Friday December 15th 2017

The weather is starting to cool down a little. The temperature peaked about sixty today. Tomorrow and Sunday are forecast to be cooler and windier.

This afternoon I decided on a whim to go to the Cowboy Christmas Sale. I went once a few years ago. It is a part of the National Finals Rodeo. The south exhibition hall at the Convention Center is a dedicated to all things cowboy. The convention center is about five miles away and should take twenty minutes in Las Vegas traffic. This afternoon it took over forty minutes.

At the convention center there were people in cowboy hats all over the place. There was a steady line of people going in and coming out. What there wasn’t was any place to park. The two nearby lots were full even at a ten dollar charge. I wasn’t expecting to pay ten dollars to park for an event that is free to enter. The northwest lot about half a mile away from the south exhibit hall had room, but I was loosing interest fast. The thought of paying for parking to fight the crowds walking around an exhibit hall full of stuff I’m not going to buy just didn’t appeal to me anymore. I have no use for a saddle or custom shaped cowboy hat.

I turned the car around and fought the traffic back home. I was in the car around two hours driving five miles toward the strip and five miles back by a different route. This was normal traffic in the middle of the afternoon not Christmas traffic.

Well decorated park model trailer.

A couple of palm trees (out of focus) are the center piece of this motor home’s Christmas display.

Walking around the RV park this evening I tried to take a few pictures of the way people have decorated for the holidays. Most of the displays are simple and rather subdued. Many people are using the light projectors to cover the sides of their RVs with twinkling lights or snowflakes. Only a few of the sites are over the top with lights. My Christmas tree and LED lights in the front window are about the right level of decoration for this park.