Las Vegas

Clint and I made a super fast 24 hour trip to Las Vegas last Friday/Saturday. Clint has been training for a 5K for a while now, and needed a race to gauge his progress and to determine what he needed to do next. He knew that the Las Vegas 5K would be fast. We left the kids with our friends (thanks Chase family) and drove to Denver to catch our plane. Love flying Frontier. The flight attendants are great and we even got to watch about 20 minutes of the Celtics game for free. We arrived in Las Vegas at about 5:30 PM. We got our rental car, ran to pick up Clint's race packet, and off to our airbnb accommodations. Eric was a fantastic host and his guestroom was perfect! We've not had a bad experience with AirBnB. Clint changed and went for a run, and then we grabbed some dinner at a local grocery store. Clint had a burrito and I had a salad and we shared chips and fresh salsa. We were up early and at the race by 7:15 or so. Clint warmed up and then the race started. It was a very fast 5K and the winning time was 14:30. Clint didn't do as well as he had hoped (20th place, not what he wanted for time), but it was a good evaluation of the training he has been doing. He has made some adjustments and is training should improve his times accordingly.


Lined up for the race. There were over 500 competitors.

After finishing up with the race stuff, we went back to our room so Clint could shower and we checked out. Then we ran around town looking for kinder eggs (the only thing Chani wanted for Easter) but we never had any success. We also drove out to the Hoover Dam for a few minutes. Clint had never been there. We then stopped for mexican food at a dive in Henderson (it was delicious) and then back to drop off our rental car. We were at the airport in plenty of time, and made our flight without any trouble. We were home and the kids were tucked into their own beds by midnight.


I know Clint's eyes are closed, but that's the only picture we took of the two of us.

It was a whirlwind and not exactly what we expected, but we were glad to go. We had a nice time being alone together even if it was fast and short.

I should mention two things. The first is that since we've traveled twice in two months, our kids expect a gift when we get home. We rocked it this time, at least from Emery's point of view. He's been obsessed with the platypus lately. My nephew is serving a mission in Australia, and Emery already sent a letter asking Elder Stevenson to bring him a platypus. So, when we found Perry at The Disney Store (from Phineas and Ferb) we had to buy him. The funny thing is that Emery has only seen the show once and not at our house. So Perry has been going everywhere and Emery even made him a habitat (a huge cardboard box that he scribbled blue marker inside to look like water) for sleeping. He's sitting on the couch right now keeping me company while Emery is at preschool. Chani got a princess sun hat, which she is also thrilled with.


While we were shopping we found this. Isn't it funny??