Didn't get a chance to post anything last night because the internet service here failed. The last few places the internet access has been free and quite reliable - here it costs real money and it failed last night and didn't get fixed until this morning sometime.
Two stops on the trip into Las Vegas. The first was at a place called Seligman which is full of old 50's and Route 66 memorabilia. The second was in Kingman where we got to do something that was obviously on the list of quite a few of us - we went into a Walmart. Pretty much what I expected - picture a combination of a gigantic KMart and Woolies grocery store with a bunch of extra little shops as well. Oh, and that 'People of Walmart' website - yep, some of those people were there!
Got into Las Vegas around 3:30, went up to our room and then down to the casino here (we're at the Imperial Palace) where we turned $8 into $70. Nice start. Of course it has all since vanished, but that's fine :-)
What I hadn't realised though was that people can - and do - smoke almost everywhere here, which isn't so good.
Anyway, we went to dinner and a show called 'The Rat Pack is Back' - basically about Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jnr. Not bad - the guy doing the Dean Martin role was particularly good.
Then we went into Fremont Street and got to see the light show - spectacular! When we left there at about 10:40pm it was still 98 degrees.
Up early this morning so I could do my Hoover Dam tour. It was quite good apart from the heat! (which left me with a filthy headache that I've just managed to drug out of existence) and the fact that I could have spent a lot longer looking in the souvenir shop but we were on a strict time schedule and had to leave. The picture above was a surprise to me - they're building a new road to bypass the dam (which at the moment is still used as a highway) and the bridge is just spectacular, even in comparison with the dam.
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