We made it to Vegas! Today saw a visit to the Hoover Dam and the tour down into the guts. You can actually feel the raw power of the water flowing through the pipes. Its an incredible feat of engineering. Oddly enough we felt more vertigo looking over the edge at the Hoover Dam than we did looking over the cliffs at the Grand Canyon. It’s pretty awesome to look down the face of the thing.
We snapped a picture of Sarah holding a thermometer reading 103. And it was 75 coming out of the car so it wasn’t car heat. That’s hot. The sun was really beating down.
After the dam we made the short drive up to Vegas. We got there early so we ran out to Ronald’s Donuts and got a few vegan donuts. Glazed donut goodness. Sarah is in love with these things. We plan to get a batch tomorrow morning at 4am as we leave on the next leg.
Upon check-in at Sam’s Town, the hotel/casino we are staying at they told me they were upgrading us to the ‘B’ Suites because they didn’t have any of the rooms that we reserved. The ‘B’ suite is the $500 list per night room. Sweet! 2 rooms, a jacuzzi tub, a stand-up shower, a full bar (unstocked tho), a big screen TV and a bodet toilet. Its pretty cool .. too bad we are only going to have it for such a short time.
This evening we went over to the Vegas strip and poked around. Lots of people, taking pictures no less, wandering around. Lots a neon. Lots of names of hotels we knew. Its kind of amazing how much the casino/hotels names are in our vocabulary.
So now it’s time for bed. We have to get out of here real early (like 4am local time) to make our appointment in the California desert. Then its off to Brett’s house near San Diego.
Sorry for no pictures this time around .. I’m just too beat. We’ll catch up one of these days. I still owe some Grand Canyon shots, especially from our helicopter tour.
