Las Vegas trip

Towards the end of February we traveled down to Las Vegas to help Crystal care for her dad and some medical "stuff"

Of course it's doctors and VA and all the other "stuff".

So now we took off a week of work and traveled down and the surgery has been postponed to next week. When I CAN'T take another week off.

Time to make lemonade.

Coming down we kept going through snow squalls. We left home at 3:40 AM on a Sunday morning. I think we drove through 5 snow squalls on the way down, though the only really sketchy spot was in Gallup, NM where we stopped at Carl's Jr for a beyond meat burger.

We arrived in the mid afternoon on Sunday when we met up with Crys' dad while we waited for our check in time at our Air B&B. That dinner we went to McMullins which is an Irish Pub for Irish Nachos and some beers. It was a good time with Dad and Daniel.

That was a good time, after that we all went home to sleep. This morning Dad picked us up and we did a fun tour of Las Vegas with our own personal Uber driver. First we did breakfast at a place called Blueberry Hill.

Where I very much enjoyed the totality of what is my favorite pancake breakfast place kind of spot. Following that we went to Ethel M chocolates, a spot started by Forest Mars when he retired from the Mars candy coglomerate. We did the chocolate tour, which was delightful and then wandered through the cactus garden.

Ethel M is Ethel Mars, Forest's mother and most of the candy recipes at Ethel M were those developed by Forest's mother over the years. Forest also loved the local desert and built a 3 acre cactus museum on the property. It's a lovely space to walk through.

After that we did a few fun things in Las Vegas. We went to the airport to watch planes land for a while, it's a thing Crystal and her dad do and it was fun to tag along. Dad, Glen, took us on a little dry run of how he spends his days as an Uber driver. We visited Total Wine and got Crystal a bottle of Bourbon Cream from a distillery in Butte Montana that we can't find anywhere else and it's a favorite of hers. It was a good day. We might run to a vegan restaurant for an early evening snack tonight, just for fun. And it'll be a good end to a good day.