On the road home... with a short detour.
We disembarked on Saturday morning around 9am. We had plans.  Translation we would spend money.
Our ship docked at the same pier as the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. Since we knew this we planned to tour the "Queen" and then to take a private shuttle to the airport. Our flight won't leave until 5pm that evening. We walked tot he ship, found a place to store our bags and went aboard to find a tour.
We thought the tour would cost $25 a piece. We arrived so early that we could get in for free and  take a FREE walking tour. Cha-ching!! $50 saved! Since we started our tour early we, we ended it early and got on our prepaid shuttle to the airport thus saving $65 for the taxi ride. Cha-ching, cha-ching.
What to do with this largesse? Las Vegas baby.
After a delay of maybe a hour for our flight we left LAX and arrived in LAS, jumped in a rental car and drove the 80 miles to Kingman, AZ to sleep like logs, albeit, snoring logs. We expect to drive and see sights outside of the "Strip" then to spend one night "investing" our savings in the "bank of Las Vegas" to fund our trip. Wish us well.