That's right, I'm in Tonopah visiting my sister for a week!
It's a quaint little town 4 hours north of LasVegas. When I landed in Las Vegas it was 102 at 10pm. Not a town I would live in!!
Tonopah, however, has weather I can live with - 50's during the night and 9o's during the day! My sister and I toured the Silver Mine Park. Tonopah was a booming metropolis of 7000 people with 50 saloons in the 1930's due to the silver some man discovered in the 1900's. It's now a town of 2800...not sure how many saloons!
It's been great fun so far and I'm looking forward to visiting Virgina City with her this weekend. I guess that's where they filmed Bonanza!
In other parts of my life - I am deeply grieving with a family whose young son has leukemia and her mom just passed away from brain cancer. Once you have been affected by cancer, a whole other world opens up to you. Not necessarily one you want opened.I pray daily for families, doctors, nurses, patients, the list goes on. Prayer is powerful but sometimes you feel helpless when that is all you can do.
We watched "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" last night...we had both heard good things about it not knowing how it ended. Quite a sad one...but a lesson to be learned in humanity.
Camp Mak-A-Dream is going on right now in Montana. Ethan went to that camp for 3 summers. Loved it! And they loved him. We sent some ashes out there to be spread too. Just missing my boy...
Thoroughly enjoyed my retreat to St. Lazare's and love being focused on Christ for 2 days. It's such an incredible experience when you walk so closely with Him. It's really hard to leave St. Lazare's for me because I know no matter how hard I try...I will lose that closeness when I get back to the "real world".
