Red Rock and "the wild"...

One beautiful Cinco De Mayo, LeAnna and I had the morning off, so...we got up at the crack of dawn and headed over to Red Rock! This was my first experience visiting the area, and was quite impressed!!

These little marquees were staggered right outside the "new and improved" visitor's center.

Kinda cool, eh?

The view :)

..kinda' pretty for a desert

This not-so-little (like 10ft) lizard-statue was just hangin' out in the middle of the center.. yuck.

More of the view

Just a quick-pic of LeAnna? ...look haaaahdah...

I'm betting he had NO IDEA I was taking this of him... :P

Serves him right! For lookin' all molester-like....

I maintain that, were all wildlife as ...stagnant as turtles, I could have a serious career with National Geographic mag.

Thought this little kreeper's tailless state would look all too familiar to my brothers ... :)

So, the REAL reason we went out to Red Rock: check out sites for LeAnna's wedding!!! And...this is the spot! Sooo pretty! Reminds me of South Carolina (not that I've ever been there...but this hopeless romantic is very VERY familiar with Nicholas Spark's books/movies, and therefore I feel experienced and educated enough to pigeonhole this snapshot into a "Carolina's-esque" category...)

Thought I'd share this "beaut" with all of you (which I think may include Clayt...possibly Jen, and Celeste?). This has GOT to be THE. UGLIEST. ROCK. in the world. Does it have measles? a fever? gross! Get it some prescription cream... blah. Gave me the heebie-geebies.. (spelled those two phonetically, figure it out...)

Another wild creep native to the Red Rock area...

LeAnna informed me that they have star gazing groups that go up to Red Rock on certain evenings, and proceeded to demonstrate the use of one of the courtesy-scopes the park supplies...bahaha

This is the view from where she will be getting married! (the date? 10-10-10..how cool is that? :)

All in all, a GREAT start to what ended up being an AMAZING day (we headed into work, had a staff meeting, then I escaped for the afternoon and hit up the pool and celebrated the 11th Cinco De Matteo :)