Days End

My vacation with Pat is at its end.  We has a great time here in Reno, NV.  The only thing that would have made it better would have been if our sister, Denise, could have made it.  We ate good food.  We gambled and laughed about the odds.  Sometimes he won and sometimes I won, but we both lost.  And neither one of us left much money at the casinos.  He bought brakes and I got a hair cut.  I got to spend an afternoon with a friend and her kids.  I still am shocked at people smoking next to me indoors.  I loved the feeling when I won the $26 on the penny slots.  I was more impressed when Pat won $80.  We talked of the future and the present and the past.  I love my brother and am so grateful to have had this time with him and thankful that Dave took on full time child care duties so I could do so. I love all the men in my life.   And now to go home.