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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Viva Las Vegas
Having a connection in the mountains and desert is horrible! I wrote a post, but once I clicked save, it did not go…so here’s round two regarding Las Vegas…
After we cleaned up and made camp at Nellis Air Force Base, it was time to hit the town. I read in a Las Vegas magazine about a Nascar themed restaurant. So we headed to the Sahara for some good eats and Nascar memoribilia. The restaurant had all the Nascar sites that anyone could think of…replica cars, a place to stand to wave the checkered flag and even Carzilla (an oversized race car) plus many tv’s with the race of the day. From there, we headed to Treasure Island to catch the free show. It was packed and I held up one kid at a time so they could see over everyone’s head. It was definetely more risque than I remembered. But the boys enjoyed the boy and girl pirates as they danced and fought. Of course, one ship was “half-way” sunk. From there we drove to the Bellagio to view the fantastic water fountain display. We arrived just as one show finished, so we were able to get a great spot for viewing. “This Kiss” by Faith Hill started and so did the water. It twirled, swirled, danced and sprayed back and forth with lights while getting grins from my boys. Once that was over, we decided to haul them to downtown Las Vegas to Fremont Street. If you haven’t been there before, it’s the biggest light show in Vegas, I think, by using a tunnel to display their show. However, once it started, the loudness and bright lights scared Jacob and Joey so much, they started crying!!! We backed away from Fremont Street a good distance and even though they were scared, they couldn’t take their eyes off of the lights. It was roughtly 11:15pm when we left downtown Vegas. The boys were so tired and exhausted from seeing so many new and exciting things, they fell asleep quickly en route to the campsite.
And for those that don’t know this tidbit either, MIck and I were married in Las Vegas nine years ago on April Fool’s Day. How crazy is that? So driving along the strip, seeing the place we stayed and the sights we saw brought back a lot of great memories. You gotta love Vegas!!!
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June 20-Leaving one desert for another
On Friday, we left the Grand Canyon is search for the Hoover Dam. We traded one desert for another. The scenery didn’t change much, just more cacti to look at. It’s so hot, that our RV is losing power with the fan running constantly. You can tell she likes going downhill because the a/c gets colder!
The Hoover Dam still impresses me. We arrived there roughly at 1:45pm. We parked before we crossed it and WOW…now this is hot weather! My skin felt like it was blistering just standing there. After we looked at the dam, we drove across it, in hopes of finding RV parking just across it. No such luck. So we had to drive back across it. However, I was not going to let the boys walk that long distance in such hot weather. So we drove back across it in our Jeep! We got out, looked at the dam and noticed how low water level at Lake Mead. Once it was time to go, we drove back across the dam to hook up the Jeep to the RV and then again, we drove one last time across the dam….so let’s see, that makes…five times we drove across the Hoover Dam! We are experienced dam people!
Finally, we are off to Las Vegas! We stayed at Nellis Air Force Base for the night, but first we needed to see the Las Vegas Strip before we moved on.
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At the Grand Canyon
I know, I haven’t blogged in a couple of days….so here we go!!!
The Grand Canyon was awesome! In the morning, we walked decided to have the boys become Jr. Ranger’s. So we found an official park ranger and she explained the whole process to the boys. They had four activities to complete and one ranger program to attend. All of this had to be finished before 400pm that day, because that’s when our sunset tour started. We walked to many different points along the canyon rim. At each place, the boys sat down and described what they saw or drew a picture of their experience. The best part was finding the cacti. My youngest, Joey, 4, thought we were in Radiator Springs, which is from the movie Cars. At long last, the tour came and honestly, it was just okay. The sunset was great however. THe colors of the canyon walls lit up and were beautiful. Thankfully, the day was finally over because every one of us were tired. They say it’s a dry heat, but come on…it’s hot no matter what! And for those of you in North Carolina…the pine tree pollen was horrible here. Our RV and Jeep were covered. I now know that I’m allergic to the green pollen because my allergies were acting up!
