In honor of the ever so popular and entertaining Throwback Thursday trend, I'd like to take you back to where 2014 all began.
I was winding down a holiday trip in Las Vegas with Mi Amor (who is now living there for work) when we ushered in 2014. Unlike most recent years past, though, I decided to make a slight change: For once, I wanted to start the New Year utterly refreshed, and therefore, decided to forego the usual New Year's Eve shenanigans. (And in hindsight, it was one of the best decisions I could have made to start out 2014!) Instead of going to the Las Vegas Boulevard strip, we opted to get dressed up, enjoy a delicious home-cooked meal in the apartment, sip champagne, watch the midnight fireworks from the rooftop, and celebrate with our own 3 ft sparklers!
Aside from enjoying the chill evening and showcasing our sparkler creativity, I had one other main stipulation for the New Year: I wanted to see the first sunrise of 2014.
...As you can imagine and calculate, that left very little room for sleep in between, but nonetheless, Mi Amor obliged and we set our alarm for 4:45.
Groggy and barely awake after maybe 2 hours of sleep, we set out on the Harley into the cool desert morning and headed to Red Rock in the dark of the night. (And FYI: The Kings of Leon song is true: It is cold in the desert! If the coffee didn't wake us up, the bike ride surely did!)
After a bit of Google-ing, we decided the best viewpoint was from the top of the Red Rocks Casino parking garage. When we set up shop there, you could just start the see the horizon beyond downtown Vegas start to lighten up.
As we took it all in from all directions over the next hour, we saw the colors of the sky and landscape transform before our eyes.
As you can see, maximum sunrise-age was achieved! And we may be been as frozen as icicles from our heads to our toes by the time we got home, but it was all so worth it! There's no other way I'd rather have started the year!
Hope yours got off to just as fantastic of a start!
I was winding down a holiday trip in Las Vegas with Mi Amor (who is now living there for work) when we ushered in 2014. Unlike most recent years past, though, I decided to make a slight change: For once, I wanted to start the New Year utterly refreshed, and therefore, decided to forego the usual New Year's Eve shenanigans. (And in hindsight, it was one of the best decisions I could have made to start out 2014!) Instead of going to the Las Vegas Boulevard strip, we opted to get dressed up, enjoy a delicious home-cooked meal in the apartment, sip champagne, watch the midnight fireworks from the rooftop, and celebrate with our own 3 ft sparklers!
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| Can you see the backwards 2014? |
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| Or how bout his "Juan"? |
Aside from enjoying the chill evening and showcasing our sparkler creativity, I had one other main stipulation for the New Year: I wanted to see the first sunrise of 2014.
...As you can imagine and calculate, that left very little room for sleep in between, but nonetheless, Mi Amor obliged and we set our alarm for 4:45.
Groggy and barely awake after maybe 2 hours of sleep, we set out on the Harley into the cool desert morning and headed to Red Rock in the dark of the night. (And FYI: The Kings of Leon song is true: It is cold in the desert! If the coffee didn't wake us up, the bike ride surely did!)
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| The Strip was dead when we set out. |
After a bit of Google-ing, we decided the best viewpoint was from the top of the Red Rocks Casino parking garage. When we set up shop there, you could just start the see the horizon beyond downtown Vegas start to lighten up.
As we took it all in from all directions over the next hour, we saw the colors of the sky and landscape transform before our eyes.
Hope yours got off to just as fantastic of a start!
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