Wednesday, May 12, 2010

5/7/10 - 5/9/10 Las Vegas

5/7/10 - 5/9/10 Las Vegas Adventure statistics:

adventure days=3
vacation days off of work=1
highway miles=990
off-highway miles=5
hiking miles=1
average lodging cost per paid night (0 night) = $0.00
average lodging cost per total nights (3 nights) = $0.00

This past weekend, we took a trip to Vegas to attend Judy's graduation! We stopped at Valley of Fire State Park on Friday to go hiking and took Judy on a short Jeep ride on the Logandale Jeep Trails. Didn't hike much, didn't jeep much, but had a great time hanging with Ron's family and had great weather! Gay went with us as far as St. George so she could spend the weekend with Marci. Although not recorded in photograph, Lori got a breakfast and a couple of homemade cards from her kids, and Ron and Lori each got to spend part of Mother's Day with their Mom's.

Enjoy!!!

By the way, for some reason, after you click on the play button on the slideshow, you have to click the other play button below for the slideshow to start, but if you click too fast, the whole web album pops up in a new window, if you click too slow, the second play button hides itself. Annoying. (Note, those viewing via email or Facebook might need to go to the live blog at http://rllrtolman.blogspot.com/2010/05/5710-5910-las-vegas.html to see the picture slideshows)

VALLEY OF FIRE SUNRISE:
We left St. George at 4:30amMDT to make it to VOF by 5:30amPDT for sunrise and breakfast. It was beautiful! Next time Ron should remember the matches so we don't have to eat cold, dry oatmeal for breakfast!


VALLEY OF FIRE HIKING:
Judy, Sam, Amity, Wayne, Haley, Davin, Treton, Jessica, Chelsea and Lisa all met us for a day of "hiking" around VOF. I say "hiking" because we mostly dawdled and only put a total of 1 mile of official trail underneath our feet.


JEEPING AT THE LOGANDALE 4X4 TRAIL SYSTEM:
Ron and Riley took Judy, Wayne, and Davin for a quick jeep ride before heading to town. Despite our intentions to spend half the day jeeping, we only got part of a short trail finished. As that Ron was the driver, the spotter, and the photographer, we came away with just this one blurry picture. Now that we know where to go... We'll be back!
From 2010-05 (May) 03 Las Vegas - Logandale Trail System


GRADUATION:
Congratulations Judy!! We are very proud of you (and jealous)!! Over time, all the kids got restless and ended up leaving the stadium proper to wander and play in the outer corridor, and eventually, outside.


OTHER:
Does "other" need a description? I guess not!