Circus McGurkus

We spent last week in Las Vegas on family vacation. The drive down there from Salt Lake takes about six hours. We made it with only 1 and two-thirds stops. I say two-thirds because I don’t count pulling off to the side of the road for Patrick to barf as ‘stops’. Before coming home we stopped and bought some Dramamine, which was like manna from heaven.

While down there we got together with old friends Eric and Cathy Roberts and children for ice cream and Cathy seemed stunned that anyone would voluntarily go down there in July. “What do you do here?” she asked. Mostly we spent our time swimming. The condo had two great pools, and we let the kids stay up late, sleep in and swim to their hearts’ content.

We also got together one night with Jordan and Nikki Brown so that the kids could spend some time with their cousin Warren.

On Tuesday we went over and got the kids day passes to the Adventure Dome at Circus Circus. Bean didn’t appreciate the rides that much, but we discovered that Samantha is the real daredevil of the kids. After dinner time the place cleared out, and some times the kids had the whole ride to themselves. We even got Whitney to go on a huge roller coaster all by herself.

On the way back we got an up close and personal view of the fire that a week earlier had jumped I-15 and has burned down most of Utah. I would show some pictures, but everyone was asleep except me, and I couldn’t drive and take pictures at the same time.

We thought that our last night in Vegas would be spent in the ER, as Patrick (who else?) gashed his eye open on the corner of a dresser. He may have a scar, but hey, we saved a co-pay.

On the whole it was a fun trip and it was hard to come home and go back to work.