Pahrump Fall Festival

The Pahrump Fall Festival was...interesting to say the least. The phrase "rode hard and put away wet" kept coming to mind when I was people watching...

Did you know prostitution is legal in Pahrump? Oh, also smoking anywhere outside and drinking. I have never been to a carnival with so much cigarette smoke. My two choices for alcohol were Bud and Bud light so needless to say it was a alcohol free evening. My friend, Nannette was a working at a booth promoting dog food so we went to hang out with her and baby Henry. I'm glad I went to experience the "culture" on the other side of the mountains.

PS. I fit right in with my tattoo.

RENO!!

When I get the chance to meet my blogger friends in "real" life, I jump on it. Alan wanted to go to the Reno Air Races and meet up with his friend, Don from Alaska. I thought that was the perfect opportunity to meet Martini Molly!

We decided to make a road trip of it (8 hour drive from Vegas) and took Tug and Mack with us. We hit the road Friday morning for a long 4 day weekend.

Alan and I met up with Molly on Saturday and took a drive to North Lake Tahoe. What an awesome place!

Martini Molly & Shelly

Alan "King of the Rocks"

Later that day when we headed back to Molly's house she made us her famous martinis! Chai-tini and Godiva white chocolate martini were on the menu. Oh so good! It was a great weekend get-away hanging out with friends and I can't wait to see Molly and her son, Ned again!!

Why yes, a bachelor does live here...why do you ask?

Our friend, Chuck's casa on the first Sunday football game of the season. I think he has it covered.

New addition to the family.

His name is Whisper, but we renamed him Mack. He is a 10 year old, chubby, deaf Boston Terrier, but sweet as can be. His people needed to re-home him because of their situation. We weren't looking for another dog--we still really miss Willy, but felt like this was the right thing to do. He has lived with us for four days and we are all adjusting. First order is to get some weight off of him.

Tug

Tug LOVES his new toy...

Lake Mead!

Alan and I have lived in Las Vegas almost three years and we had never gone out on Lake Mead. Our friend, Kurt was nice enough to take us out on his boat.

Hoover Dam

Kurt & Shelly

Pretty sad how low the water level has gone down the last several years.

Alan

Sammy loves his boat rides!

Here is a picture of Sammy with a HUGE rock in his mouth. He paced up and down the beach with that rock for about 10 minutes.

It was a fun day but not a very successful ending. I thought I was being good and drinking enough water (even stayed away from the beer), but I ended up getting really dehydrated and had to go to the emergency room for a couple of IV bags. Alan said it was the most expensive bottle service of the night. Thinking about it later I think the reason I got sick and the boys didn't was because they kept jumping into the lake and swimming. I only did it a couple of times. It was to hard to haul my lard ass into the boat!  :~)  Lesson learned...

Baby Henry

My friend, Nannette had baby Henry when I was out of town in San Diego so I didn't get to see the little fella until he was a week old. So cute!

Here I am feeding and burping him. Yes, I'm a natural with kids. Who knew?