11.28.2006
11.27.2006
the handsome family in pioneertown
sounds like a dream come true for mr. zach. the handsome family is playing somewhere somewhat close! in an old cowboy town! the sunday after thanksgiving (we later regretfully learn to be the most traveled day of the year) we pile in the car and jump on the highway towards california. along with everyone else in the world. what was supposed to be a 3 hour drive took 6-7 hours? by the time we got there the sun was pretty much down. but we could still see a little bit. insane rock formations and more joshua trees than i have ever seen. the place was crawling with rabbits! we pulled up to the little lodge. had to pull the manager away from eating his dinner in his apartment in the lodge to give us the key. he told us not to trash the room bc rickie lee jones is checking in to it right when we leave. it is her favorite room he says. we walk on over to pappy and harriets where we run into brett of the handsome family. hanging out in the audience was victoria williams who seemed to be doing well despite her fight with MS. it was a really good show. they played things they normally don't. we had a nice sleep falling asleep to the sound of howling coyotes and got up at 5am to begin our drive home so that i could be at work by 8am. unfortunately our fancy new back way we found that would have been faster had no gas stations. we managed to coast on fumes alone for miles!! amazingly coasted into a gas station and cancelled our road side assistance call. thank goodness. we were in the middle of desert. i literally saw a mirage. i kept asking zach about the lake up ahead. and it was a mirage. so, i ended up being exactly 2 hours late to work. but we made it! was it worth all the hassle? uh . . i think so? we will make a return to pioneertown for sure. a very cool place.
11.23.2006
yay thanksgiving!
zach and i are having a great morning. merle haggard fills the house as the macy's day parade performers on tv dance surprisingly to the beat. my favorite part was watching the ladies and gents with their top hats and ear to ear smiles as merle sings "if i die maybe the pain will go away." zach and i have decided that this is our new thanksgiving tradition. brilliant. the house is clean and we are cooking away. im sure it will all end up looking like zach's signature gorp, but long as it tastes good, i am happy. time to pour some mimosas.
11.22.2006
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11.18.2006
kate's visit
kate and her best friend illeana arrive at the las vegas airport ready for an exciting trip of vegas casinos, clubs, shopping and more. i think it was the "more" part that they were not prepared for. but they were great sports about it all. we picked them up at the airport on the most grizzly day i have ever experienced in vegas. grey, freezing, windy. the forecast said it would be sunny, but the girls brought some incredibly atypical vegas weather with them. we took them by the house and then on to the first adventure. a casino? no. shopping? no. a random fake western town with a lot of weird animals? yep. so we boarded the train on a freezing windy somewhat rainy day to travel a few feet to the western town to watch a hanging. it was riveting. we all tried our best to humor zach and his idea of an amazing day. i will say that we saw some crazy animals. i think my favorite was the black chicken with big furry feet that ran around. zach thought he found his long lost goat he has been wanting forever. he wants to name him luther.
when we got back to the house i was handed a zebra dress and told by kate "you are wearing that". my response? " i thought you were wearing that?" her response? "yeah. i am wearing it, you are wearing it and illeana is wearing it." come to find out that zach had requested that kate go to the clothing store she owns in charleston and pick up three matching dresses that we would all wear out together. i told zach i couldnt do it and he said "take one for the team, trace." so i wore it and it was hilarious.
the next day we went to red rock canyon. an amazing thing happened. i have lived here an entire year. have been to red rock canyon i don't know how many times in search of a burro. never seen one. well, today was the day. we finally met. take a look.
the girls wanted to go to a club so we agreed we would go to ghost bar and the palms. they got dressed up in amazing dresses and to the ghost bar we went. we walked up to the front and the 2nd door man gave kate trouble over her very legit i.d. we went to security, got the i.d.s scanned. gave them wrist bands, went back. the doorman decided he wanted to be a mr mean man for no reason. he said there was no way we were getting in his club so we got the manager. the manager was very nice. took us through another set of security and up the back elevator. the mean doorman had called security on us so he had to take us up a back way. when we exited the elevator the manager took us into the kitchen!! here he gave us a talk about how we had done nothing wrong, apologized for his staff and told us that we were going to have a good time at his club. then he escorted us past all the doormen saying "code 4" (later i learn this means V.I.P.) he takes us up to the bar and tells all the bartenders that we are to drink for free. in addition to that we were getting free drinks left and right from various men in that place. the manager checked on us throughout the night and then asked us if we would like to check out the new club "moon" in the new tower of the palms. he had someone escort us to that club. no cover charges were paid anywhere. at that club we were led to a private table stocked with alcohol and told we could have whatever we wanted. then a man came up to me and told me we had to leave bc the owner's wife thought we were too pretty to sit there. ridiculous!! so we ventured to the brand new playboy bar where kate spent the first amount of money any of us had all night. she got 2 drinks and paid over $40 i think. we then got a text from zach telling kate i had to work and we needed to get home. didnt get to bed till 4am bc we got home and proceeded to chat for a while. it really was quite an entertaining night!
the next day we took the girls shopping and then to top the night off to a suprise visit to meet characters of star trek at the bar quarks. we all shared a smoking (literally) bowl of warp core breach? i would say an fantastic end to a vegas experience.
11.14.2006
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11.04.2006
musical genius
so, my parents gave zach an amazon gift certicate for his bday. my thoughts were that he should save it and use it every time he wanted a new cd or something. but, no he used the whole thing and bought a keyboard. which he is playing right now. i cannot stop laughing. i really can't. he is in heaven. i will post the date of his debut record as soon as it is released.
11.03.2006
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