Along the way, I stopped in St George and took some pictures of the St. George temple at night, which I'd never had the opportunity to do and figured I'd take it while I could, partially to practice using my new Canon 50 mm f1.8 lens, which I purchased partially because I'll be shooting Kim's wedding at the end of August and wanted a lens for lower-light and portrait shots.
I arrived in Henderson pretty late, but not so late that we couldn't visit a while and watch...what was it? I was so tired, I fell asleep partway through. Anyway, the next morning was Saturday, and Heather made some really good blueberry muffins, then Anne, Nicole, Heather, and I were off to the Multigenerational Center for a pottery class. Yes, the girls planned the weekend. I was along for the ride. At the community center (a cool place, I might add, with pool tables, classrooms, workout spaces, a swim center, etc), I opted out of paying $10 for my own clay and instead "helped" Anne with her pot by making the little round parts for her flowers and molding the hummingbird, that sort of thing. Mostly, I was just gazing out the window at the...*ahem*...scenery.
We then picked up Rich and headed to Chipotle for lunch and then off to Madame Tussauds wax museum at the Venetian. Locals get in for $10 instead of the usual $25, so Anne and I were a couple for financial purposes. I'm a kept man. Honestly, I have to say I wasn't terribly excited for the wax museum, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much goofy fun you can have posing with the celebrities and going through the little haunted thing (which was kind of lame in a way but fun, especially with Anne in the back).
After stopping at Brookstone and playing with gadgets, we went back to Henderson and met up with a bunch from Anne and Nicole's ward at Claim Jumper. I ordered the shrimp skewers, which I recommend. I also would have ordered a fruity drink had the server not forgotten me. I also met Sam, who reminded me immediately of Maggie Gyllenhaal, right down to her mannerisms and demeanor. She had heard that before. Hundreds of times. I suspected as much. Jake tried to convince Nicole that watermelon football in the pool was a good post-dinner activity, but Nicole had other plans in mind, so Heather, Anne, Nicole, and I went off in search of karaoke.
After four different establishments informed us they weren't doing karaoke that night, we gave up and finished the evening by going to the Airstream Bowling alley, which is two lanes of pins-on-strings style bowling in a trailer in the Silverton Casino. Thus wrapped up the events of the birthday extravaganza.
Sunday consisted of the usual loitering in the morning and church meetings in the afternoon, I headed to 24 Hour Fitness for a quick workout (I was way behind and decided to break my usual policy against Sunday workouts). Then it was off to a (quite tasty) dinner at Nicole's followed by games at Misty's, where Jake led us in a couple of intense rounds of Bang!, which I enjoyed so much I ordered it using one of my Amazon.com gift certificates. Have I mentioned I miss having a group of friends who like to play games? I finished the evening chatting with Nicole and Heather at their place and then heading back to Anne's to crash on her couch.
Monday morning, Anne was off to work, so I headed back to Nicole and Heather's to play in the pool and lay in the sun with them for a couple of hours to soak up the sun and unwind before jetting back to Utah. ...I want a pool.
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P.S. you are very cute!
No you're not.
Uh-huh, is that so? *yawn*
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