Water and Fire

I still have a bit to catch up on from when Kyle was here. Since today is gray and gloomy feeling (although still hot) I decided to brighten it up a bit with a Lake Mead post...
It was a perfect day, at that temperature where you can't even hardly feel the air, it's just right. Dad started out driving...

then Captain Kyle took over.

Our first stop was to see the Hoover Dam from the lake side.

The water was so calm it was like boating on glass! Dad regreted not bringing his ski out.

But we did tube...

We left just as the gray clouds were coming in. The wind picked up as we pulled the boat out and we got a sprinkle of our first rain in a few months.
I call this move this flamingo ballet. It's very effective in maintaining balance.

After the lake Kyle and I went for a romantic dinner at Red Robin. This was interrupted by Dad calling to tell us about our neighbor's house, which was on fire. (Dads will do anything to interrupt romantic dates.)
We drove home to find the fire basically put out. The street was blocked off and looked like this (apparently the Henderson fire department didn't have anything else to do all night because they sent out EVERYone) :

The house was being rented and one of the renters was inside sleeping. When he didn't respond to the banging on the door, the firemen broke down the whole garage door to get in. (The fire was in the garage.) I wouldn't recommend this method for getting up in the morning, even though alarm clocks can be very annoying.

While I was snapping away with my camera, Kyle used to the opportunity to broaden his understanding of the female mind and asked what exactly it is about firemen that so attracts women to the point where they have whole calendars devoted to them? We speculated on this for awhile but couldn't really come up with a solid answer... (The female mind remains a mystery to man because we women probably don't understand it most of the time, either.)