Walk in the Glow of Each Other's Majestic Presence

gilana and I just had a lovely mid-winter getaway to Las Vegas! She brought her camera (mine was at home recording daily_alice, which I’ll update soon, for all the baby-junkies out there who are jonesin’) and you can check out the full gallery here or click on any of the thumbnails below for larger versions of specific images.

We did so much every day that I think I’ll do this by category instead of chronology.

( Transportation )

( Weather )


( Hotel(s) )

( Shows )

( Attractions )

( Shopping )

( Food )

Overall This was a really nice trip. Gilly and I turn out to be good travel partners—we have similar interests, both are willing to take the lead and make decisions and roll with whatever actually happens, and we communicate well about what we need.

This was my first time away from Alice and it was strange not to see someone I’ve spent time with every day for the past two years, but at the same time nice to have a break and to know that I can go away if I need or want to. She asked about me and missed me and seemed very glad to have me back today, but never got upset about my being gone, which is excellent. Poor Jason was sick as a dog the whole time I was gone—shades of his trip to Toronto last year, when I got summer flu—but the family and muffyjo were happy to help him through, as they do me.

Vegas is a great place for a short trip. After a few days the constant stimulus begins to be wearing—if I stayed longer, I’d definitely spend a day out at the Hoover Dam or the Grand Canyon, or just laze around the hotel pool for an afternoon—but it is a great place to be a tourist. There are so many nifty things and beautiful uses of glass and light and interesting architectural features and new uses of technology and outrageously tacky bits that just wandering around is an entertainment all by itself.

( Oh, right! Gambling )

Here's a really good photo album of bookly's trip to Nam Tso Lake, complete with yaks!

bookly has posted another album of photos, this one of the Potala (the former winter residence of the Dalai Lama) at night. Some are a little blurry, but the color of the sky is amazing and they're nifty to see.

She's missing everyone, especially since China blocks LJ, so she can't read or post.

bookly said I could share her photos from Lhasa with y'all. Enjoy!

Congratulations to gilana and the rest of the Somerville Community Chorus on a fun show!



Only now I have "Just Like Before" stuck in my head...

EDIT: No, that's not all of them, just Gilly and the other members of the trio for "The Rose"

For those of you who've expressed interest, I've uploaded a huge batch of photos from one of the performances of The Unexpected Guest .

I just got email from someone wanting to use this photo from my website in a school project. Which got me to go look at it and think it was a pretty cool photo (and a lovely hallway) and that I would share. Our room, by the way, was the one at the end of the hall.