Monday

12.08.08

I don't think I'll go back to Vegas for a long time. I was so sensitive to the atmosphere -- it really depressed me to be constantly surrounded by people who were far from sober. It felt like a film was taken off my eyes and I could see Vegas for what it truly is, not a glittering city filled with excitement and energy, but instead a dirty city filled with lost and broken people. It made me incredibly sad.

Yesterday, I climbed up on my roof with a box of Christmas lights. I don't have a ladder so I pulled myself up from a barstool to the playhouse roof then to the house roof. When I got up, dragging the box behind me, I realized how steep the roof actually was. I could get to the end of it but bending down to the staple lights onto the wooden eave would have been suicidal. So, I figured it would be smarter to put the lights up while on a ladder and decided to climb back down. That's when I realized coming down from the roof without a ladder was a lot harder than climbing up! I ended up jumping to the playhouse roof (after a silent prayer that the roof wouldn't cave in under my weight) and then shimmied down the house window frame. It was quite an adventure. I'm thinking tonight I might borrow my grandparents ladder and try putting up lights the right way.

Giant wheels on our drive to Vegas:


The space ship at Alien Fresh Jerky:


Visiting with Nicole. We met on the last Africa trip and she lives in Vegas...and she's fabulous:


My Mom and I won big at Excalibur's games:

4 comments:

Lori said...

I have several comments:

1) Hey, I like your hat
2) Your hair is getting long (will you totally hate me if I said I really like it short?)
3) Your mom is cute!
4) Winning stuffed animals = FUN!!!

k, that's all. bye

jesika said...

1) I got that hat from a very special, extremely fabulous friend ;)
2) I think I like it short too...but I'm growing it out at least until summertime so I can get a very satisfying chop
3) She's cute and fun and most likely the best mother in the world
4) It was probably some of the most fun I had in Vegas!

cc26 said...

You look so cute in that black dress!!! :)

Carrie said...

You were jumping from rooftops?!?!?!?!?!?! Be careful, Jack wants to meet his Auntie Jesika!

Sorry Vegas wasn't more fun. :(