Las Vegas

Another vacation out west took us to Las Vegas for a wedding and some time with parents again!

We were able to go to Mike and Jori's wedding outside of Las Vegas, in Mount Charleston, Nevada. We arrived early and stayed late in order to hang out on The Strip with Mom and Dad. It was quite the week of entertainment.

The trip was filled with great food, wandering, shopping, sun, the pool, a few rainstorms, The Lion King, Mike and Jori's wedding and more.













The view from the 20th floor out on the mountains.



















I had to travel in style. Em, you said you can't wait to see what I wore to the wedding; well what about this outfit?













This was on the top of Paris Paris, we went up after eating at Mon Amie Gabie where I ate delicious salmon and Katy had a steak with bleu cheese. We saw the Bellagio water show twice.













This is the Bellagio water show.













The Paris Paris view of The Strip.













Friday we went to the Hoover Dam and went on the full Dam tour. It isn't a long drive there but we got there in good time and early enough to not be overcrowded. That was great because the last time I was there it was packed; granted that was when they didn't have the new bridge built so all Nevada to Arizona traffic used one two lane road.


























Since we took the full Dam tour we got to see a ventilation spot that was about halfway down the dam wall. The next view is great!













This was from inside that air vent/shaft.













A modern marvel. Also, you're in Nevada and Arizona once you walk about half way across the dam.












































This was in Boulder City where we stopped for lunch.

First Snow 2010

The snow has arrived. Forecasts said there was a possibility of 1-to-4 inches of snow but if it was cold enough, soon enough, it could be as much as 5-to-8 inches. Well, I snickered at that, I didn't think there was any chance the rain that was scheduled to come first would yield much snow at all. I was wrong. Good thing I'm not a meteorologist and have no tools of the trade.

I woke up at 7am and took a peek outside. Like a young kid, I still love looking outside to see if it snowed like the forecast said, often getting excited when it did snow. I woke up to a couple of heavy inches of snow and it has been coming down for the last four hours.

Katy and I enjoyed some breakfast and got ready to go to Costco before I work this afternoon. I got outside and cleared my car off, twice, in a matter of ten minutes. By that time, the car had four inches on it, I'd estimate. And it was that heavy wet snow too. I ended up helping a car out of our lot before we went, good thing it still had performance tires on.

Well, we were off after a bit and on highway 36. Before we even got a mile down the road there was a car completely off the road in the ditch no where even close to the road, I'd say 25 feet from the road. Coming westbound there was three cars off of the road and people were playing with their brakes too much so I had enough. We ventured off on Dale Street, where I used to live, and went on home.

I now sit watching the Wisconsin-Indiana college football game with Northwestern and Iowa on ESPN and Tennessee and Ole Miss on CBS. Too bad I can't just sit here all day watching the snow and football.