Thank you Alligient air for having cheap flights out of Idaho Falls. Scott, Lacey & little Macy were the first to take advantage. Our options were kind of limited because of the one year old, so we took it pretty easy. I had some cute pictures of the kids with Macy playing at the park but Noah deleted them so I don't have any pictures of her to post. She is a little cutie. The boys got a kick out of being around a little baby girl.
My absolute favorite part of their visit was going to see
Band of Horses at the Joint.
It was the best concert I've been to in awhile. I've given it a lot of thought ,way more thought than I should have, and I've concluded that it was because:
- The music was amazing live.
- There were lots of technical difficulties. The lead singer was having all sorts of problems with his pedal, but he was pretty relaxed about them and it made the show more memorable. At one point his microphone slipped down. He ended up singing on his knees.
- It wasn't super crowded & we were right up front.
- I didn't have a short, drunk, Asian guy rubbing up against me (you know who you are, Foo Fighter's fan).
- I was with some of my favorite people (Emily included though not pictured):
And finally, the bassist. The picture does not do justice to his awesomeness. He reminded me of
Kip and half of the time he looked like he was asleep. It was weirdly entertaining.
Scott wanted to do two things while he was here: eat at the Rio buffet and see the neon cowboy sign. I was sure that the neon cowboy sign was in Reno, not Vegas. There is a really big cowboy sign in Reno that exists in my imagination. And Vegas Vic, does in fact still exist in Las Vegas. It's part of the Fremont Experience. Which we experienced late one night.
While en route to Fremont street, we stopped at Gold and Silver Pawn. Guess what, it wasn't open. The Pawn Shop with a big neon sign saying open 24 hours was closed. That's our second Pawn Stars fail.
That was the only bad part of their visit. I am so glad they decided to visit.
