Sunday, October 5, 2008

A Short Break

Clark County School District Staff Development day provided the opportunity for us to get out of town for a day. We escaped to Mount Charleston on Thursday night and set up the trailer.

Oh how nice to be up in the mountains with trees and the cool breezes. The leaves were starting to change colors and the air was crisp. After dinner, Vicki pulled out a surprise. Huge marshmallows for roasting. Words cannot describe but pictures can. Spencer had two. The second was his Abrahamic marshmallow that he tried lighting on fire. These big marshmallows don't burn like the smaller ones.


One experience that we didn't anticipate was that camping near Las Vegas brings in the Vegas element. Our camping neighbors were up most of the night. Chopping wood for there fire, drinking and talking loudly including vulgarity laced rants. About 3:45 am I went over to there camp and asked them to go to bed that their noise was keeping us awake. They were clueless as they asked if it was there talking or the radio. I said it was the talking. When I talked with Vicki the next morning, she was surprised to hear that they even had a radio. We'll another 15 minutes and they settled down.

We finally woke up in the morning and started to get breakfast, only to find out that the last of the propane was used in keeping the trailer warm. With options running low we decided to have lunch for breakfast and then we headed out for a hike. The plan was to finish the hike head home and have breakfast for dinner. We choose a beautiful hike and with Toasty leading the way we found butterflies, log bridges, Christmas tree shaped pines and shear limestone cliffs.


As we headed home, ignoring the night time antics of neighbors, we felt refreshed by the experience and ready for more time in Las Vegas.

1 comment:

Tanielle said...

Wow! Those marshmallows are HUGE! Where do you find those? Looks like fun!