March 27-30, 2023 Shoshone, California to Las Vegas, Nevada

 60 degrees and sunny. 

John spent the day shingling Judy's shed. Judy was so pleased she bought John dinner tonight at the Crowbar. Judy D and I got to go along. Judy is holding John's chocolate cake which he shared with us. 

Sunset from the Crowbar over the Charles Brown General store. The only store in Shoshone. 70 and sunny in Las Vegas. We are here for my glass convention and  classes. We are at the South Point Casino. This is our room and our view. I asked the lady at check-in for a view of the west and the pool. We got the pool, but are facing south. Guess we are in the west wing. 

We ate in the Italian restaurant here in the casino tonight. We got a free bottle of wine with the coupons they gave us. John had osso buco, which is something a character in books that read always had. Wanted to see what it was. Food was ok. I went to the casino and immediately lost $20, so gave up and left. Examples of what we are to learn in the Mastering on-edge. 

Examples of what we are to learn in the Mastering on-edge. The instructor Alysa Phiel doing a demo.

 My piece so far. A little busy, but I used all the techniques we learned. This is before firing and the back, the front side is down. I can square it up after firing too. Some of the masterpieces the other students made. 

The classroom. It was cloudy, windy and rainy. Lots of clouds for a nice sunset over the casino.

Sunset.

 The casino as we passed through. Libby Lieberman doing a demo of Embellished Wire Wrapping.

Examples of embellished wire wrapping. The last one is the one I made in the class. Examples for nus in  Fun with UV Resin class. The bottom 3 are the ones I made. 

One of the 3 arenas for the horses. And the Saloon by the arenas. 

We went to the bowling alley to order a pizza for dinner. Best place to eat, no lines and the best prices. 

They have 4 bowling alleys for tournaments.  A vending machine with bowling sox.

John enjoying our pizza dinner in our room. We almost missed sunset, but most of it was behind the building. 

I stopped at the slots and lost $19.71. I quit when I had 29 cents left. The Gunslingers are here. I wonder if they are a bowling team, they don't look like cowboys.