Planes, Trains and Relatives

After another debacle with Spirit Airline Chad and Janet and family flew into Vegas Saturday morning.  We picked them up at the airport and headed straight to Boulder City...after a quick early lunch at In-n-Out.

Then off to ride the Boulder City Train.

 An outing planned to delight an almost three year old's heart.

 Waiting on an abandoned track for our time to board the train.

But Ben was sound asleep in the car.

We were a bit worried this little person would sleep through his whole train ride.

 ALL ABOARD!

 

 

 Luckily Ben woke up as we boarded the train 

and luckily he woke up happy.

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 Exploring the old train cars.

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  Watching the model train go around it's track.

 Maybe next time we can ride miniature train.

But today we had to get to the park by Pam's house

 for a little family reunion/potluck lunch 

with the all the Boulder City relatives.

And amazingly they all were able to come.

It had been years since Chad and Janet had seen these cousins.

By the time we got home Chad was feeling kinda sick and a few of the kids were showing symptoms.

Sunday Chad and Lucia stayed home from church.

Shrimp Boil

 We did get everyone to the park for some fresh air and playtime in the afternoon. But Chad was still just dragging.

 Dusting the new gifts to the Fairy Garden with Pixie Dust.
The magic is real!
 Monday morning I flew off to Dallas to help welcome a new baby and left the Houston crew for Karl to tend.

On the Town

with Clark and Rachel

 First stop the Old Las Vegas Sign Boneyard

 

Of course... Clark's favorite sign

 

 Next stop Container Park

 Trying out the slides

 Testing the wares from Ern's BBQ and Mexican Food cooked by real Mexicans.

 On to Fremont Street

 

 

 Clark didn't qualify to eat free.

 

We Made A New Discovery

 in old downtown Las Vegas. 

 A little shopping and restaurant plaza

 made from old shipping containers.

It's only been open for about 8 months.

 

I heard about this place a couple months ago 

so after Karl's last rad appointment we decided to check it out.

They've tried to make everything out of recycled or re-purposed  items.

Lots of fun little (really little!) shops and restaurants .

Even one of my favorites.

There's a stage at one end where they show movies on Thursday nights
 and concerts on the weekend.

Karl's envisioning Aspen Ridge on the Stage. 

 Maybe possible.

There's an awesome Treehouse playground in the center.

 I really wanted to go down the tube slides
...but I didn't.   Maybe next time.

Click here and watch a fun video about this place.

Come to visit and we will take you there and get you some amazing food, listen to music while we eat

and you can go down the slides with me.

Now how can you pass up a deal like that:)

The Neon Boneyard

As a last adventure with Jake here in Vegas we visited the historic
 Las Vegas Neon Boneyard.

 The Boneyard isn't historic...but everything in it is.

Old Neon signs from Vegas' colorful past.

 Here's one for Clark.

Do you remember any of these?

 We went at 9:30 am but unfortunately it was blazing hot already

and the kids were getting toasted.  So we ended up cutting our hour long tour down to about 45 minutes.

But I did get our name in Lights.