Happy Thanksgiving. I'm in Las Vegas celebrating Thanksgiving. I must make an attempt to log more often, by the time I actually get around to writing most of the sense of moment is gone. But like I was saying I came to Las Vegas to celebrate Thanksgiving. Maria is here with her husband Beau, and her baby Emma. So I've spent time bonding with my great niece, especially tonight. She and Leona went to the store for items to eat with the wines that Leona just received in the mail. It took them an hour to get back, and with mom and Beau at bingo that left me with Emma. So I spent the hour walking around the house with baby Emma on my shoulder singing songs and rubbing her back until she slipped off to sleep. Then I would have to sit down until she woke up and then walk around some more until she started crying. It was mainly trial and error but I eventually figured out the rhythm. If she is chewing on her hand and she won't chew on her pacifier then chances are that she's hungry. After she eats, then the chances are that she is tired. But she won't just go to sleep, NOOOOO one has to walk around again with her ones shoulder until she gets sleepy again. All and all I learned to appreciate Maria's dilemma her well meaning but selfish uncle she can't pawn Emma off on others when she gets tired. Of course I didn't spend all the day babysitting. Maria didn't want to spend the day stuck in the house so neither did anyone else. We went to Hard Rock to take the self tour of their rock museum, which was basically wander around the casino scoping out the different rock and roll memorabilias. My favorite ones were all grouped just outside the garage entrance. All my favorite women, Jewel, and Sheryl Crow. We also hit Ethel M. Chocolate just outside of Las Vegas in Henderson. We took the tour through the factory to see how they made the chocolate and I saw a new hobby. So far the hobbies I've collected have been beer brewing, and biking, I would like to try wine making but that takes a long time. It takes a long time, six months before the first tasting. There is know way I could devote that much time to a craft while on sea duty. I figure with candy making I'll have get use to the bitter taste of cocao. That way, just like coffee and the sour taste of beer, I can pick out the true taste of the cocao. Then I can mix and match until I find the combo that I like. Then I'll be able to make a quality chocolate candy. They also have a water reclamation plant out back that they call the living machine. They use microbes, plants, fish and snails to clean waste water from the plant. They use the water in their cactus garden, and what ever isn't used is returns to municipal water for reclamation. There used to be a relcamation plant of this sort in San Diego but to my understanding nobody wanted the finished product so 95% of the relcaimed water went back to the sea so it was closed down.