Happy New Year-Las Vegas

After everyone left after Christmas, it got pretty quiet at Wikieup. It was nice for a couple of days, but we (mostly I) thought it would be more fun to be around people for New Year's Eve. So, we called and were able to get into one of our parks in Las Vegas a few days early. What could be more exciting that New Year's Eve in Las Vegas!

Well, we thought there would be something exciting going on at the park New Year's Eve, but I guess everyone was down on the strip--not where we wanted to be that night. So, we brought out our sparkling cider Travis & Shannon gave us for Christmas, and celebrated by ourselves after all. We even stayed up until midnight. But, because we only stayed up until Arizona time (which is an hour earlier than Nevada time), we missed all of the fireworks they set off in this town at midnight!
The park was actually pretty quiet, but we ran into Ken & Sandy Calhoun from Emmett! We had fun doing things with them for a week. We went to the Temple, to a movie, shared several meals, played games, and even spent one afternoon seeing the sites on the strip. They had us keep their little dog while they did their laundry. The week went by really fast.

The LDS Temple is beautiful. It is build on the side of the mountain and if you know where to look, you can see it from many places in Las Vegas. In fact, if you stand on one road in the RV park where we were, the Temple was in plain site.

We ended up going back to Wikieup for a day and a night (about 150 miles from Las Vegas) during the time we were here. Our good friends who own a piece of property next to ours came down from Ogden, Utah. We needed to check our mail and wanted to make sure we got to see Dutch and Gail Odekirk (and Huggers). We hope we meet up with them again later on. Dutch was a boyhood friend of my Dad's and our family has known them forever.

There were a few things we hadn't seen on the strip the afternoon we went there with the Calhouns, so we decided to go one evening so we could see the dancing waters, the Treasure Island ship fight, and the volcano errupt. There are so many lights! We took a bus from a place close to our park and then walked the strip. I don't know how many miles we walked, but it seemed like a lot!

One of the casinos had a rain forest restaurant and gift shop. We met some really scary creatures there!

This was a very friendly elephant!

One fun place we went was the M & M store. They had any color of M & M you could want. We went to the fourth floor and watched a 3-D movie about how one of the candies lost his "M" in Las Vegas and we all got to help him find it!

Well, here we are leaving the Las Vegas RV park. After two weeks, were were ready for different scenery outside our little Condo. We are on our way to Parker and hope to make it to the famous Quartzside flea market!