Tatooine or Bust...

During our last visit to St. George with the boys we decided to take a drive over to Las Vegas. We had promised the boys we would go to an authentic Las Vegas Buffett after they had seen a show highlighting one. Yep, those boys are easy to please. Just fill em up with food. Anyway, we left early with the intentions of touring around the city a bit. Showing the boys their old stomping grounds...old schools, old apartments, churches, etc. That didn't take nearly as much time as was planned and we didn't really want to spend the day walking the strip(aka spending money on overpriced things), so we decided to take a little road trip. Death Valley in July anyone???? Yep, we took a little excursion to Death Valley in the middle of July. The selling point for the boys was that it's where the scenes for Star Wars were filmed that depict the fictional planet Tatooine. The home planet of Luke and Anaken Skywalker. Obviously it wasn't too hard to sell them on that idea condisering they eat, drink and dream Star Wars. What they didn't anticipate was the heat. We watched the temperature rise steadily as we drove farther and farther into the valley. It became a game. How hot would it get? 122degrees!!! Yes my friends, it was a hundred and twenty two degrees outside of the car. I don't think the boys even had a vision of what that feels like. We eventually stopped at Bad Water to get out and check things out a bit. This is where I would insert a photo of us melting, but the camera melted too. It felt as if we were sitting in a furnace. Needless to say, we didn't hike around for long. The boys enjoyed seeing the filming location of their favorite movie and it was a nice drive. I just don't suggest doing it in July.

One a side note...when I walked into the windowless restrooms it felt exactly like sauna at Hannah's house. We don't need no stinkin' Finnish sauna...we got death valley, YEAH!