For the past 8 years, dad and some of the family have been asked to go down to Las Vegas where dad's cousin, Mark, puts on a Freedom Fest. There are speakers from all over that come to speak about different topics (mostly political) and dad records them, burns them to cd's and sells them from Mark. Dan and I have never had the chance to go and help until this year. We had so much fun! Dad, Laurel, Sam, Missy and Karen came along. We all had our certain duties. Karen and I ran the front counter...we were good at getting people's attention at our booth. Hahahahaha! Dan was the Computer Tech Support, Dad edited all the speaches, Missy worked on putting the speeches onto the website and Laurel (the queen of Freedom Fest and dad's right hand), with the help of her hubby, Sam, burned all the cd's and made labels and made sure everything was organized. Mom, stayed at home (but packed us lots of yummy food so we didn't have to eat every meal out) and with the help of Jenny, Amy and Heidi, watched all the grandkids. Bless their hearts! But it was very worth it and I'm hoping to go again next year.
One of the booth's was handing out free blow up guitars and flamingos. We scored one of each for all of our kids. Nothing like bringing home free stuff!
This was mine and Dan's first time on the Vegas strip together. We drove through there on our honeymoon but never went on the strip. It was dirty and trashy like normal, but once we got inside of some of the places it was nice.
One of the big speakers was Steve Forbes. He'd recently had neck surgery so that's why he has the neck brace. My Uncle Paul is holding Grandpa's book, "The 5,000 Year Leap" which has become very popular the past coupele of years even though the book is 30 years old.
Our banquet dinner on the last day. Delicious food!!! The painting at the top, that girl painted in just a few minutes. It was impressive!
