12 December 2014
The year ends with an exciting month in December. To begin
with, staying in Bullhead City, AZ for the month of December was supposed to be
a break from the winter. Well it was cold, windy and even had snow. However, it
was better than the bitter cold of Idaho Falls, ID.
My big mistake this month was to leave the car door open
while backing out the drive way. CRUNCH! I bent it and had to have it replaced.
While it was in the garage Dawn and I flew to Phoenix to be with Monica and
family for her graduation. She obtained her MBA from WA Carey business school
at Arizona State University.
When we returned to Bullhead City, AZ three days later the
car was repaired and we left Thursday night to spend Christmas in California.
We stayed in Bakersfield the first night before arriving at Wayne and Robyn Lau’s
home. We spent a couple of days with Kesler before he left for Utah.
We arrived just in time for the annual Sacramento Santa Run just before Christmas.
Just the
right amount of time to cut down a Christmas tree and have lunch with Ben,
Rebecca and Sage before we went to the movies with Indy to see “Night at the
Museum II.
We had a wonderful meal with “Big” Wayne’s family Christmas
eve, then spent the Christmas morning with Indy and parents. It was a great time. Robyn prepared a delicious
meal of prime rib with all the trimmings.
I needed to mention that Robyn had given us a pass to the
Auburn Valley Golf Course for Christmas. So, we took Indy and carted around the
beautiful course while playing golf on the only day it did not rain before
Christmas.
Later that week Dawn and I visited our friends in Yuba City,
CA. First we visited Marilyn Frerish, then had lunch with Pat Skidmore, and
after wards drove to Sutter to visit with the Knorrs. Betty has had a recent
surgery and was feeling weak. Lastly, we
visited with Dawn’s good friend Kathy Glassco.
Robyn had given us tickets to see the “Jersey Boys” in Las
Vegas on Tuesday so we left Grass Valley on Saturday and stayed in Reno one
night before driving to Wellington to visit with Jerry Shorter and Judy his
wife. Then on Sunday night we stayed in Bishop, CA at the El Dorado motel. The next day we did something
crazy. We took highway 168 across the dessert to Death Valley some 78 miles.
The pavement ended at 25 miles so we drove across very rough and dusty roads to
Scotty’s Castle. This was the first time we had been there. The next stop was
Ryolite to see the glass house. Passing through Beaty, NV (where Dawn graduated
from high school), we finally arrived in Las Vegas. After driving through the
nightmare maze of the strip we finally parked our car Harrahs hotel. Then on
Monday we transferred to the Flamingo hotel where we stayed and walked to see
the “Jersey Boys” at the Paris hotel. All in all it was a delightful time.
We are glad to be back to Bullhead City, NV and just before
the new year the Mariners arrived with sick kids to spend a day of two. Roxy
was really sick with the flu and then Monica came down ill and finally Burton got
sick while here. Adam stayed well and we had a great time at the shooting range
and an outing to Oatman mining town. The Mariners left early because of the
flu. It was still good to see the family.
Car in for repairs
