We had a very great week. We all were quite busy. The boys were back to school and Gail and Andy both worked. We are proud of Matthew who earned his Webelos badge this week and you can see him giving Gail her Mother's pin. The same evening was the rain gutter regatta. Matthew gave it a great shot and did the best he had. We are proud of the effort he gave.

With the long weekend we decided to go and explore Reno, Nevada for the weekend. We left on Friday afternoon and stayed until Monday the 19th. We stayed at the Circus Circus Casino which is in the downtown area and had a nice room. Andy was able to work quite a deal and we had a suite for less than $80.00 a night. The boys enjoyed the Ccircus acts and you can see the booty they brought back from playing the midway games. As you can see Matthew ended up with more prizes. He playing this cork shooting game and was knocking the cans over like there was no tomorrow, he ended up trading prizes up for bigger prizes.

Saturday morning we headed to Carson City, the state capital. Everyone enjoyed Carson and Gail decided that maybe Nevada is not all that bad. She was ready to move to Carson City. From Carson City we were off to Virginia City, a old mining town in the mountains outside of Reno. As you can see the town still has wooden sidewalks. Virginia City is also known for launching Mark Twain's career. It was here as a newspaper reported Mark Twain took his name and began writing what became classics
of American literature.



The Delta Saloon is one of the many saloons in Virgina City. Another famous saloon is the Bucket of Blood Saloon. The Suicide Table is famous for the amount of owners who committed suicide following losing fortunes at it. The table is a blackjack table and now enclosed in glass. In addition to the saloons there is a beautiful opera house and a firefighters museum, which the boys really enjoyed.





We tried to get up to Lake Tahoe while there but didn't quite make it. We did get to see the temple which is beautiful and from it there is a great view of the city. We are excited to get back to Reno to do some more exploring.

We hope you all have a great week.