Day family newsletter - Sept. 2010

October 2, 2010

NEWS FROM THE DAYS:

Linda and I decided to celebrate our 43rd anniversary in Las Vegas this year and had a wonderful 4 day/3 night trip. We stayed at Treasure Island, and thoroughly enjoyed seeing sights, swimming, relaxing and catching two shows. First we saw The Price is Right – a recreation of the TV show – lots of fun. Then we were accosted by a couple of marketing people for Wyndham Hotels selling time shares at their resorts world wide. We finally decided to suffer thru 3 hours of pressure selling in exchange for tickets to see Cher at Caesars Palace (tickets valued at $150 each). We didn’t buy any time shares, but sure did enjoy seeing Cher! We also stopped by a hotel across the street and saw our niece Jamie on Linda’s side of the family who works at the Toby Keith Bar & Grill. Took a nice gondola ride at the Venetian too.

Jury duty called me for the first time in my life. I arrived bright and early looking forward to the experience, but all three trials scheduled settled right before going to court that morning. The judge thanked us all for our time and excused us.

Linda and I both experienced some car problems, but now everything is fixed and running OK again. We attended Kaylee’s (Debbie’s daughter) 5th birthday at a place called Bounce Up. All the kids had fun playing on blow up slides and play things for an hour before we sat down and had pizza, cake and ice cream. Fun! We met for dinner at a neat place we had never been to before – Bayous – with some friends. We also went to dinner one evening with Linda’s brother Steve and his girlfriend – a good time. And Stephanie had a very nice birthday celebration at a local restaurant she likes. We enjoyed helping her celebrate! And Wiggins had a nice birthday celebration that we missed because we were in Las Vegas at the time.

Linda and I took almost a week to stay in our condo in St. George. We thoroughly enjoyed seeing a couple of plays – Greater Tuna (in Cedar City) – and Crazy for You (Tuachan in St. George). Playing some golf, swimming, a quick trip to Mesquitte, Nevada for dinner, bingo and some gambling rounded out our stay. Linda is in the middle of reading the True Blood books, and finished the 3rd of 8 books while there. I finished reading Religions of the World, and started The Idiot. I also enjoyed reading everyone’s bio from the Jannson reunion that Shelley sent. Thanks. Stephanie was able to use our tickets to Pioneer Theatre with a friend while we were in St. George.

We finished up the month spending two nights at Wendover, Nevada relaxing, swimming and, well, donating a little to the cause. But we did listen to most of the Saturday afternoon session of LDS conference on the way home. It seemed to tie in perfectly to some of the talks about the struggle between good and evil……

Speaking of evil, it was interesting – at least to me – that Sean Hannity’s radio talk show left KSL Oct. 1st. It seems Hannity’s often-divisive tone was contradictory to KSL’s new mission statement which emphasizes “integrity and civility”.

Katie is feeling fine and looking forward to the birth of Sophie (not sure of the spelling yet). Debbie’s city of Herriman was subjected to a wildfire started by the National Guard doing some training on the other side of the mountain. Three homes burned and hundreds were evacuated for several days. Debbie’s home was about 6 blocks away and safe, but they got lots of smoke.

And that’s the news from the Days. Tom & Linda