....I spent 67 hours inside this Reno Hotel/Casino competing on Weber State's LEED team in the ASC Student Competition:
We turned one of our rooms into a makeshift conference room and spent 21 hours on the problem statements, slept for 3 hours, then presented to the judges:
We were competing against a number of great schools, and I was so confident that we wouldn't place, that I scheduled a flight out of town before the awards were even presented. I should have taken a later flight - I got a text while at the TSA checkpoint at Reno-Tahoe airport that we'd won first place.
I met Tori and the kids in St. George on Saturday. We planned a weekend of enjoying sunny weather and attending the parade of homes. The weather was slightly worse than we'd hoped for:
Have you ever heard of Jacob Hamblin? We went to the Jacob Hamblin home on Sunday and learned all about him.
After a day of touring homes, Rachel was spent and we went to a family "fun" center on Monday. Nearly half of the arcade machines were broken, but she did hit the jackpot on one and won 200 tickets.
We rode the bumper boats, but we were the only ones there, so there was nobody to bump into. There were a few more people in the go-karts:
It was a nice short trip, and the weather was much worse up north, so I suppose it was a comparative 'escape' from winter, just not quite as warm as we would have liked.
