Dear family and friends,

We took a little trip in January.  Some of Kim's golfing buddies from Idaho invited him to a golf tournament in Southern Nevada sponsered by the Idaho Golf Association.  So we climbed on a plane and flew into Las Vegas.  Got a ride to Primm, Nevada which is right on the Nevada/California border.  The golf course is actually 5 miles south of Primm in California.  We then rented a car and drove to Quartzsite and spent the day with Mom and Farrell.  Went on down to Yuma for a few hours then drove to Oro Valley, just north of Tucson, to spend a couple of days with Steve and his wife Marsha.  Did another round of golf there. 

Here they are at Primm Golf Course.  Norm Jensen, Kim and Steve Blackhurst.  These guys have been so supportive of Kim with his ALS.  Kim developed a heel spur on the way and played three days of golf in pain.  We found his some crutches for the last day. But he is still smiling. California mountains in the background.  We miss mountains in Brownsville.  The highest mountain is a pile of dirt when someone is excavating.

This is a photo taken from a cross walk on the 4th floor of the resort we stayed in at Primm.  The building was built as a kind of hexigon and this is the center of the resort.  There is a pool hiding behind the big tree.  There is an outlet mall attached to the building (past the casino.  Of course, there is a casona, it is Nevada.)  What is interesting is that one side of the mall charges California tax and the other side of the mall charges Nevada tax becuase the state line runs right through the building.

Now for the rest of  Nevada.  I turned around from the last picture and took this one.  Desert, for sure.

These are Kim's Brownsville golfing buddies.  Gary Holmes in the yellow shirt and Harold in the green.  Gary joined the church when were were here last spring. The hat Kim has on was made in Peru.  Beautiful hat and given to him by Rosy, Gary's wife.