The "It's Always Something..But It's OK", edition.

Good Tuesday morning!  The city is prepping for a presidential candidate debate. On Sunday we went to Fogo de Chao..because Dad.  Lol. Anyway. The restaurant is on Flamingo Road but we go there via the back way. Like a secret street and an entire office park with a very exclusive  condo area and a hotel. As we passed the hotel I noticed a very large bus. It was the CSPAN bus. At a nice hotel. Off the strip. About a mile or so from the debate locale, The Thomas and Mack arena. If you've ever flown into Las Vegas and stayed on or anywhere near the strip, you've passed by the Arena. Let's just the traffic and road closures on Wednesday should be impressive. Also. We live about 2 miles north of the arena. What's going to happen is the main street closest to us will have more traffic than usual. Also the freeway will experience intermittent closures. 

So. Last Tuesday I mentioned that I fell and skinned my knee. How at the end of my session with the trainer felt really good and how I was strutting on the way to the door. And how I twisted my ankle and dove and slid on the floor. And how my skinned knee outdid any skinned knee I got as a kid. Lol. Well it's healing and stinging and healing. The routine is cleaning it, neosporine it and bandage it when I go out. And letting it air out when I'm home. And the sucker is stiff. Arghhhh!!  Right on the kneecap!  No swimming this week, but I'll go back to the trainer. Just no strutting out the door!  Lol. 

I passed on deep water fitness, but I did go and watched. It made me tired just watching them.  That should have been me in the pool!  It was a constant move day. Literally one hour of movement nonstop. Our instructor is a (pint sized) beast!  Lol. With a LOUD voice. Can hear her from the locker room. I plan on being back in the water next week. 

Finally the umpteenth visit to Fogo de Chao. My dad is addicted to Brazil steak houses. Lol. He won some $$ at the casino and announced that our Sunday brunch would be the steakhouse. I wasn't looking forward to it. Well. You can't get enough picanha..or steak ancho. Ask for horseradish and chimichurri. And I got Brazilian ginger ale. The buffet had fresh fruit so that was desert. Big. Fat. Strawberries.  And dad claimed he owes Shawn a visit to Fogo whe she comes out here for the holidays. We've been so many times I've lost track. And the staff remembers us. :-/  Oh well. My blood work indicates I need more protein and my dietician mentions it every month. 

That's it for today. We're still wearing sandals. Brian still wearing shorts. The temps are settled in the low 80s at the moment, but it will get ... Chilly. Photo of road closures for what it's worth. 

Brian in the pool. And the map of the street closures for the debate.