Monday, 4/11

"Holy Cow, what are those things???"

The cat meets our young grandchildren.

Loga, age 2 months, parked near our lawn chairs outside the uhaul.


Becky introduces Hanna to the water.

After a few minutes of uncertainty, Hanna gets into the idea of water!

I let Hanna play with my strainer basket with her toy shovel in the sand.

Night time.

After we picked up Becky and her kids from the airport yesterday in Las vegas we went to Wal-mart for some groceries, then back downtown to drive up the 'strip'. We got caught in a terrible traffic back-up and it took forever to creep up to where we could exit the freeway and go over the couple blocks to the strip. It was the first time I'd been on the strip after dark in nearly 30 years, and it was quite the show. Lights, lights, lights. We got to see the water fountain show in front of the Belarus, at least part of it, while we sat at a red stoplight. At the north end of the strip we got back on the freeway and headed north out of town. We cut through Valley of Fire state park and got to Stewart's Point around 1:00 in the morning.

We parked up on top of the hill behind "cell phone rock" and waited until morning to move the uhaul down to our camp site. In the morning Steven and I walked down to check on the rest of our stuff (the trailer, bicycles, kayaks, and motorcycle). Steven didn't want to move the uhaul back to that site because of the deep loose gravel. We walked around and looked at other potential sites, but nothing would have kept us as close to the water. We carried dozens of large, flat rocks and made a two-strip "road" for the tires to ride on. Then Steven moved the uhaul down there and drove it into the site on the rocks.

Then we had a late breakfast of pancakes and got settled back in to our site. Steven and I rode the motorcycle into Overton and went to the library. We also went to the grocery store and bought polish sausages and chips. When we got back to camp Steven made a campfire and we cooked dinner.