Tag: quilting

Four Nights in Vegas

Bigger than the London Eye!

We decided to go to Hoover Dam in the morning. It was really hot. I mean really hot. OMG! I really did not want to do anything in this heat. How do these people live like this? John did not want to take the tour and I just wanted to see the dam. John even walked out on the bridge to see the front side of the dam but it was making me nausea just thinking about him going out on that walkway. Ugh. Not for me.

  • Hoover Dam
  • Hoover Dam
  • John on the walkway overlookiing Hoover Dam
  • Lake Mead
  • Hoover Dam
  • Hoover Dam
  • Hoover Dam
  • Hoover Dam
  • Hoover Dam Seal
  • Hoover Dam
  • Hoover Dam
  • Lake Mead

After the Hoover Dam it just made sense to head to Sew Yeah, a large quilt store in Las Vegas. It is the largest quilt store in Nevada and I would say the largest in the world. It is huge. I was so excited because I have watched their videos but, I’m not going to lie. It is huge, so huge and there is sooooo much fabric. Lots of beautiful fabric but, not biased but, Flash Sew & Quilt has more beautiful fabric than this store. Don’t get me wrong, they have a great selection. Lots of minky. I didn’t see–and that doesn’t mean they don’t have it but, I walked the entire store and did not see Kaffee, nor Tula, nor Tilda. Again, it might be there but I did not see it. It is a beautiful store, the staff was friendly and I highly recommend visiting if you are in the area. This is a huge stand alone store!

If you want to see inside this store check it out.https://youtu.be/eE3208JMVkM?si=ZiQe2OTnUaqSucv-

Later we took a drive along the strip for John to see what all the hype is about. He really wasn’t interested in much. Thought it was ok. WHAT? The guy is not normal.

And for a short video of our trip down the strip click here. https://youtu.be/XtXO2G_ioC8?si=GL7t0bsbFeG-nnxX

The next day we took a drive to the Valley of Fire State Park. John didn’t want to go because all the dangerous trails were shut down. I mean, what would we do? My thoughts were, we’ll go for a nice ride through the park and save me from hiking in the heat. This was working perfectly for me. Who really wants to hike in 90 degree weather. Needless to say, John still was glad we went. It would have been nice if we could have hiked a trail and the weather was in the 70’s but that wasn’t the case so yeah, drive through.

  • Entry of the park
  • This is at the Beehives.
  • Oh look, we are so happy
  • Valley of Fire State Park
  • Valley of Fire State Park
  • Valley of Fire State Park
  • Valley of Fire State Park
  • Valley of Fire State Park
  • Valley of Fire State Park
  • Valley of Fire State Park
  • Valley of Fire State Park
  • Valley of Fire State Park
  • Valley of Fire State Park
  • Valley of Fire State Park
  • Valley of Fire State Park
  • A stranger took our picture
  • This is how this should have been done

John also took a few videos driving through here. If you want to see it, click here. https://youtu.be/9OYkuuF8w4U

We hung out at the pool, gave the dog a bath, did laundry and chilled a little all week.

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Kingman AZ

Our arrival in Kingman, AZ came with an unexpected breakdown. Luckily for us, David Steffen saw smoke coming from the trailer tires and waved us down. We had no clue. He thought the brakes locked but John saw it was a lost bearing. David and his mom and dad, not only stayed around to help, they ran to the store for tools while John and I ran to pick up parts. This entire ordeal took about 3 hours and they stuck with us the entire time. Even offered to let John shower at their house. Wouldn’t take a dime from us. OMG how lucky/blessed can you get? I can’t believe there are such wonderful people out there.

We finally made it to our destination 3.5 hours later than anticipated but, we were safe. We had some leftover tacos and went to bed. John had trouble sleeping because he couldn’t stop thinking about the bearing because he could not get a new race or new drum when he bought the bearing. I don’t know what he is talking about but, we spent the day finding the right parts and then he actually found a place that pressed the old races out and replaces the whatever it was we needed. All John had to do was put it all back together and we were set. And now he has another set just in case. That meant we only had time to visit a couple quilt stores that day.

This was Donna’s Quilt Store and I bought this beautiful Hummingbird panel. I just told Bridget she needs to order this because I want to make more than one quilt with this. Sorry I did not take a picture of the other store. I bought fabric but from the outside I thought it looked like an antique store and thought maybe the quilt store went out of business.

We opted to order out last night but everything seemed to be chain restaurants so we got Indian food. It was a hole in the wall place, Brothers Indian that was highly recommended in Yelp and it was delicious. On the way home we had some beautiful sunset views. The last one is looking outside our camper door.

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