Saturday rolled up way too soon to suit me. I would just as soon have stayed in Reno for another week or two.
But life calls, so Lee and I bagged up our stuff and headed for the airport.
By this time I had long since lost the $10,000 in cash the Casino had given me, but I still had $18,000 of the big win on the $5 slot machine. I asked Lee how she was doing, she had the whole $10,000 left and a couple of hundred extra.
Cool! Combine that with the check I had in my wallet and we were fat city, a cool 1.6 Million plus. Sure, it was going to get spread out over 25 years, I could deal with that....
Lee and I walked along hand in hand, we got to the area where they check the bags and things. It really is a little unnerving to see big people standing there with machine guns slung over their shoulders...This is America, but I understand..
I went right through, Lee got a buzzer. Dang, that is always a pain in the butt. now they would check out everything she had. Nothing for me to do but step forward and stand there and wait.
They took Lee into a little booth, and checked her over. The lady checking her was probably surprised to lift her dress and find nothing underneath, Lee no longer owns or wears underwear..
She was in there a good 10 minutes, as the lady poked and probed and checked her out. I had to concede Lee looked hot, hell, she is 45 and as nasty looking as a 45 year old woman in shape can look!
I just stood there, finally, they let her through. I asked her what set off the machine, she told me the clips in her shoes. They had gone right through in Portland on the way down, I thought that was odd.
We finally got our boarding passes, she was #4, I was #5, that was cool, it meant we got our pick of seats. We always choose the emergency row, I sit facing backwards, she sits across from me. That works good, I have long legs, she has short legs, we end up with lots of room!
We sat down and waited while the Southwest Airlines plane filled up.