Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving 5K 2012

This year I had only one daughter at home for Thanksgiving. For

Me in high school

the past few years we have gone go my sister's in-laws family to celebrate Thanksgiving. Until last year I brought all 3 of my daughters. Last year my middle daughter decided not to come home from San Diego. This year Jayne stayed in San Diego, and Lindsey is teaching ESL in Korea so it was only Sarah and I. I decided it would be fun to drive down to Arizona and have Thanksgiving with my mom. On Monday night Sarah and I stayed in a hotel in Modesto, CA and I taught in a school on Tuesday morning. It was fun to have Sarah come with me, it was like, "Take Your Daughter to Work" day. After one other stop we drove south. Sarah drove a lot and we had a 7 hour drive to Las Vegas.

Thanksgiving 5k 2011

After getting to Vegas around 7 we got settled into a hotel room and walked the strip for 3 hours from 8 - 11. My legs were killing me after walking up and down the stairs and looking at all the hotel casinos. It was fun for both of us to see how much the strip has grown.

We stayed in the Excalibur.

The next morning we got up early and drove to the Grand Canyon. I was hoping to drive over the Hoover Dam, which I had always done in the past, but they changed the route and had us drive over a different bridge. I was a little disheartened, but the drive was fun and we enjoyed the scenery. We got to the Grand Canyon around 3pm and looked for about an hour and then drove to Grandma's house which we got to around 7pm.

In Arizona outside Vegas

The next morning at 6:30 I left for a 5K run, my second of the month. I thought I ran really bad, but when I looked at my time it was my second fastest time this year. I have 2 more races to go this year to reach my goal of 2 a month (with a *). We had a great time during dinner on Thanksgiving and then Sarah got a text message that her science group decided to work on Saturday rather than Sunday like they had planned and she needed to go home on Friday so she could do their group work on making putting together a chicken skeleton. The drive back on Friday started around 1pm and we got home at 10pm. It was a nice drive and I drove half way and Sarah drove the other half. Over all it was a great weekend and Sarah and I enjoyed seeing my mom!

Fountains in Vegas

Vegas Angels

Outside one of the casinos