2009 Holidays and 2010 Beginning Travels

This travel blog will catch everyone up to date of our activities through the holidays and the beginning of our 2010 "snowbird" travels.

We spent a week in Wyoming ~ a few days at brother Dick's home before going on to brother Jim's home for the Thanksgiving holiday. Santa Claus on a motorcycle was a sight to see in Rock Springs, WY, while out shopping the day after Thanksgiving.

Entertainment for the holidays included a Living Nativity Scene at a local church and attending granddaughter Caily's school Christmas program. Caily is the one in the middle in the red dress.

We took a three day trip to Leavenworth WA with friends for the Christmas lighting festival.

A new addition to our extended family. Mom shown with Mae (my niece, Karla's first baby).

After Christmas festivities with Dennis' and family, and Karla's visit to our home on the 26th, we loaded up the motorhome, trailer, car, bicycles, and ATV to head south. We met up with cousin Judy

and her husband, Larry, from Nebraska in Las Vegas, Nevada on the 27th of December. The Venetian Casino was one of our stops ~ the first time we have seen a "living statute" in the U.S. First picture shows the canal boats as seen in Venice, Italy.

Sharon particularly wanted to see Christmas lights in Las Vegas. Unfortunately they were few and far between. A nice display was in the Wynn Casino..............

......and at the Ethyl M Chocolate Factory and Cactus Gardens. Here they had over 500,000 lights all over their Cactus Gardens. There is a great video of this display at this site.

While in Vegas, Judy and Larry decided to upgrade three of their four ATV tires ~ picture shows the ATV void of three tires while they went to pick up the new ones.

First picture is a strange site was a motorhome with a cat door out the back of the motorhome. Double click on pictures to see larger image.

We visited the Trump Tower (picture is of Judy and Larry beside the model of the Trump tower) to see if Trump was able to "trump" the luxury we see in the Wynn Casino. Our vote was that it wasn't as good as Wynn Casino. But we did see on display the Singleton whiskey in the lobby lounge which is a rarity.

Another strange site in Vegas was this twin tower leaning casino and condo construction.

Our next RV park was outside of Lake Havasu....it was strange to see a motorcyclist ride up, sweep some rocks away, and pitch a tent for the night.

Our first ATV ride after arriving in Quartzsite was, of course, out in the desert. Judy managed to get a cactus sticker completely through her shoe. Tony got the pliers from our tool box and Larry removed the sticker.

More fun and excitement to follow soon.