Fall I love Fall

 Things I love about fall

 All the colors ( reds, yellows, oranges, and a touch of green)

 It starts getting dark sooner (I just don't feel I have to stay up so long)

 The cooler evenings

 Harvest (my garden and the fields)

Wiener roast on the weekends

and friends

If you have ever been to Las Vegas or plan on going

The one must on your list is the ever changing

garden at the Bellegio and what the heck check out the fountains they are pretty cool especially at night

these pictures were taken with Mr. Sugars phone the only pictures from our trip

These are the floral arrangment at the check in counter

there are 12 of these large arrangments

 I was hoping you would be able to see the beautiful back drop at the check in counter a little  better

 As you walk into the garden this large cornacopia greets you

every pumpkin and goard is real

the orange pumpkin in the background is orange carnations

 These 5 foot corn are amazing, they are made up of

indian corn with all those beautiful colors I am not sure what the husk were made of

 in the center of the garden they had three horses all made from live plants the main and tail were grasses  of some kind

 These pumkins weighed in at over 800 pound

some were in the 900 area they had little signs to let you know

the weight

This tree with a face talkes to you as you walked by it is so

amazing to see what money can buy you

this apple sitting in the grass is red roses all alive and looking beautiful

My best friend from high school now lives in Las Vegas and a friend of hers works for the Belligio, and told me the floors drop down so they can setup, all except the outer flowers they are added after to complete the display

once that season is up and wonderful they immediately start growing for the next.
I have had the good fortune to see it for christmas,
chinese new year, summer and now fall

I wish my decorations for the seasons compared
I will show you mine this week

What did you do this weekend

Good weedend, maybe because I was at home 

caught up on the laundry

mopped all my floors

set up all my fall(more on that this week)

and went fishing with Benny and Davey

Mr Sugar was away this week at meetings and on his way home stoped at the

Bass Pro Shop

he bought Benny and new pink fishing rod

and Davie a Tinker Bell rod

all night friday day would cast over the stair railing and reel up the little rubber fish that came with the rod

finally Papa Sugar

took her to the lake

This little wonder fished for about 45 min and then lost interest

she never caught a fish

Hope what ever you did this weekend it was memorable

(disclaimer)

 I know I am a horrible speller so just laugh with me not at me

my husband just likes to point this out

Back in Canada

Home again Home again

or something like that

Here is the bad news

I took 200 pictures and lost them all

mostley because I don't know how to run my camera

So here goes we flew into Las Vegas

thurs september 8th

we flew out of Kalispell MT and the

plane was delayed by three hours

we were suppose to be in at 6:30 arrived at 9:30

by the time we picked up the rental Jeep

and arrived at the hotel at 11:00

ya we had supper and went to bed

We stayed at the Rio for our first time

it was very nice the rooms were big the pool was great

but off the strip, not a big deal for us we always rent a car but

a pain if you always have to be catching a shuttle

We spent the weekend with friends the flew in friday

Saturday I woke up we went for breakfast and by noon I

had full blowen FLU

slept til the next morning

Monday we got on the road early for L.A.

we stayed close to Venice Beach

Monday night we went down to east Venice and walked the peir

and had supper at the nicest restraunt

(insert missing picture her)

you will have to imagine as I tell you

This seaside restraunt was Italian

the front of the building was just that when you walked

throught the door you right outside again

it was packed with people, good sign

and lamp heaters set amoung the tables

it was a bit chilli from the ocean

the food was amazing, especially the garlic buds

they were brought to the table hot every ten minutes

the pasta was excellent and half way into the meal

a man delivered sheet music of thats amoire, two minutes

later the music started and every single person in the restraunt

began to sing. All then staff then walked around singing and clinking glasses with each table

it was actually quite romantic

The next morning we went to the fabric district in L.A.

this was so over whelming

there is fabric every where

some of it is good quality and some is crap

the one thing we learned is the price is never the price

it was kind of like beinging in mexico

as soon as you start to walk away the price came down,

one guy told us he was short in the bank, my husband jumped on that one, the guy is shorter now.

The funny part is we got everything for amazing prices, but now we had to get it home on the plane and we have not even been to the bike show which is what we came for

Wednesday was the best day of the trip, we drove down to east Venice parked the jeep, and rented bikes,

peddle bikes,

yes we own a bike shop but that does not mean we ride them very much, so off we go

Venice Beach is a crazy place you see all kinds

like this guy

my husband had a conversation with him and he sounds very educated

he was selling T shirts the day we saw him

From Venice we rode down to Santa Monica the pier there is really cool

and then we rode into Malibu and then back

it took us 6 hours we did sit and people watch at Santa Monica

for about and hour

The one thing that was hard for me was the residentially challenged

they are every where



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took a long long break

But I am back

I have been completely overwhelmed and did not know where to start

at the begining(first of July)

the middle or from(thunder in the vally)

this day forward(aug 31st)

Well for some of you this will be the first day for

 BACK TO SCHOOL

Does this make you want to start singing the stapels commercial

It's the most wonderful time of the year

 (BACK TO SCHOOL)

Since my youngest is 15 and in TENTH Grade it doesn't make any difference to me

She can write her name on her own pencil

Well there should be some excitement to report next week as we are off to the bike show in Las Vegas

Trust me I will be sleeping

and we are ziping down to L.A. for three days

I will bring you pictures and some fun

give aways when i get home

Here is a quick peak at the first of July

My oldest daughtert Nisa ( not married) me with not tan

and my sister in law(youngest brother)

This is the start to our Parade

RCMP

Can you see all the people

more later