Zion Day 15

ViVi and I stayed at the Stratosphere hotel in Vegas last night, it was a good thing we had booked a room because her flight was 2 ½ hours late and it was 10pm before she finally got on the ground. That pretty much foiled our plans of a nice dinner, most the restaurants close up at 10:30pm so we were left with a pizza stand and overpriced pizza, 11 bucks for two slices; you really have to look for the bargains in Vegas anymore.

We didn’t spend much time in the city; I wanted to get some photos of a billboard project I worked on for Springs Preserve here in Sin City. We found it but it is just about impossible to get good shots of it because it sits on a wall of a major highway. We got these at 60 mph down the highway.

 I carved these out of Styrofoam and painted them. The Gila monster is 60 ft nose to tail. The roadrunner is 30 feet beak to tail, and there is fox I didn’t get a good shot of but he is 25 ft tall. 

I sculpted these with Jerry Small of Small Creations, who ironically creates very large 3D

Billboards for a living; he creates all the cows for the Chick-fil-a’ billboards. These are the only shots we could get since we never saw it put together and installed, they were too big to set up in his workshop.

On the return to Zion the clouds were clearing from a rainstorm and the sun was giving us a tremendous welcome on the cliffs as we neared the Park.

I hope to hike to the Top of Angels Landing tomorrow, but right now it’s raining, hopefully it will clear up.

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