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Another Adventure in the woods

Went again today to Mt. Charleston to venture out and see what there was to see. Only this time, it is Monday and NO ONE was there. I hiked for about 45minutes without hearing a peep from another human being. Normally I would think that that was the ideal way to hike however, my mother, sister, and a few of my friends have got me thinking. Since I went on my last adventure hiking alone everyone has expressed concern over me getting killed or eaten by mountain lions. On my first hike, there were so many people on the trail that it wasn't really a concern. This time hiking uphill higher and higher without another soul in sight I started picturing a large cat charging at me and all the possible option to get away from them. This did not make my hike pleasant. I kept trying to calm down but couldn't. Eventually I turned around and started back down the hill. Overall, my hike was awesome and I took some pretty pictures. :) Not to mention no sign of any large cats.

Ghosts in Las Vegas?

So a friend of mine and I decided that we were really bored. So we found a ghost tour of Las Vegas which sounded interesting enough. When we got there we were sat in a cheezy theater with a skull hanging from the procenium, a painted backdrop of brick and weeds, a fake tree, and small burts of fog clearly from a fogger. We were already two beers into the night so this was enough to get us giggling. The lights went out and the "scaryness" began. However when the lights came up an old man comes out and just starts talking about ghosts. He did some neat phycic tricks as he guessed the name of someone in the audiences relative who had died. Then some guy came out and lied down on a bed on nails with four large audience members stood on a piece of wood that lied across his stomach. It was impressive but I am not sure what that had to do with ghosts. Another old gentelman came out and read three peoples minds. He missed one so only got two out of three but still I am not sure how he did it. After the show in the theater we were brought out to a bus where we spent the rest of the time riding around the strip and hearing stories of ghost sightings in Vegas. We stoppped and got off the bus only twice, once at the Flamingo (my place of work-so not so pleasent for me), and the second was in a park where two boys were slain and are told haunt to this day. Someone, on the tour a year ago, caught them in a picture and that was passed around. I didn't catch anything on my camera. I took eerie pictures like the one above, but no ghosts, no orbs, nothing. On the tour we also drove many peoples houses like Redd Foxx's old place, Tupac's house (he was shot only two blocks from where I work-didn't know that!), Wayne Newton's house, and Liberachi's old place. Though the tour wasn't by any means scary or frightening I now know a lot about the town I live in (or at least I now know who died in what hotel and the best place to catch a glimpse of something supernaturaul). Wasn't worth the money that we spent but we got a free beer at the hotel when we got back so that made it at least tasty!

My first Las Vegas Adventure

Well I guess I can't really call it my first since this whole move has been one adventure after the next: finding a place to live, buying a car, working with TB, opening the show, adjusting to this weather. However, yesterday I finally did something fun. I went to Mt. Charleston where there is actually trees, and some greenery. It is also about 20 degrees cooler than in the valley. Though 80 degrees is still pretty warm for a hike. I decided to go on a smaller hike today to get adjusted to hiking again. (since living in NYC didn't allow me to hike much at all-except from 9ave to 5ave). the hike that I went on was called Cathedral Peak. It is about 3 miles round trip and it took me about 2 hours (including lunch at the top). It is a rather steep hike with an elevation of 1000 foot so many people are parked on the side to catch their breath. The sights were beautiful and it was a great first hike. The picture above is a view from the top. You can see the little road that I drove out to get the mountain. It was a great first adventure! And now that I know where the mountain is....I hope to get out there for a longer hike sometime soon!!