One massive Up to date- finally!

I didn't do Dawn Patrol at the Hot Air Balloon Classic this year. I realized that I get a great view of it from my upstairs landing window.
Wouldn't you agree?The ride to Reno was torturous. Cash woke up after only sleeping for half and hour and then screamed (think police siren) the entire way there- roughly four hours. So we were thankful to arrive.
I know this is going to seem lame, but I made all of Cash's outfits have red, white and blue in them on our trip for the holiday. Clay says this one decreases his manliness, but Cash looks adorable in anything and who knows how much longer he'll let me dress him in whatever I want.
Here's Cash shoveling sand to his little heart's content at the Beach at the hotel. We did this twice a day for two days running.
Aaargghh I'm a pirate. Okay, technically I've been told this is a revolutionary war hat but I still think it looks pirate-esque.
Two more who wore the hat during the Second Amendment concert in Virginia City on the 4th of July. Followed by the band playing and Jeannie wearing her flag.


At 7pm we grabbed our chicken dinner (swapping my mint julip for a lemonade) and hopped on the Virginia Truckee (V&T) steam engine train for the moonlight ride. Cash enjoyed it, despite the heart stopping whistle blowing.


We saw some pretty beautiful sites on the ride-




And when we stopped at the end of the tracks for a half an hour I used most of the time to take snapshots of Cash.



After our return train ride we sat in the car and watched the nearby fireworks explode over the mountains. Cash enjoyed them and laughed over the larger ones.
The trip home from Nevada was much better in some and much worse in others. Cash was better behaved and slept through more of it but traffic was beyond horrendous and we were on the road for the better part of seven hours. We are grateful for home in spite of the fun we had.