Another long day of travel, this time we couldn’t get a non-stop, so we first went to Charlotte before heading back to West Palm Beach. Nice airport in Charlotte, which is giving me some ideas for future flights from the east coast we have to do soon. Arrived back by 9:30 pm, a short drive home, a few hours to unwind before bed.

Because our client extended our stay for an extra day of work on Monday, Hubby and I decided to take a drive out to Hoover Dam. It’s been decades since the last time we were here, and there was so much road construction at the time, we had no place to stop and look around. Now they have a new bridge where the main road goes which opened up last year, and a much larger observation area. We took a nice, sporty drive, planning on doing the best tour we could. Unfortunately, we discovered that because of his imbedded defibrillator, we couldn’t take the two best tours because of the magnets and electricity proximity, so we ended up just wandering around the visitor center, the grounds, and of course, across the dam. Really a miraculous structure, and particularly amazing for the fact that it’s probably the last government project (maybe the only one in history!) that was finished significantly ahead of schedule, and under budget! Afterwards, we took a drive into Boulder City and found a nice little ice cream parlor, where we sat next to the pink-spotted cows and enjoyed a cone before heading back to the hotel.

Slept as late as we could, missed breakfast at the hotel so we went out to a nearby IHOP. Did a little shopping, as usual, then headed back to rest up for the rest of the day. Too cold to sit by the pool, unfortunately, but after all, it is still winter!

Slept as late as possible, still leaving enough time for a free breakfast, then had a meeting with a new partner/friend, then a drive back to DC, sat around a LONG time at Sam and Harry’s waiting for our departing flight. Finally caught it, non-stop to Vegas, arriving after 11:00. Picked up our rental car, a nice little Mazda, arriving at the Hilton Garden Inn after midnight. Took more than an hour to wind down enough to sleep, even then it was unsettled. Long day!

Finished up our training today, then headed back to the hotel.  Walked around the corner to one of our favorite all time restaurants, Lehja, because we both LOVE Indian food, and they do it really nice here.  A great training camp, though exhausting as always.  Not much time to recover this time, flying straight from here to Las Vegas for another job!  Busy, busy!

Slept until just before 9:00, then hustled down for the free breakfast here at the Hyatt House Richmond West, our favorite hotel in this area. Ran out to do a little shopping, then spent the rest of the day preparing for our training camp tomorrow, and resting as much as we could.  Here are a couple of pix of our new backyard.