Another Happy Anniversary

Twenty Six years and counting, seemed like a reason to get our boots on and do the Cliff Gilker Park route, bear and cayote warnings aside, we had a good, brisk walk through the forest and could not resist going off to Robert's Creek afterwards to have some decent food at the Gumboot Restaurant.

Yard House

We discovered two new things in Vegas, Chipotle Mexican Grill and the Yard House. Two American food and beverage chains that we had never heard of, Chipotle was indeed impressive, serving self assembled burritos and bowls, after an inexpensive meal there we didn't have to eat again all day. The other chain, the Yard House, well, they had one hundred and thirty-eight beers on tap and as they say, regardless of how full you are, there's always room for beer...

The Strip at Tropicana

This was what that Gray Jay was looking at, over the road, New York, New York, the MGM Grand and lazy afternoon traffic at Tropicana and Las Vegas Blvd. A quiet November day in sin city.

Birding - Vegas Style

There really is no shortage of little birds throughout Las Vegas, what was once desert is a thriving environment for the little scavengers, we saw eagles in the desert, several ducks in a fake Casino lake, numerous opportunist white crowned sparrows, grackles, cowbirds and this little fella, sat on a wire outside of the Tropicana casino on the strip, a gray jay. The last time we saw one of these we were staying up at Whistler with Karen's mum Pat, celebrating her seventieth birthday.

  

Anniversary

In a few weeks time we will be having our twenty-sixth wedding anniversary, things are moving along as they do in this life, we worked out that this was at least our eighth trip to Las Vegas and we've been to Red Rocks about four or five times and it never gets old, hopefully, besides some number on a birthday card, neither will we.

Red Rocks

A twenty minute drive from the madness of the Las Vegas strip and we spent a nice few hours at Red Rocks, took a tour of the visitor center, a walk down the sides of a small canyon and breathed in the dry, desert air. At this time of the year, temperatures were warm with a cool breeze, or in the terminology of a typical Nevada resident, rather chilly or downright cold.