Here are pictures from our visit to see my dad. We started our drive there Thursday morning (the 20th), and returned Saturday night. The night before we left, we picked up a 1G memory card for the camera...and when I turned it on, it said I had available to me a total of 530 pictures!!
We've estimated, in taking about 220 pictures from the whole weekend, including BunFest, that we'd be able to take over 600 pictures! :shock: How cool is that?!?!
So, I went to TOWN taking pictures...on the way there, while there, on the way back, the drive to San Diego for BunFest, at BunFest, a bit on the drive home...yeah, I had FUN. I'm used to only having about 15 pictures to pick and choose from! I didn't want to spend the weekend picking and choosing from those 15, and erasing valuable memories to accomodate the beauty we always saw in the desert, and in our family during visits. It was really wonderful being able to just shoot away!!
So, without further ado...the pictures.
Some pictures of the drive are in order first!
An interesting load a truck was carrying...not sure what it was, but thought it worth taking a shot of. If anyone knows what on earth that is, let me know...we'd be happy to find out!
Some pretty views:
A picture of our trip yet to be travelled:
And it highlighted in pink, just in case it's hard to see...
The hills got shadowy...and I thought it was pretty:
Coming over the hills (see above pic of the road going between the hills). I have one later on of us going back over.
You can see State Line/Primm in the distance:
This is once inside Vegas...and a building I thought had some beauty to it...
Until I saw what it was...
Beautiful sky with big ol' rain clouds...
Emily playing with her cousin Ethan. He's my stepmother's grandson...and they get along so nicely...
(Emily's obviously the one with the red shirt...)
Cute little Ethan (he's about a year younger than Emily):
Emily playing with a walking penguin toy:
Emily in the pool...it got quite cold during the time we were there, and rained...so she only got to go in for about a couple hours the whole time we were there.
My dad's doggy, Boscoe:
Em and I spent a day hanging out with my stepsister, Danielle...these are shots from her place.
My wonderful dad taking his own pictures:
They bought Em a Spiderman suit while she was there...this is her playing with one of the walkie talkies Danielle gave her.
Danielle
The three of them:
Danielle is REALLY goofy...this is her posing with Emily. "Let's look smart, Emily...", she said...hehe!!
Danielle in the middle of talking...hehe!! She laughed at the look on her face in this one:
On the way home, we encountered a flooded desert! You can hardly tell there's desert sand under there!
Danny wanted me to catch a picture of the pilon in the water...so here's what I caught:
This one's my favorite...I don't think someone would automatically think this is desert...
Thought this one came out neat. Keep in mind, these were all taken from inside the car, while Danny was driving, with the window up.
Going back up the hill:
A bit blurry, but a good representation of what happens to the desert from a good rainfall:
This picture actually shows that this is through a window...one spot in the upper lefthand part of the picture, hehe!
I thought these clouds were beautiful...
It was about 6pm when these pictures were taken, so some of them turn out kinda dark and grainy, but you get the idea of the scenery...
The world's largest thermometer...beware, if you get off at the city of Baker from the 15 going West, don't use Baker Street to get back on...it only takes you toward Vegas, and doesn't give an option to go the other way!
And when we got home, the kitties telling us what they thought of our trip!
So, those are all the pictures.
Our furbabies were just fine when we got home. Our friend, Ivan, took really good care of them...and though Flower's still pouting...everyone's been out and about and happy to see us back home!
Hugs to you guys!!