The Camel Rock Casino show room was decked out for New Year's... we got there just as they cancelled the cover charge. All the chairs were wrapped with ribbons, therer were balloons hanging from the acoustical tiles, big firework-shaped fake flower arrangements at every table, and oddly, glass champagne flutes inscribed with "Camel Rock Casino New Year's Celebration 2012." I say oddly because the champagne never flowed, not even after midnight, and the bar was not serving champagne. I had a shot of tequila. The Rat Pack Revue entertained, just as it was meant to. We dug it, and the jokes were pretty funny. We are old enough to get the jokes. what was really funny, and Kip pointed this out this morning, was that the performers kept saying how glad they were to be in "Santa Fe." And each time they said that, they got a deeper silence from the audience. Because we were not in Santa Fe. and, if anyone in that crowd had been able to afford New Year's Eve in Santa Fe, I am guessing they would have been there instead of in Tesuque. But it goes deeper than that. This was on tribal land of course, we crossed what amounts to an international border to go to the Casino last night. These Rat Pack tributaries were not aware of course. If they would only install check points at the Pueblo borders, perhaps people would get a clearer picture. So, on many levels, the entertainers were flying blind when they said how great a city Santa Fe is. At least they tried. Happy New Year!