Just Drive She Said

What turned out to be the longest drive ever started at 8am and wend on and on. 550 miles is a long way. We stopped for greasy KFC (that would come back to haunt) and then went slightly berserk at a Reebok Outlet 40 miles from Las Vegas. In Vegas we went searching for a chocolate factory, nearly ran out of gas (petrol we might call it) in a monster traffic jam, went searching for a cheap buffet dinner (the further we walked the more expensive they got) and eventually ate dinner at 10pm. Riley was real impressed. We got to sleep after midnight (if we had turned into pumpkins it would have been the first vegetable we had seen in weeks) and - you guessed it - had another early morning start. Out at 8am and straight into a Vegas traffic jam, we headed for Death Valley. We had hoped to do it yesterday but the roads were dangerous and closed. We entered Death Valley at 74 degrees and it go up to 93 degrees. Those older generation reading this will understand these figures. It's a very strange place, with salt flats , and rock formations similar to the moon. Oh didn't I tell you, the navigator has me driving so many miles that yesterday we actually did drive past the moon on the way to Vegas. We got back around 5pm and headed to the Adventure Dome but didn't go on any rides. From there I have just four words. All You Can Eat Buffet. Oh the pain. Those big fat Americans have nothing on a ravenous Krause family. Pity the poor people who got in our way on the way to the dessert bar. As we read on the side of the road, "Dessert is not a treat, it's a necessity". Speaking of chocolate, did you know that the energy in one piece of chocolate is the equivalent of the energy it takes to eat another piece. Annette has been eating so much chocolate that she has decided to go on the twelve steps programme. She is now never more than 12 steps from a piece of chocolate. Later we went to the casino and Jeremy wasted money in the kiddies gambling arera (he won a mini pillow) while the grown ups put a whole dollar in the slots. As usual I am now writing this at 11pm while watching sport on tv. Right now Jeremy is standing in the middle of the room, dancing and singing Waterloo. Oh I forgot that we (without Riley) saw a circus show with 2 jugglers. What made it interesting is that they juggled themselves.