Jacksons in Nevada (part one)

This past weekend my parents came to visit :)

So we went a few places

We headed west toward Nevada, and stopped at Modena.

We mostly wanted to see if anyone actually lived there.  Steven

and my mom claim they saw a woman and two dogs.  I think they

may have been of the spirit variety.... :)

People or no, Modena had some nifty run down old buildings.

Just over the Nevada Border is Cathedral Gorge state park.

Steven and I have been there and we really liked it, so we

were happy to show my parents. Plus at the time it was raining 

and really windy in Cedar, and for a brief moment we were able 

to escape it.

The rock formations all look like melting clay.

There are very narrow canyons? They aren't quite tunnels, but they

are fun to run down and explore through.

Making Steven pose with his mummy-in-law.

Dream playground!

The rain eventually caught up to us and slowly increased.

By the time we got back to the car we were pretty soggy.

 It really is neat little state park.

There is a little highway that runs along the eastern border of Nevada called 

highway 93.  From where we were it heads south through Caliente and Alamo, Nevada and comes out 20 miles north of Las Vegas.  For a while we've wanted to check it out.  We figured Nevada might have decent weather...

I guess it is still January..and this was only for about half an hour of our journey.  The farther south we got, the better the weather was.  It stayed pretty windy though.  It was more scenic than we realized, and some of the towns we passed were really neat.  I didn't get pictures though.

Since we were only 20 miles away, we decided to head to Vegas.  We checked out Fremont street in the really old part of Las Vegas.  I love the look of the older hotels.  I didn't get any pictures because I'm a little paranoid and was afraid to take my camera out; it's kind of a shady area to a sheltered little Utah girl.

We didn't stay long in Vegas before heading to Henderson and then to someplace I never thought we'd really see, or just hadn't considered it:

But we'll save those pictures and that story for later :)