a surprise there waiting for me! The kids all got together and got me a new Nikon camera! Now I have no excuses for not taking great
pictures!
Here is one of my first great pictures! This friendly little roadrunner started roosting in the tree between us and Ron & Alice. He came back several nights. We didn't know that roadrunners roost in trees at night.
There was also a family of quail that would visit us each day. This mama quail had at least 15 babies. They moved so fast that I couldn't count them all. What?! You can't see the babies! Let me zoom in a little. . .
. . . here are three of them close up. Alice saw them a couple of times when they came right down to the front of their RV, but she could never get the camera in time to take a
picture. We also saw a lot of
rabbits in the park and we were told there were rattle snakes seen. I think it is about time to start heading North when the snakes come to visit!
There is a "taxi" that will take you across the Colorado from Bullhead City to
Laughlin and the casinos. We took it a couple of times when we went to eat or just visit the other side. It was much nicer than trying to fight for a parking place at the casinos. I love being on the water for whatever the reason!
This is one of the oldest casinos in
Laughlin. It sits right on the waterfront and is built in the shape of a steamboat. It has added other sections for hotel rooms, but the casino is right in the steamboat part.
I haven't quite figured out how to take night pictures with my new camera yet, but this is the view we have from the park of
Laughlin.
Yes! This is home-made bread from scratch. I forgot how easy it is to make. I use a recipe for 6 loaves that I cut in half and make 3 loaves at a time. The first loaf we eat hot--the second loaf goes in the cupboard--and the third loaf I give away! It has been fun giving a loaf of warm, home-made bread to a neighbor
RVer or someone who just stops by to visit. The plant in the vase is a "Lucky Bamboo" plant is is growing ing water pearls. I got the water pearls at the fair in Cottonwood. They are so fun to use. You just have to cover them with water every couple of weeks and they fill with water again and this sustains the bamboo plant. They are very pretty.
I got this pattern for hats from a fellow
crafter at one of the parks. I am trying to learn to make them "cowboy up" on the brims. Some of them do pretty well.
The blue and orange one I made to show my sister Lorrie so she can make some Boise State hats to sell with her other Boise State things she crochets. Now I need to find homes for all of these other hats!
One day we were waiting down on the river to go on a boat tour and this mama bird was trying to feed her baby a lizard! There were two babies in this palm tree--one was still in the nest and one had fallen or jumped down to land several feet below. The mama would go back and forth trying to get this lizard into one of their mouths. She finally made it after several attempts at each one of them--and I got pictures of the whole thing happening. They were quite far up in this tall palm tree. Great camera!!
Terry, Ron, and Alice are getting aboard our tour boat.
We are having a great time. We sat outside on the back of the boat, but when the
guide's voice came over the speaker, we could hardly hear him because of the motor. . .
. . . so we moved inside for the rest of the trip. It was really interesting. It took about an hour and a half and we learned all about the dam just above
Laughlin and all about the building of the casinos. Terry and I had been on the tour a few years ago, but Ron and Alice never had. Alice gets a little nervous on water, but I think she enjoyed the trip and didn't even get sick.
We got to Ridgeview the day after Mothers Day and there was a surprise there waiting for me! The kids all got together and got me a new Nikon camera! Now I have no excuses for not taking great pictures!
Here is one of my first great pictures! This friendly little roadrunner started roosting in the tree between us and Ron & Alice. He came back several nights. We didn't know that roadrunners roost in trees at night.
There was also a family of quail that would visit us each day. This mama quail had at least 15 babies. They moved so fast that I couldn't count them all. What?! You can't see the babies! Let me zoom in a little. . .
. . . here are three of them close up. Alice saw them a couple of times when they came right down to the front of their RV, but she could never get the camera in time to take a picture. We also saw a lot of rabbits in the park and we were told there were rattle snakes seen. I think it is about time to start heading North when the snakes come to visit!
There is a "taxi" that will take you across the Colorado from Bullhead City to Laughlin and the casinos. We took it a couple of times when we went to eat or just visit the other side. It was much nicer than trying to fight for a parking place at the casinos. I love being on the water for whatever the reason!
This is one of the oldest casinos in Laughlin. It sits right on the waterfront and is built in the shape of a steamboat. It has added other sections for hotel rooms, but the casino is right in the steamboat part.
I haven't quite figured out how to take night pictures with my new camera yet, but this is the view we have from the park of Laughlin.
Yes! This is home-made bread from scratch. I forgot how easy it is to make. I use a recipe for 6 loaves that I cut in half and make 3 loaves at a time. The first loaf we eat hot--the second loaf goes in the cupboard--and the third loaf I give away! It has been fun giving a loaf of warm, home-made bread to a neighbor RVer or someone who just stops by to visit. The plant in the vase is a "Lucky Bamboo" plant is is growing ing water pearls. I got the water pearls at the fair in Cottonwood. They are so fun to use. You just have to cover them with water every couple of weeks and they fill with water again and this sustains the bamboo plant. They are very pretty.
I got this pattern for hats from a fellow crafter at one of the parks. I am trying to learn to make them "cowboy up" on the brims. Some of them do pretty well. 
One day we were waiting down on the river to go on a boat tour and this mama bird was trying to feed her baby a lizard! There were two babies in this palm tree--one was still in the nest and one had fallen or jumped down to land several feet below. The mama would go back and forth trying to get this lizard into one of their mouths. She finally made it after several attempts at each one of them--and I got pictures of the whole thing happening. They were quite far up in this tall palm tree. Great camera!!
Terry, Ron, and Alice are getting aboard our tour boat.
We are having a great time. We sat outside on the back of the boat, but when the guide's voice came over the speaker, we could hardly hear him because of the motor. . .
. . . so we moved inside for the rest of the trip. It was really interesting. It took about an hour and a half and we learned all about the dam just above Laughlin and all about the building of the casinos. Terry and I had been on the tour a few years ago, but Ron and Alice never had. Alice gets a little nervous on water, but I think she enjoyed the trip and didn't even get sick. 
No comments:
Post a Comment