Travel and Family

On Friday night, we started our weekend out with a quick stop at Smith & Edwards (on our way out to Brigham City).  Smith & Edwards is part army surplus, part thrift store and a whole lot of Wal Mart.  They have some unusual candies too....if you want an "Idaho Spud" this is your place.  And yeah, we picked up a couple....just because we could -- and can't in Southern California.  We still haven't opened one up to eat it yet, I'm not sure they're even any good?! Because we were in Brigham City, we HAD to get some cherries. And, the reason we were in Brigham City was to eat at Maddox....love that fried chicken! Saturday, July 12th -- Orton Family Reunion, North Ogden, Utah. That's my 90 year old, Uncle Harold Orton (my mother's brother) in the purple cowboy shirt.  He's a World War II veteran and a wonderful carpenter (he build his home as well as a cabin in the Uinta Mountains).  He's lived in Morgan for dec...

Memorial Day Weekend in Vegas, 2014 Last year we attended a fund raising dinner for the UC Riverside Medical School and, in a silent auction, we won two nights lodging in Las Vegas.  One thing I've learned about going to Vegas is you've got to have a plan....if you don't, you end up just wandering the streets and watching the fountains in front of the Bellagio with every other drifting tourist.   So this time, I got tickets to a few events a couple of months ago.  We started our weekend in Vegas on Friday afternoon with dinner at Margaritaville.....not so much for the food as for the outside table overlooking the strip.  People watching in Vegas is an extreme sport and we were not disappointed -- European tourists, exhibitionists, lots of flirting, and tons of tattoos. After our dinner we went to the Donnie and Marie show....and, you know what, it was fun, upbeat entertainment.  Its nice to see people our age looking good an putting on a...