We arrived in Las Vegas Monday afternoon and just hung around The Bellagio, ate dinner there and watched the fountains. We went to bed early, because we were still on Central Time Zone and we had to get up early Tuesday to catch our tour out to The Hoover Dam.
That place is pretty incredible and my uber nerd came out. I just kept thinking.. "They built THIS in the 1930's?!!?" They had to re-route the Colorado River to be able to built this thing.. meaning, they blasted through the rock and made tunnels for it. Ah-mazing.
I'm just going to show you all the pics.. with captions.
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| Lake Meade |
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| The white rings are where the lake has gotten up to-- the calcium in the water turns the rock. |
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| Proof it's not just a good camera that takes a picture...Cool thumb, dude. |
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| The fam in front of one of the Hummer trucks that we took. |
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| Jo Jo hurt his back, and Tracie was trying to rub the muscle. Priceless. |
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| John heard a woman comment "How can she take a good picture without a flash?" This is how.. I KNOW what I'm doing! |
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| Something big that I don't remember what it does now. |
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| Looking out the coservation windows.. sorry for the glare! |
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| The new bridge. It took 9 years to build this bridge. It only took them 4 to build the Dam. |
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| If you rub the statues feet, it gives you good luck at the casinos.. it seemed to work for us! |
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| The Nevada/Arizona state line |
