Day 3 of traveling, cool stuff

May 11, 2005

Photos

We woke up in Wyoming after a good night’s sleep and
I started
driving at 5:45am. Wyoming is way too big. We had 209 miles to get to
Utah, but we made it. We had breakfast in Park City (home of the Olympic
winter ski events in 2002) at 10am, Kristine shopped at a Wild Oats grocery
store, Emily got some sushi and put it in the fridge for lunch. That was
our ritzy stop. We passed through Salt Lake City and out into the Great
Salt Desert where we came upon this cool "evaporation pool".
The kids
couldn’t resist a walk across it, only to find that it was many miles
across, when it looked like a short distance to them. They turned around
and came back and became human crystal salt licks.

I grabbed the camera for some cool photos. Also notice
the cool mirages. You really couldn’t tell if it was water or not without
moving and seeing that it kept moving away. The reflection in the mirage
is really cool. We just crossed into Nevada and I am getting the bug to
start gambling! 375 more miles according to the sign I just saw. I am
going to use my special poker playing tactics on the big boys in one of
those smoke filled rooms at the Silver Legacy Casino, where most guys
will have hats on, sunglasses, and are taking it way to seriously. I am
going to casually announce that I am going to "buy this pot, and
will only be bluffing" and then go all in without seeing the flop.
That is one of my favorites that is a 75% winner if people don’t know
me and I do it before they get to deep. That will set the tone and the
game will not be like any they have played before. I have a budget for
this kind of entertainment this week of $100. I’ll play poker with $40,
then play black jack the rest of the week, maybe three nights this week.
It is not something you can do at Rock Island, and I am not someone who
plays for anything other than the entertainment value. We’ll also go to
the Star Wars movie, and I’ll take Kristine to a show at one of the Casinos.
Last year we saw a show called "Broadway" which was a medly
of all of the big shows. We’ll see what is playing this year that the
kids will like too.

🙂 EJ