Did you miss me? Did ya?
Well, I did everything I wanted to do, and saw all the sights I wanted to see. In and out of all the sightseeing and the doings, there were plenty of traumatic happenings.
I got jet lag for the first time ever, and for five and a half days, I walked around in a state of full zombie-ness. And, also, from the second I stepped off the plane in Los Angeles, I was on-and-off deaf in one ear.
On my last morning in Vegas, I woke up to complete deafness in that ear. The deafness still hasn't let up. I am going to see the pharmacist today. But everyone in Vegas was nice about it. I had so many suggestions from strangers as to what to do to hear properly. A bus driver handed me his smart phone (while he was driving) - he had found a list of how to get rid of temporary deafness and wanted me to read it. First on the bullet-list was "jump up and down".
Then I had a blocked nose and a sore throat for four days until I turned my hotel room's air conditioning off at night.
I got bitten by a donkey...... (Bet you weren't expecting that??) :
I was in the small western town street of Oatman, out of the Las Vegas area. The town has loads of wild donkeys roaming the street, only we are not allowed to call them donkeys - they are burros.
"They're perfectly safe," said our group's guide. "You can pet them, and love them, and feed them." Blocks of alphalpha could be bought. We were not to feed them carrots. Carrots brought out large cancer lumps on the donkeys'-sorry-burros' necks.
I petted a few donkey-burros, then looked for a rubbish bin to throw away the remnants of the picnic lunch provided by the tour company. A donkey stalked up to me, staring intently at the square plastic container of left-overs in my hand.
"Shoo! Shoo!" I backed away, scared.
That donkey-burro stalked me. I turned left. He turned left. I turned right. He turned right. He began to nudge me. There was a vicious look in his eyes.
I was standing beside a car and the occupants hurriedly opened a door, trying to put the door up between me and the donkey-burro. The donkey just swerved around it.
I stumbled backward up onto the boardwalk. It followed. I was backed up against a shop window.
And the burro bit my arm!!! With both sets of teeth. Blood was drawn.
I dropped the lunch box and ran away, crying like a seven year old.
I hope I don't get rabies. Or tetanus. Or burro-breath. If I turn into a a were-burro at the next full moon, I will be so distressed.....
above: a baby.
Above: approaching Oatman, a friendly donkey (I didn't know about them being burros then), happy to see us, put his head in the car window, in greeting.. I should have paid more attention for future reference.
above. a happy stranger surrounded by friendly burros. I don't know what happened to her later. I fled the scene after taking this photograph. (Oh, and quite a few burros were pregnant.)
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Another thrilling What I Did On My Vegas Holiday coming up soon. I promise no more donkeys-er-I-mean-burros. This time the horrifying story will be about ... horses!
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