Tues. Nov 12, 2013 - Clark County Library

Final day in Las Vegas - we had a delicious lunch break

at Max's - Cuisine of the Philippines on Flamingo

 - walking distance from the Library.

 

Then we went home for dinner and to make the motorhome road ready - we are leaving tomorrow.  We are proud of the fact we were in Las Vegas for 16 nights and never once walked on the strip or in the casinos except to get from the parking garage to our conference in Caesars.    We did enjoy downtown Las Vegas for one day, though.  Las Vegas was very good to us!

Sun., Nov. 10, 2013 - Boulder City again

Today we visited a farmers market in a Las Vegas shopping center parking lot - there were food and craft booths - the produce was trucked in from California, but looked really good.  We got greens, staples and tomatoes plus some vegan prepared food from a young couple who wanted to work together so started their own prepared food company.

Next we went back to Lake Mead Nat'l Rec Area for another 5.5 mile walk along the rail path, then to Boulder City for lunch - this time at the Boulder Dam Brew Pub

where they are all about the building of the hoover Dam

 

Next we went back to the Boulder City Library

so I could get a picture

where they are ALSO all about the building of the Hoover Dam.

Looks like the pictures in Grass Valley of the gold miners at work.

Sat. Nov 9, 2013 - Downtown Las Vegas

Today we went downtown - wow!  The Fremont Street experience is quite a happening place. 

today there was a Chili Cook-off so we had lunch

Then took an afternoon work break at Starbucks before going back in the evening for the Veteran's Day Weekend USO entertainment.

There was an overhead electronic billboard built into the roof over 4 city blocks - very patriotic tonight.

With Live entertainment by Gary Sinese and his Lt. Dan Band.

Downtown tinsel town at night.

 

 

Fri. Nov 8, 2013 - Lade Mead National Rec Area

Today we took the morning off to beat the heat and the crowds at

Where we took a 6 mile round trip hike along an historic train track path that was in operation during the building of Hoover Dam in the 30's.

There are five tunnels along the way

and a lovely view of Lake Mead  - bonus!

After the hike, we had lunch in Boulder City just outside the Nat. Rec. Area and then we went to the Boulder City library to work for the rest of the afternoon.  Dang!!!! I forgot to take a picture of the library!!!  We are getting quite a long string of libraries to our travel scoreboard.

 

Mon - Wed Nov 4-6, 2013 - Annual Sleeter Conference

Another really enjoyable and eye-opening experience attending the Sleeter Group Accounting Solutions Conference - this is our 8th year.

  Over the years we have implemented several pieces of software and technology we learned about

 from speakers  ( here is Doug Sleeter)

 

and vendors  (here is Jason in the Right Networks booth)

(and here is Inspector Gadget who tells us about the newest technology)

 

 

at the conference to help us interact with our clients and manage our firm

 

and move to the business model we know have of reaching our clients remotely using the internet when it is appropriate - and we still visit in person when appropriate, of course, because accounting is also a people business.

Sat. Nov 2, 2013 - Red Rock Natural Area

Today we got some breakfast out at Manon - a really good French bakery

before heading out into the wilderness for an afternoon hike

where we had about a 2 mile hike to our lunch break

 

in the shadow of Keystone Thrust. 

A short hike to get out into the desert wilderness and away from the throngs of people who drove the 20 minutes out of Las Vegas to drive the 13 mile scenic loop through Red Rock Canyon National recreation Area.

Happy Halloween 2013

Today was another work day, but this time we stopped at a nearby Starbucks first for a two hours session in the morning, then went to a local park for a picnic lunch.

Then back to the library for a crazy long work day - we missed the downtown Las Vegas Halloween parade ( as bystanders, not participants) but had a really fun dinner out

at the Hofbrauhouse Las Vegas which we had been to before and really enjoy.