Taxi picked us up this morning and took us to Tucson Airport for our flight to Las Vagas. The flight took about an hour and we had to put our phones back an hour on arrival. We picked up a cab to take us to the New York New York Hotel in Las Vagas. We couldn't believe our eyes when we arrived. The hotel is a replica of various famous places in New York. The reception floor is also the casino with various eating places,pubs, shops and swimming pool. There are 17 f...

Nick got the hang of the waffle machine this morning so we all had waffles for breakfast! We sorted our cases for tomorrow when we fly to Las Vagas,we are leaving our main luggage at the hotel in Tucson as we are returning on Thursday. We skyped the family was good to see them all. It was a beautiful hot sunny day so we went to the pool and had a swim and a lay in the hot tub. After this activity we lazed on the sun beds reading, it was bliss. Poor June has the c...

Off on another trip this time to the Desert Museum. On the way Alan got the driver to stop at a place called Gateway in the Desert it is a viewing place surrounded by mountains looking across the Desert it was beautiful with a forest of cacti and hiking trails leading up into the mountains. We arrived at the Museum what a place interesting plants wild animals, reptiles, birds, and fish. We went into the reptile house and saw so many different snakes including a f...

Bed nice and comfy breakfast fine but not as good as at the ranch no beautiful berries! Claire feeling better this morning and Alan much improved. The mini bus picked us up at 10am to take us to Tucson Rodeo! What an exciting day the Rodeo was amazing. Cowboys trying to ride enormous Bulls and fabulous wild horses it was awesome! Cowgirls in beautiful glittery blue costumes doing routines on their horses. Cowgirls and Cowboys lasooing steers and tiring them up...

Woke early packed up ready for vacating our rooms at 12noon. Claire and I were going on a breakfast walk with a chap called Rick who was going to tell us some of the history and folklore of the ranch. The others were all going on a breakfast ride. We had one other walker with us a Belgium gentleman who was at the ranch for a conference. The walk was very interesting especially the Indian tale of the creation. We arrived at the breakfast spot at the same time as...