Las Vegas Road Trip

Got a quick weekend trip in to Vegas a few weeks ago to visit my friend Geoff.  We visited several historic monuments...checked out a couple art museums...we even attend church on Sunday...:)

FYI: The bridge over the Colorado at Hoover Dam is almost complete, so if you want your chance to spend 5 hours in traffic and actually drive on the Dam you had better get there soon.

I know where I'm staying next time I'm in Vegas.

http://www.arialasvegas.com/citycenter/

Geoff in front of the $25 all-you-can-eat-all-day buffet...looks exciting, but it's probably not.

Olympic Caliber Ostrich Racing

Turns out Chandler AZ has a history of raising Ostriches.

The annual Chandler Ostrich Fest includes Ostrich Burgers and Ostrich Racing see our video in the link. I see Olympic games potential. 

http://www.new.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=56490984122

Fossil Springs Hike

Leslie and I got an eight mile hike in this weekend with our friend Charles to Fossil Spings near Strawberry AZ. On the way there we fueled up with a refreshing Fudge Cheese Drink. It was a little different, but not bad. :)

Glactus

We had a fun weekend with Leslie's parents Jane and Caleb in town. One of the highlights was a visit to the Desert Botanical Garden in downtown Phoenix. There was a traveling glass art installation amongst the garden by Dale Chihuly from Seattle WA.

This Google Blog site won't let me make the images the size I want so I posted the best pics to the site below.

http://picasaweb.google.com/izaacspencer/PhoenixDesertBotanicalGarden#

We learned a lot more and saw some great examples of some very alien looking cactus. The Glass was very impressive.

Breck 2009

Leslie and I hopped over to Breckenridge CO last weekend to meet up with our friends Jamie and Kalle. A bunch of Jamies law school friends rented a house in Breckenridge for a couple months while they studied for the bar exam. Jamie and his friend Tiff invited us over while most of them were out of town taking the exam. Thanks Jamie and Tiff!

It was a little cold on Friday.

Our humble accommodations on top of the steepest, iciest hill you could ever create.

The top of Peak 8 is at 13,000ft above sea level and you actually have to hike about 200 above the top lift to get there. I've never been so winded but it was well worth the view and the ride down.