My heart is just aching today, and I have the hugest lump in my throat. My friend is not doing well, and it looks like the end is fast approaching. It’s just so sad for her family and all her friends. It’s hard trying to hold it together at work, but I’m staying strong.
So remember when I wrote about Mr. Happiness last week? Well I find myself driving by there everyday this week, so I can see him and feel happy. I took some of my own pictures yesterday. One came out pretty blurry though, but I’ll still post it here. He’s just so happy.

Notice the electric keyboard with no electricity? I guess he plays it and sings, and hears his own music in his head. Thanks for sharing your Happiness.

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Mr. Happiness, Las Vegas, Nevada

I’ve heard about Mr. Happiness before, but I’ve never had the pleasure of seeing him until today. I was driving to the auto parts store on my lunch hour to get wiper blades for our cars, and there he was standing on the street corner. A big guy wearing a suit, with big funny rimmed glasses on, playing an electric guitar (that wasn’t plugged in), and spanking his own ass. He was smiling and waving at everyone and he made me laugh out loud, and smile back.

Source: Beyond Neon

Here is a really good interview with Mr. Happiness explaining why he does this, and where he came from. He seems like a really neat person.

Mr. Happiness, Las Vegas, Nevada

Traffic was nuts this morning coming into work. I don’t know why I ever think it will be different, but sometimes I just wish it wouldn’t be stop and go the whole way here. I’d prefer to do 65 MPH on the freeway, not 45. But I’m here, and I made it.

After our trip to the crazy cowboy place on Sunday we went to the Bass Pro Shop. WOW! What an amazing store. I have never seen so many fishing poles in one place in all my life. That place is massive and there was so much to look at. From all the camping equipment, the guns, and the boats, to the real animals they have stuffed all over. They even had a giraffe. It’s a very cool store, and I suggest you check it out if you have one by you.

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So where were we? Oh yes, a ghost town and out of place animals. Once we came out of Red Rock Canyon, we drove towards Blue Diamond Road because we wanted to stop at the Bass Pro Shop on the way home. We noticed this cool looking entrance on a road off to the right. It said, welcome to Bonnie Springs. We thought, what the hell, so we turned down the road.

At the entrance we were greeted by a dirty cowboy who looked like he smoked crack right before we drove up. I mean cowboys are generally dirty people, but I don’t think there was much crack smoking on Brokeback mountain. He freaked us out, but we still gave him the $20 entrance fee to go in and see what this place was all about.

Both of us kind of imagined it to be like Ghost Town at Knott’s Berry Farm in Southern California. You know, an old western town that looked cool but had all the amenities of a modern city, behind the facade. It wasn’t, AT ALL. It was a run down, dirty looking, nothing open, waste of desert space.

And really, the petting zoo!!?? OMGosh…that was a rough one. Animals from all over the world in the middle of the desert, hot, smelly and miserable looking. They all had food, water, and shelter from the sun, but how well can a Canadian Lynx feel in the 110 degree desert? How about deer? We don’t have deer in Southern Nevada! Hell we have nothing in the desert but scorpions, desert tortoise, and the occasional snake. I was in shock, and I even broke down when I saw a wolf that looked EXACLTY like my dog Mandy I had when I was growing up. She was hot and miserable looking, and I had just had enough.

We stopped at the restaurant/bar on the way out to have a beer. We were both hungry, but neither one of us could fathom eating at the restaurant. We just kept thinking of the dirty animal conditions, plus the bartender had the personality of a house plant. I can hardly blame him though. Imagine his call home when he told his family that he was a bartender at Bonnie Springs after moving to Las Vegas. Of all the places he could be serving up drinks, and there he was. HA! Poor guy. I felt bad for him.

Needless to say, we have no plans of ever returning to this waste of desert space. I’d actually like to completely forget we ever went there, but the eyes of those hot and miserable animals will haunt me forever. I know it.

We did take one picture though. There was a plywood burro that had a sign that said “photo memory opportunity” so we had to take a picture. The fake smile tells all. You know when they say that there is more to do in Vegas than gamble? They didn’t mean Bonnie Springs. Trust me.

Bonnie Springs, Nevada, PETA, desert

We chilled at home Saturday night which was a good thing. We were well rested to hit the road Sunday, and check out some places we’ve never been. We decided to take a drive to Red Rock Canyon and take a look around, and check out the trail heads. I still don’t have good hiking shoes, so we didn’t do any hikes that required more than just walking on flat surfaces. Our first stop was Canyon Springs. We hiked around and took some pictures of the storm coming in. We heard a lot of thunder, and we saw lightening, but we never got any rain.

Our next drive was the 13 mile loop that goes all through the canyon. We stopped at the different look out points and enjoyed the scenery.

Michael was trying to take pictures of me, but I wasn’t in the mood (for some reason) of having pictures taken of me, so I acted like a child…LOL! We got a good laugh about how this picture turned out. LOL! I really wasn’t mad like I look in that first picture. I was trying to appear mad. I think I met my goal. I look so angry!

The weather ended up being really nice, even though the threatening storm that seemed to be approaching never actually made it to where we were. It was so hot that we really wanted it to rain on us, at least just a little bit to cool us off. Speaking of heat. I just heard on Fox News that it is 108 in the Hollywood Hills today. DAMN! That is super hot for So Cal! I don’t think we ever had temps that high when we lived there.

We drove through the rest of the canyon, and soon found ourselves in some type of twilight zone situation. It’s so odd, that it clearly deserves a post of it’s own. I just have to figure out how to write about it to give it the justice it deserves. Just keep this in mind. It involves a ghost town, and a lot of out of place animals.