Las Vegas & Hoover Dam

[fa:p:a=6-13-las-vegas-hoover-dam,id=552219904,j=l,s=s,l=i]We are staying at Circus Circus, which probably wasn’t the best plan since its such a long walk to the South Strip from here, and so darned hot. We picked up a bus pass yesterday to help make our travels easier. Anyway we made it in plenty of time on Tuesday to get our show tickets at Treasure Island last night, and Kerry and I spent a little bit of time gambling before the show started. We ate dinner at Kahunaville, actually the only thing we ordered were a couple of beers and their monstrosity of an appetizer. I didn’t have my camera with me, so excuse the poor cell phone pictures. The show we watched was Mystère by Cirque du Soleil. It was pretty cool. However, if there was some kind of story … I didn’t follow it. Mostly it was awesome acrobatics intermixed with small segments of comedic acting.
 
[fa:p:a=6-13-las-vegas-hoover-dam,id=552457547,j=r,s=s,l=p]Kerry and I spent all of Wednesday making the rounds at all the casinos on the west side of the strip, all the way down to Mandalay Bay. We did some gambling along the way, but mostly we were there to see the sights and sounds of Vegas… and to sweat off about 30 pounds in the heat. We saw a couple of cool cars, including a Bentley Continental GT and a Custom Viper. We did make one last stop before going back to our room for the night, we stopped at a bar and I ordered an entire pitcher of Margarita for myself, and Kerry had 4 beers.
 
[fa:p:a=6-13-las-vegas-hoover-dam,id=552223626,j=l,s=s,l=p]This morning we headed out of Vegas, and went for a quick visit to Hoover Dam. The lake was really low (from the pictures I’ve seen before) so I thought that the dam wasn’t quite as impressive, but it was still very cool to see it in person. There is also quite a bit of construction going on for what looks like a high bridge over the river, just down from the dam that I’m assuming will be the main route, to get traffic off the dam. As we left the dam a cop had pulled over this custom car, it looks familiar, and I’m sure I’ve seen it before on TV or something but I just can’t quite place it. As we headed to San Diego, we also beat the previous high temperature record, and based on where we will be the rest of the trip, I have a feeling this will be the peak. 107 degrees, just outside of Death Valley in Baker, CA.