New photos from our backyard are now up!

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Surprisingly, this is our first Durham Bulls game of 2007. Hopefully we’ll win!

Update: Unfortunately, we lost 4-3, but the weather and cold beer were fine, so it’s hard to complain.

and pup is happy is happy we are back!

We are nearing the end of our Southwest US adventure, and we are finishing in Las Vegas. It is quite the change compared to the national parks and small towns we’ve been through the last few days. We ate in Paris (and gambled a whole dollar!), watched the Bellagio fountans (pictured), and enjoyed a mai-tai in the Imperial Palace. Suffice to say, we’ve had a great time and we’ll be glad to get home tomorrow.

Zion National Park is absolutely beautiful! We got in to the park around 8:45am (after picking up our river hiking gear) and we’ve just left at 6pm, happily exhausted after about 8 miles of hiking. After dinner we drive to Tropic, UT, and tomorrow we visit Bryce Canyon. Whew!

We hit some traffic leaving Las Vegas but the rest of the way was 75 MPH and about an hour north of Vegas, started to look like this:

Stunning!

The lady checking us into our hotel directed us to a wonderful Mexican place in Ancestor Square, Panama Grill. We are full and ready for bed because we have an early day ahead of us!

Leandra bought a ‘beauregard’ sweet potato at the farmer’s market this weekend, and she’s making fresh potato chips out of it now. Yum! This was our favorite appetizer at East/West Bistro in Athens, GA, and we’re happy to have it again.

On our way home today we made a slight detour in order to visit The Homestead in Hot Springs, VA. Riesling had to wait in the car (in the shade of course) while we had lunch and enjoyed the views.

We’ve spent the last two days in the Shenandoah Valley, which is beautiful this time of year. We spent most of yesterday on Skyline Drive. Today we’re making our way back home via some of the beautiful Virginia backroads.

Tonite we’re in Norfolk, VA, attending the last night of the River Rats reunion with Leandra’s dad. Tomorrow we make our way across the state to Harrisonburg, wine tasting along the way. If the weather cooperates we’ll go up and down Skyline drive on Monday and Tuesday.