Irma's, Silver Dollar and Dan Miller

Yesterday was a good day for us to see more of the local attractions and events that we have been putting off for longer trips. It started with a long walk around town. We stopped at the Walgreen's on the corner of our complex to get a battery for the pedometer that I purchased a couple years ago. We wanted to see how far we actually walked around the town. The final total was just over 1 mile, which seemed a lot more as we stopped at just about every store on the main street. Our plan was to make a whole night of the local events that we had been missing: the Gunfighter's Shootout at the Irma Hotel, Silver Dollar Bar for dinner and Dan Miller's Western Music Show at night.

We started at the Irma Hotel at around 5:30 to get a good seat for the "shootout":

The crowd settled in and the scene became a familiar one for westerns - a Bank, a Saloon and a Jail:

Of course, there are gatherings at a poker table in the Saloon where a bank robbery is planned, then executed, and Wyatt Earp rounds up the bandits to put in jail - only some of them refuse to go to jail.

The shootout occurs and you know the rest of the story.

After the Shootout, we had time to get some dinner, so we opted for the Silver Dollar, which we were told, has the best burgers in town:

We can vouch for the burgers - they were excellent. With a cold draft of Bud Light and some fries,  it was a great dinner.

Then it was off to the Dan Miller Music Show. It was a very entertaining show (and free to us as employees of the Village) and we enjoyed all the old western songs that they performed from the Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and other old western stars' era. Read the link about this man who has some great credentials:

It was another fun "weekend" for us and we once again wished we had only signed up to work 4 days a week instead of 5. The extra day would be nice in areas like this where there is always some place to go. We are getting closer to the day when we won't have to work as much...