My yearly Trip to the Bahamas

WooHoo, my yearly trip to the Bahamas is coming soon.  Already have the airline tickets just need to finalize the villa and start packing. I like to book my flights through American Express travel, because I can use my rewards points from my american express card for all or some of the costs. Price is almost always a couple of dollars within the price direct from airline.
One thing I'm glad of is that I waited a couple of weeks from when I originally priced airline tickets, because the price dropped about $50 a ticket so I jumped on them this time.
Haven't had a good "go away" vacation lately. Everything has been little day trips, so I'm looking forward to getting away and relaxing in the sun and sand.

Update
Villa is confirmed with the marina view. Countdown begins.
Club Landor, here we come. Now I know not everyone likes Club Landor and there are some maintainance fees that are high for owners, but the villa itself for a week in the Bahamas is perfect for me.

Places I've been so far.

I've been very fortunate to have a job that allowed me to do some traveling over the years. There isn't one of them that I didn't enjoy. Eight hours of work a day then rest of the time was for sightseeing, playing and relaxing. Below is a listing of places I've been to already, some were for work others for pleasure.

Work
San Francisco (4 times)
Chicago (5 times)
Seattle (Once)
Mobile (Once)
New Orleans (Twice)
Honolulu (Once)
Oklahoma City (Once)
Denver (Once)
Atlanta (3 Times)
New York (Twice for work, 3 Times personal)
Minneapolis (Once)
Orlando, Florida (Once)
Las Vegas (6 Times for work, at least 10 times personal)
Los Angeles, CA (Once)
Indianapolis, IN (Once)
Richmond, VA (Once)
Phoenix, AZ (Once, got to see football game from sidelines)

Personal
Paris, France (Once)
Paradise Island, Bahamas (7 Times)
Myrtle Beach, SC (3 Times)
Atlantic City, NJ (Too many to count)
Pennsylvania (Most of the state at different times, raised here)
Washington, DC area (My home of the last 27 years)
Naggs Head, NC
West Virginia (went camping there alot as a youngster)
Sandusky, OH (Cedar Point amusement park as a kid a couple times)
Baltimore
Charlotte, NC (Twice, went to NASCAR races)

Concerts this year

I'm a little behind again on posts, but we went to a couple of good concerts so far this year.

First was Rihanna in April at the Verizon center downtown DC. A little on the sexually suggestive side, but a good show. Sometimes the music was cranked up a little too loud making it hard to really hear the lyrics, but we had good time.

Next up was Bruno Mars also at the Verizon center in June. Great show, although I felt a little out of place cause it seemed our tickets were in the teeny bopper section. A lot of his fans were young teenage girls. He puts on a high energy show with influences of Michael Jackson and Motown era dance steps. I knew he played the piano but he also played drums and guitar very well. Was also pleasently surprised at how many of his songs I actually knew from the radio.

Soon to come is Jay Z and Justin Timberlake in August in Baltimore.

Fun trip to Maryland Live Casino

Hey All,
I need to get better with my posting, but a couple weeks ago me and the misses went to Maryland Live Casino in Arundel Mills, Maryland. MD has recently passed the legislation to allow live table games at their casinos, but won't be in place till spring.

I'm not a big fan of slots, but the misses is. They do have their own digital version of craps, roulette and blackjack but its not quite the same. So of course I'm anxiously waiting the live games start.

That being said I was pleasantly surprised to find a slot machine that I actually enjoyed this trip. It is a "Wheel of Fortune" 25 cent machine, with 2 sets of reels. 6 quarters is max bet that gets you max bonus chance also. The first set of 3 reels can give you the spin bonus feature and with that activated the 2nd set of 3 reels you can get bonus spins of another part of the wheel that are multipliers. You can get up to three of the multiplier spins with chances at 1X to 10X, total maximum of 31X multiplier (1X for the first reel spin and a possible 10X+10X+10X for the 2nd reel multiplier) of the wheel spin. I had always kinda like the "Wheel of Fortune" slot but this actually puts it into my definite play category. Even if you don't get the spin feature you still have two sets of reels to hit bars, cherries or the progressive wheel logo. I think the multiplier feature is a great, fun addition to this slot machine game.

All in all we got out of the house for a couple of hours, had a good time and best of all came home with more money than left with.

Talk Soon
Boom

What / Where Was Your Favorite Vacation?

I'm actually torn between 2 trips as to which was my favorite.
One was a company paid trip to Honolulu, Hawaii for 9 days.  The other was our 7 day trip to Paris, France.  Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed all my trips cause anytime away from home and work is a blessing but these are my top two.
Anyone have their favorite?
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Boomer