So Far This Week

13 Sharaf 162 B.E. - January 11 - 12, 2006 A.D.

So far this week the various colors of dawn have been breath taking. The dawn color has ranged from light pink to deep red. In fact there are colors of red in the morning sky that are hard to name. The advantage of getting up before the sun is seeing the sun rise. Las Vegas is nestled in the Rocky Mountains. The whole range of mountains around Las Vegas is call the Muddy Mountains. There is the Spring Mountains and others I can not name. Truth is most of the time the names of the mountains do not seem all that important.

So far this week one Hotel Casino has been imploded. That was the Castaways on Boulder Highway. The Castaways or the Old Show Boat has stood next to Boulder Highway for a long time. We watched the implosion on T.V. It was beautiful. It may seem odd to say the destruction of a building was beautiful, but it was a clear and still day. The dust from the building rose slowly into the air and floated through the neighborhood closest to the Castaways. No one was allowed too close so the best view of the destruction was through the lens of a T.V. camera. An intriguing side note to this: Planes coming into the airport used the Show Boat (Castaways) as a land mark - it was call the Show Boat approach.