However, I am having a good time. We had dinner last night at a fabulous and very veggie-friendly Indian/Tibetan restaurant, and this morning we went a little crazy in Whole Foods, picking up ingredients for the weekend's dinners as well as some odd snacks that caught our fancy (whole fried okra sticks?).
We just got back from a nice jaunt outside of the city, into the mountains by Red Rock Canyon, to Bonnie Springs Ranch. It's like a tiny little Wild-West-themed amusement park, but without the rides and with a small-gauge railroad and a completely cheesy "general store," which features melodramas every half-hour.
The real draw, though, is the petting zoo, which features all sorts of animals from the area and beyond:
The zoo was founded by Bonnie sometime in the '50s, and since she's developed a reputation for adopting strange strays, her cages have filled up with exotic chickens, albino peacocks, angora rabbits, ravens, tame coyotes, and some lamb-sized critters that looked like oversized guinea pigs. (I think they were capybaras, but I didn't pay to get into the petting zoo proper so I couldn't read the sign.)
There was even a wild burro on the road on our way up, begging for food from the passing cars:
Oddly (for Vegas), it had been raining for a few days before we arrived. All of the springs at the ranch were running, and the cloud formations over the red rocks were spectacularly dramatic:
Still to come: maitake mushrooms for dinner, celebrating Grandmom's birthday, and shopping for a new car (sigh).
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