Welcome Home Kat!

Left for Vegas on the 30th of August and stayed at the Marriott Grande Chateau. http://www.marriott-vacations.com/travel/resorts/marriott-grand-chateau/overview.html. The Marriott is across the side street-Harmon Av- from Planet Hollywood. It's a vaction club that rents out rooms for stays of 3 days or more. I find it better than the Casino hotels for comfort and convenience, yet it's in the center of the Vegas strip.
This is what remains of the Echelon Development in Las Vegas. If you enlarge the picture you will see the power plant built by DCO Energy, a JJS Company. It is just about complete. But, the hotel, shopping center and casino which was to use the power plant has been scrapped. This link will show what was to have been. http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=8612667 The good news for JJS employees in Las Vegas is the 2 new contracts signed for Vegas projects.

This is another Las Vegas monstrosity continuing in spite of the dire prospect of success. It is the City Center Complex on Las Vegas Blvd, across from Planet Hollywood and north of New York, New York Hotel. It will have condos, shopping, casino, etc.
This picture show the NY,NY roller coaster on the hotel roof. The ride dips down through the hotel and casino.

An interesting cloud formation on the way home.(taken from 41,000 feet.)

Arrived home from Vegas on Wednesday the 2nd of Sept. My daughter Kathleen (Kat) was returning home from a 4 year stay in New Zealand and Australia.
Here are my girls-Meghan, Kat, and Erinn

We all headed to the Belmar beach house for the Labor Day weekend and welcome home-family get together. Meg and Joe, I guess had their daughter Cate drive.

I try to make the sunrise when I'm at the beach. I was pleasantly accompanied by my daughter Erinn and her oldest son Tiernan to see this sunrise on the 5th of Sept. We also had the setting full moon in the west on that morning. And I promised Tiernan I'd show a picture of him up and at the beach at 6:15AM on a Saturday morning. He questioned his sanity several times that morning.

We had the opportunity to take a family picture, thanks to the resolve and persistence of the senior family female.

I'm sure these aren't the best of the batch but you get the picture.

It was a great weekend and a good opportunity for Kat to rebond with her family and nieces and nephews-the two youngest she met for the first time.

Welcome Home

PS. We're going job hunting this afternoon.