An Adventure Out West - Part 2: Vegas

Wednesday night/Thursday morning sleep was pretty short. The time change helped a little. I went to bed at 0520 Eastern DT, but that was only 0220 Pacific time. Kira had offered to come bring me her car at lunch time so I could sleep in, but I knew my body wasn't going to fooled by a little airplane ride, and sure enough I was up before 0700 PDT. Thursday is still a little fuzzy on the details. I took Kira to work, then went to visit with Dad for about an hour. He was leaving at about 1000 to go to Cedar City by way of Washington Utah for the graduation. After the visit, I had to do a little shopping. I needed to get something for both Kira and Jessi. Jessi was easy (Chromecast device), but Kira was a little complicated. I was looking for a Sodastream machine. She had been using her mothers machine the week she was in Rock Hill with me and really liked it. It was to be an early birthday present. The machine was easy. Both Walmart and Target had them. I was having some problems finding the syrup flavors she liked. Also no one had the half-liter bottles, just the 1L ones. I decided to think about it.

At lunch time, I picked up Kira at her school and we went to the first restaurant on my "pick list", Cafe Zupas. I had what she had, a  TBA (turkey, bacon, and avacado sandwich) and a red raspberry spinach salad.

I took Kira back to work. (Now after Kira reads this there may be some minor corrections - see remark above about being fuzzy!) I went back to Mike and Kelly's place and crashed. Sometime that afternoon I went and picked up the SodaStream for Kira. Dad called me from Washington saying he had forgotten his temple bag and asked if we could pick it up for him. Not a problem. Kira had packed all of her stuff so I loaded her stuff and mine in the car and made sure we had a full tank of gas. At 1800 I picked her up at her school and off we went.

Because we had a late lunch we decided we would wait to eat when we got to Mesquite. We swung by Grandpa's house and picked up the bag, headed out Nellis and on to I-15. We did grab a hamberger in Mesquite. Only issue with the trip to Cedar City was construction on I-15 in the Virgin River Gorge. They were working on some of the bridges and had it down to one lane each direction. So we had a 2-3 mile stretch at about 35mph, but other than that no problems. We got to Cedar a little after 2200.