September 25, 2018
So...I turned 30. That's a thing that happened. Everyone wanted to make a to-do of it...cake, presents, do special things. I feel like I let them down by not liking cake, not wanting or needing presents, and being content to just be on this trip enjoying my time. Rachel couldn't get over the fact that while I was constantly decorating cakes as practice for my cake decorating class while she and I were roommates, I didn't actually like eating it. So she asked about pie. Rachel loves making pies. I told her that if she really wanted to make one for me, I'd eat it, but be just as content without it.
We went to the Clark County Museum which has a lot of history for the area. They started right off with reminiscing about Al Gore's lock box. Of all the things I remember from US Government in high school, the Gore/Bush SNL skits are in the forefront.
Inside the museum
Rachel and Jillian, who's nickname is Jilly Bean!
(We forgot to take a picture of her in front of the restaurant Chilly Jillyz that we ate lunch at the day before in Boulder City.)
This picture didn't turn out well, but I've never seen wrapped beeswax candles like these before.
Do you know what Clark County Museum is famous for? I didn't until this guy, the museum curator, walked in doing an interview and mentioned Pawn Stars. OH, MY GOSH! And then I casually or not so casually hung around acting like I was looking at the exhibit but really waiting to see if maybe the interview would end and I could tell him that he was my favorite part of Pawn Stars and snag a picture with him. Buuuuuuut….the interview kept going and I ended up just leaving.
The big cardboard at the entrance looked only vaguely familiar.
The Clark County Museum is outside more than it is inside. Houses, cars, churches dating back to the 1930s.
This headline had me baffled for a while, wondering why a black widow bite would be particularly fatal to a vegan (VEE-gan). Then I realized it was Vegan (VAY-gan), as in one who lives in Las Vegas, and suddenly it made much more sense!
Row of houses and Four
The kids thought this one was particularly funny because it was like Aunt Becky.
One thing I LOVED about Clark County Museum was the paper pamphlets they had for the kids with pictures of objects to find throughout the museum. Everyone was actively engaged the whole time we were there!
We went back to Rachel's house for lunch, then set out again for Ethel M Chocolate Factory and Cactus Garden.
I don't remember all the cactus names, but this one is a Saguaro. One got really excited when he saw it. Apparently he learned about it in a book on ABC Mouse.
Two loves Saguaro cacti because they remind her of a friend from Arizona, Dee Hall.
This is jojoba! As in jojoba, the popular carrier oil for essential oils.
Barrel cacti
Two wanted to take a picture of me with the solar panels because I love solar panels.
We had a fun few minutes in the cactus garden where a couple kids wandered off down a different path and we had to find them. The garden was contained, relatively small, but still sent the mom hearts racing. It was over 100 degrees!
After finding the kids, we went inside for air conditioning and water. Ethel M is set up so that there are window walls for watching the chocolate making processes. At each step, there are explanations of what you're viewing. "1. Here is where they..." Whatever. You know what was funny? We went through reading all the steps and they weren't making anything. We did see them boxing up the chocolates at the very end of the line.
#ChocolateWall
{One, Two, Four, Alana, Three, Five, Jillian, Maddie}
Yeah, sometimes we make it to the front side of a camera.
{Me and Rachel}
More saguaro pictures
{Jilly, Alana, One, Three, Two, Five}
Two
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