Congrats to the Clintons, Chelsea made a beautiful bride! It has been the lead news story out here for a week now, except if it rains, that is really big news.
Friday we did the Hoover dam with a least a million other tourists. The traffic is unbelievable to
this amazing wonder, but a bridge is to open soon and named to honor Pat Tillman, the soldier/ pro football player who fell to friendly fire.
Today we spent the day and most of the evening in Las Vegas, and oh what an overdone city!
But I loved it, it was so visually stimulating and of course I shot a million pictures. It was hard not to, every time I turned around I saw the same thing in a different light. Poor Ken! We started at the Bellagio, which was more than I could imagine, the outdoor water show in front of the bldg, the atrium in a summer theme with rare sculpted olive trees, and if that wasn't enough the lobby ceiling was done in Dale Chihuly flowers, unbelievable. We also took a trolley tour which gave us the history of Las Vegas, passed the hotels/casinos on the strip and made 17 stops. We sat in seats on the top of the open trolley, well covered in sunscreen, but it was still about 106 degrees and oohed and aahed for two hours.
After the trolley tour we went to the Aria Resort Hotel/Casino for brunch at The Buffet, it was also unbelievable. I should not have been surprised, everyone has said the food is pretty wonderful in L.V. and it was. The buffet was very classy, no one breathing on the food, fresh, well cooked and nicely presented. They had Alaskan crab legs, steamed shelled shrimp, sushi, lox, salad greens, Italian pastas dishes, etc, etc,. They had an outstanding, beautiful assortment of desserts, like flans, gelato and just everything, again beautifully presented, very impressive.
After eating for at least 2 hours and enjoying a lovely relaxing meal we hit the streets and saw up close what we saw from the trolley. Then we hung around until it got dark so we could see all the lights. Spectacular!
Tomorrow: Death Valley National Park.
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