Kirk&Whitney

We love the dunes and right after Vegas we set off for another sandy stay! We went with Aaron, Camille, Tanner, Kenzie, Philip and his gf Kayla! We spent 2 dusty days riding and hanging out! Tanner is good at forgetting things so after we got there he realized he forgot food (he told the others not to worry he's provide food so no one but Kirk and I had anything), helmets, gas, and a few other things! So him and Kenzie drove to the nearest town to Walmart and were gone for a few hours and came back with bike helmets! haha Oh Tanner...

Right after the first ride the guys took Philip was having a problem with his bike! His chain was kind of loose so the guys started working on it and made it worse! Philip was so bummed he thought he wasnt going to get to ride but they improvised and came up with a fix!

Philip and Kayla

One of Tanner's quads was acting up and kept quitting by Comp Hill and needed a pull start a couple of times! Kirk says the dunes are always interesting when Tanner is there!

We saw a few of these men flying around in the sky!

Kayla didnt bring anything to ride so when the guys were off riding I would take her on rides in the Rhino! Kirk and I went on a long ride on the other side of the dunes and relaxed under a ramada where this guy was telling us all about his travels around the United States! We down some huge dunes...I scream sometimes but it was so fun!

Since it was Sunday we thought we'd do a little spiritual experience! One of my goals is to see all the temples in the whole world! All 145 of them! The temple was pretty close by so we made our way over there! It was pretty quiet since it was up on a big hill far from all the action and closed since it was Sunday!

This was the view from the temple grounds down to the strip

After the temple, we drove around looking for lunch! We had finally decided on Pizza Hut and found one but it was only take out...so we searched again and found a Pizza Hut restaurant! By that time we were all starving! Then we went back to the strip to do some more looking around!

This lady was a statue...but a real life statue who just stands there for ever and freaks you out when she moves to a slightly different position! I dont think I could do a job like that...maybe the first hour!

Kirk bought me a strawberry-banana skewer covered in

chocolate at the Ghiradelli's store...mmm SO good!

My mom loves the wax figure museums so we went to the Madame Tassaud's museum! They were almost creepy cause they were so life like...felt like people were staring at you from all sides!

Half way through we walked into the haunted house area! I had no idea what was going on but right away I saw this zombie guy standing to the left behind a curtain...I heard someone say "he's real!" and I immediately booked it to the other side of the room!! He started chasing me yelling "wait! come back!" I practically had a heart attack and ran into the next gallery room! Needless to say my mom and I skipped the haunted house!

Sometimes were on Jerry Springer...no big deal!

Me and Alyn with Lady Gaga and Kirk with Prince

(Why does my sister always look so cute??)

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A pretty cool fish tank

We got ice cream then waited for this Greek Gods show to start! None of us had ever seen it but it was interesting! They were fake people but real fire and water! haha

After walking around for a while we went and waited with tons of other people to see the show on the ship at Treasure Island! The white ship had the girls or "Sirens" on it and another ship from behind us brought the guy pirates! The story was a musical where the Sirens had attracted one of the pirates and they were trying to take him down by seduces him! It was racier than we thought it was going to be!

Once the show ended it was getting dark and we were hungry so we split up, they went to find food and Kirk and I went into a casino and found a seafood restaurant! We knew that's what we wanted for our anniversary dinner before we even left for Vegas! We found the Seafood Shack and put our name down for a table! Meanwhile we looked around the casino and even played a bit! We spent $1 and won absolutely nothing...we didnt even know how the machine worked! haha

We finally got a table and ordered an appetizer first! Kirk knows I like shrimp so we got a shrimp basket that literally only had 6 pieces in it!

Then we ordered and our meal came! It looked so good! It took us a while to break it open and eat through it! It's fun to crack it open and act like savage animals to dig the meat out with your teeth! Probably the only meal that's ok to do that!

We all met back up after dinner and drove to a different part of the strip...Fremont street! The original strip! It was ooold but pretty cool to see! It was crowded also but most of the people were there to see a country band that was playing on stage, inside the smaller casinos or looking up at the GIANT screen above the street! It was amazing to see such a huge screen, it played so many different things along with the music and had advertisements!

There was a zip line on one end! It was a couple stories high and I was a little nervous (im not a fan of heights) and the long wait didnt help the anticipation!