Well, here we are in "Sin City", as they say, with tattoos, piercings, cigarette smoke and gaming machines everywhere...
... mid century nostalgia...
Las Vegas is actually great fun if you don't take it too seriously.
In the am, we headed toward Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam. WOW!
Our first sight of Lake Mead. I thought the lake would be much larger--more filled up... But what we learned was that the lake level has dropped 125 feet since the 1980's when it was filled to the line below where the light rock ends and the dark begins...
Global warming?
Here's Rick on our boat. As we rode along on the paddle wheeler, we saw an amazing view of the the Hoover Dam from Lake Mead....
Then, we visited the Dam itself and saw this...
...looking down into the Colorado River as it empties out of the dam.
And this view of the "spillover" which hasn't been full enough to "spill over" since 1983....
This is one of the very 1930's sculptures, meant to honor the workers who gave their live in the building of the Hoover Dam.
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