Our Week in Las Vegas

It is hot,hotter, hottest..certainly not the time of the year to be in Las Vegas,the temperature in triple digits ,very dry and very uncomfortable.....but that said,

there is still no place on the planet like it.



It is so cosmopolitan. Many languages heard all around you. Sit in any lobby of the strip hotels and witness literally the world passing by. The enormity of the city is obvious. Dozens of hotels, hundreds of rooms to fill, thousands of gaming machines to man....so much money invested in it all. Amazing.



The hotels are the stars....the decors, the themes, the shows. the lights, the spectacles each evening all vying for attention...and the creativity of it all.

Amazing.



I understand pure oxygen is pumped into the casinos for a feeling of euphoria and if true the ambiance of each also adds to the atmosphere of wonder and unreality.



We all spent time in the fabulous hotels and enjoyed the beauty of them all and we have plenty of photos to remember each by.



The girls splurged on a night out at "O", the most fabulous of the Cirque du Soleil shows I have ever seen. The technology and the creativity are unmatched and the sheer entertainment was a once in a lifetime treat. The 90 minutes go by so quickly and one is hard pressed to keep breathing with thrill after thrill coming so quickly. We felt so lucky to have had the opportunity to see it.



Hoover Dam was also a venue we all visited. Some of us took the tour and went down into the inner workings of the complex and some of us , just drove to the areas accessible by car. Either way it was awesome and quite an achievement for man. Built in the early thirties,it is an engineering miracle.



We also enjoyed the swimming pool and made daily trips to take advantage of the heat and to thaw out after a month of traveling in the high altitude of the cold mountain, but by the end of the week it had turned into a very warm spa when the temps climbed ever higher.



So we have enjoyed Las Vegas with eight days of rest,swimming, and sleeping late. We are now three hours behind our home and adjusting to that difference has been hard to get used to. My poor loved ones keep getting calls from me after they have been sleeping for awhile.



We leave for Utah and two weeks visiting the three national parks of Zion, Bryce Canyon, and the Arches. We are looking for a more moderate climate and to seeing the wonderful vistas we have heard are second to none.



The journey continues and so does the excitement.