As most of you may have heard, my son is in Fort AP Hill, in Virginia,at the National BSA Jamboree.
What you may not know, is that there areover 43,000 people (scouts and scouters) there….

Want to see Nicholas?…click on the links below…

1) http://www.flickr.com/photos/boyscoutsofamerica/4838583889/in/set-72157624479953225/
Robert Gates is speaking, Nicholas has an orange hat on, front row, second boy from the right.

2) http://www.bsajamboree.org/
The Jamboree website? Front page? See “A Patriotic First Arena Show”
at the top? move that slider to the right and in the 4th photo,
Nicholas (again in an orange hat) is the middle boy

3) http://www.flickr.com/photos/boyscoutsofamerica/4838570615/in/set-72157624479953225/
Front row, middle boy

4) http://www.flickr.com/photos/boyscoutsofamerica/4837681115/sizes/l/in/set-72157624479953225/
Right side, front row, 9th boy from the left

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ok, just for reference, it’s been 100 or above every day since 23 June 2010.

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Temps the last 4 days in Las Vegas: 113 - 112 - 112 - 113
as in one hundred and thirteen damn degrees.

We don’t do much in the valley at those temperatures. Saturday Scott went to Mt. Charleston and walked about 6 miles at 8,500′. Sunday, he drove towards Pahrump and drove/walked Lovell Canyon rd. (not to be confused w/ Lovell Wash, as mentioned in previous posts)

Tira spent the weekend in air conditioned luxury at some hotel downtown along with a few thousand other teachers from around the country, and attended an exciting lecture/lesson on diversified teaching.

Nicholas departed Sunday for 17 days touring the east coast, and exploring US history; his trip culminates in 6 days of Jamboree 2010, the 100th year anniversary of scouting in the US.

Bet he’s going to learn the difference between a dry heat and a humid heat.

Heather spent all weekend up on Mt. Charleston working.

Melanie spent most of it watching tv… I think.

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Well, no vacation pics but last weekend Nicholas and I pulled the off the top of the motor and took the heads in for a valve job. yup, that was one of my problems… 1 broken valve and 2 burned valves.

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i’m not even sure if i should continue to maintain this area, does anyone even read it? I can tell for sure that no one posts… over a month ago i posted my vacation route and still haven’t said i’m back or it sucked or here’s a great pic.

facebook.

yeah, down with facebook. it’s the death of the small mom and pop corner web site.

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While Ron and Donna were here I took some pictures… click on this link to see them:

http://computercircles.com/hikes/

Read the directions at the top… click on the first thumbnail to see the big images. Click on each image (if so desired) to see the original pic in all it’s glory.Use your back button to return to the menu or picture list.

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In grown tree?  Very weird and just a little frightening…  Click on the picture to get a larger view…. if you look close you can even see where it looks like branches from the dead tree are growing through the other tree… it’s really the other way around of course, the live tree is growing around (assimilating) the dead tree.

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Hello all life forms out there who read this…This is Nicholas Earl Alvar speaking. I realized today that I have not written on this thing in a while so just to give you a quick update on me…~!I have finished my eagle scout work leadership service project…..!~ ( that was a mouthful…well finger full but you get the point)…<– Ha finger pun…It’s punny… ? Ok so anyway I’ll upload a picture of my finished ESWLSP (Short version of the finger full) I built 15 benches up at a campground here….Called Red Rock camp grounds…Fun time a lot of boys showed up and they did work while I told them what to do…I like that it should be that way more often!!! …Going on a canoe trip this weekend…And last weekend I had Order of the Arrow campout for Boy Scouts as well and that went well…(also see the pictures) Long day up on a mountain…Close to the sun and me being well me didn’t put on sunscreen…and got burned I feel smart now…a little crispy to :p SCHOOL ENDS SOON!!! And we are going out as a family on a big family trip…I will be the one to make sure to take pictures and upload them to the website for you guys so you can stay updated…O and HEATHER IS HOME FROM COLLEGE YAY!!!! Well goodnight life forms talk to you later !!!

P.s I am trying to post the pictures but it is not letting me so I will dad to help me with it later so wait on the picture will be coming soon!

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I’m not sure how this will look, but Donna and Ron are going on vacation starting 15 May, and this is their route:

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They are starting at home of course, in Vaughn, and then “B” on the map is their first stop and “C” is next. It’s not first day second day, however. Some places will be one day and some multiple days.

The plan that I care about is when do they arrive in Las Vegas!?! Monday, 24 May.

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