We made the turn and are headed east!

Our eastward journey has begun and Las Vegas was our first destination! What a fun "Adult Disney" town. Enroute to Las Vegas we saw some snow capped mountains. This wasn't new to us, but our objective is to follow the sun, not the snow. Fortunately the weather was beautiful during our Vegas stay.

We decided to check out all of the major hotels on the strip. Between the extraordinary exterior architecture and the unbelievable interior glitz and glitter ---- each was an 'event' and very entertaining.

We saw gondolas in the Venetian, real lions in MGM Grand, real pink flamingoes in the Flamingo, the Trojan Horse in Caesar's Palace; pirates at Treasure Island and of course all the casinos. We won a little and lost a little but had a great time playing!

Our favorite was New York, New York.

And in the Paris shopping mall was a store named WOLFORD - we had to take a picture of course!!!



Visited the Madame Toussaud wax museum, and lucked out with this picture. Here is Bill helping Tiger line up a putt. Tiger was for real, the wax figurine was Bill.

Barb was in true awe of Princess Diana!

We went to see Blue Man Group, an excellent audience active show. It was a real experience - if you ever have the chance to see them - GO! Lots of fun and laughs - also very talented guys! Went to the Golden Nugget in the old part of Las Vegas to see "Defending the Caveman", a one man show that had us in stitches - another must see if you ever get the chance. He was right on about men and women and the differences - "hunters and gathers!" Hysterical!

The picture below is actually Blue Man Group in the wax museum but we thought it would do for our close up and personal shot!

The 'old' part of Las Vegas is now called the Fremont Street Experience. It was an event of its own. Every hour the casino lights go dark and there is a light show inside an overhead canopy over the street. Millions of lights and a true Vegas happening. Here is a picture of the tallest 'lit' sign in Vegas (on Fremont St). This was a bit of 'old Vegas' sign of the times, with a few lights in need of replacement.

At the end of our stay we spent a day driving to the Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. Lake Mead was extremely low, however no one seemed too concerned because of the heavy snows in the mountains this year. We also drove over it in the RV on our way to the Grand Canyon (next blog)

Commercial trucks are not permitted to drive over the dam, probably due to security issues. They are however building a bridge next to the dam, that should be competed by 2010.

Next stop is the Grand Canyon, stay tuned!!