A Recollection of John Dyck

Early this morning the entire Dyck family headed out on their journey's back to Manitoba.  It was much earlier than I ever get up so we did hugs and everything last night.  Julie and Ryan will be catching an early flight out of Las Vegas to head back to Manitoba after a very short vacation here.  This is the first time we have met Ryan and it was great to spend a little time getting to know him.  For all its worth Julie, he certainly gets our stamp of approval.  We loved sharing a little time with Julie as well.

Pat and Harold will drop the kids off at the airport and then they will continue on to Manitoba to attend Harold's fathers funeral on Thursday April 5.  They are driving home in their pickup truck which they used to pull their 5er before they traded for the motor home.  They will then fly back here and they can then both ride back home at a slower pace in their motor home.  We will pick them up from the airport on Friday.

A New Water Pump

The water pump on the Jeep has been leaking a little bit for quite a while now and I had bought a new one way back in Texas so I figured maybe it was time to change it.  A couple days ago I poured some radiator flush in the system to give it a good cleaning so it has had time to work.  It was supposed to be a hot day today, so I decided to pull the Jeep under the awning and into Green's Garage to be in the shade.  If you remember a while ago, Harold made a couple of "snipes" for us out of Kyra's broken lawn chair.  Well this was the perfect time to get out the snipe and put it to good use on the tension pulley of the serpentine belt.  It worked perfectly.

Hoover Dam and Freemont Street

The boys decided that we should tour Hoover Dam today.  Harold and I have been there before but it was a new experience for Ryan and Ed.  We headed out in the morning because this afternoon the girls have a plan for us.  The first stop on the way was to have a look down on the dam from the new bridge.  It is quite an experience to walk across it so high up in the air.  When Harold and I were here in 2010 the bridge was in the construction stage and the center section had not been built yet.  It was just some concrete sticking out of the east and west walls of the Canyon.

How we saw it in 2010

A New Way to Haul Water

We started out as usual with a morning Happy Hour.  Our neighbours even came to join us this morning.  They told us all about their plan for driving up the Dempster Highway all the way to the Arctic Ocean this summer.  That would be a trip of a lifetime for sure.

Now that Julie is here we have an event planner to help us keep our lives on the straight and narrow.  Today her friend Ryan is going to fly into Vegas and join us for a few days so she spent a few minutes getting us prepared for when they return from picking him up.

Charlie gets the Royal Treatment

We have some things to do in town today and one of them is to get Charlie a bath.  He is getting pretty scruffy looking after a winter in the desert so we decided to splurge and get him a trim and a pedicure.

I loved the name of the grooming place...The Soggy Paw.....

They have a self wash area where for $15 bucks you can wash your own dog, or for $45 bucks you can get the full meal deal.  We think Charlie deserves nothing but the best.