Havasupai, Las Vegas, and Home

Sweetheart has been on a desert Southwest tour for the last 3 weeks by going to Havasupai, Las Vegas, and Home.

Havasupai - Sweetheart was asked to accompany the 17-18 year old young men on their high adventure trip to Havasupai. A group of 6 left EARLY on Monday morning (12:30 am) and arrived at the trail head at 8 am.

They hiked to the bottom of the canyon and spent the week exploring and jumping off cliffs. Hurricane loaned his camera to his Dad.

After 7 pictures the camera broke because Sweetheart slipped and fell on it. Dad will be replacing said camera.

While Sweetheart was doing his thing, we did swim team, piano lessons, visited the doctor for Hurricane's well child, and got ready for the family reunion.

We drove north in another leader's car to swap cars in Prescott. We met the hiking party at Golden Corral. The boys were excited to see their Dad as was I.

Las Vegas - The annual Locey family reunion occurred in Las Vegas. Thanks to Ford for organizing a FUN reunion!!!

 

Before we went to the reunion, we went to be with our friends who moved one year ago. Our children were so excited to see each other that K-man ran when he saw our car pull into the parking lot at the park. They picked up like they had never been apart.

We spent the night outside on their deck because the night was cool. It was fun to sleep under the stars. The children were up early because they were so excited to play together. We are grateful the Ryan family hosted us!

The Locey family gathered on Saturday and spent the next week together. We saw the Hoover Dam, Nevada Southern Railroad,

Cirque du Soliel's Kà,

Las Vegas Mini Grand Prix, Bodies,

Bellagio Fountains,

Bellagio Gardens,

and Shark Reef.

We also went to a buffet called the Wicked Spoon. SO YUMMY!!!!

We spent lots of time at the pool and catching up. One night we had a talent show - violin, singing, piano, drums, bells, and a bass guitar. After the talent show, we played Locey Family Jeopardy.

The family laughed as they tried to form questions from the answers.

We returned to the Ryan's house and spent the afternoon. Sweetheart and Mr. E drove very fast indoor electric mini go-carts. Miss C and I went out to dinner. We drove as far a Kingman, AZ that evening. In the morning, we went to church. The ward we visited for church was so excited to see our family come that they were disappointed to learn we were traveling through. We descended on my friend, Shaulan and her family, after she moved from Oklahoma to Arizona in last 2 weeks. Thanks to such wonderful friends to let us come and be with them.

Home - We returned. It took us a week to unpack and still not everything is put away. Ford had said we were to get fat at the reunion. We have come home to eat so we don't get fat.

 

On Tuesday, Hurricane swam for swim team, got out of the pool, and was burning up.

He had a fever for 5 days of 102+*. He ended up having an ear infection. He never complained about his ear hurting once.

Underfoot swam at the swim meet. During the meet he stepped on a bee.

The stinger came out easy peasy, and we used baking soda to draw out the sting.

When we returned home, we were greeted by an awful ammonia smell. All the fish in the aquaponics had died. This really troubled Sweetheart . On Saturday, we replaced the fish with 20 tilapia in one pod and 2 Koi fish in the other tank. Balance was restored.