We’re getting ready to crash at the Best Western Lighthouse Inn in sleepy Boulder City, NV. Our vacation is pretty much a road trip starting in Vegas heading out to a couple of the local National Parks. First stop tomorrow is the Hoover Dam and then the Grand Canyon.

It snowed this morning at home, by the way, so it’s a pretty nice transition: this morning, we were shoveling and now, Heidi is asking me to turn up the AC. It is supposed to rain all week off and on, so we’ll see if the weather holds up, but right now it’s 70, clear, and gorgeous out. Even this close to Vegas, you can see way more stars than you can out on the east coast.