Pictures of Las Vegas
Unlike the rest of my trips, I feel the urge to justify this one. Las Vegas?
For Christmas? Is Christmas the best time to play poker?
Well, we've developed a recent tradition of going somewhere else for Christmas.
It's nice to be in a big hotel, with room service and just immediate family.
It makes for a worry free (no cooking! no mess! no cleanup!) and rather intimate
get-together. (Update: This got old after a few years) Obviously Las
Vegas has plenty of big hotels, most of the family had never been, there are
things in the area we wanted to see, it seemed like a nicer time of year than
the heat of the summer, and we could see one of a couple of Cirque
du Soleil productions playing at the time. It took a little while to get
used to the idea, but it just made sense.
Here's a picture of Hoover Dam. I took a ton of pictures of Hoover Dam but this
one's at kind of an unusual angle. We went on the hard
hat tour, which was very well done and worth the extra money. Note that
with recent events they totally eliminated tours for a while and the last I
checked they had moved more information to the top of the dam but you can't
go inside anymore. Anyway, my wife's grandfather did some of the design
work and is (briefly) in the film in the visitor center which added a little
extra something.
Turbine shafts at Hoover Dam. These things are whirring around at great speed
making a tremendous sound, even through earplugs (they gave out earplugs as
part of the tour).
I take a lot of pictures of signs, but until now have not put any on the website
because other people don't seem to find them to be as amusing as I do.
Look! We're in Paris! Something like that, anyway.
Go to the second page of Las Vegas pictures.
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