Sunday, March 29, 2009

26 March 2009 On our way to Las Vegas

This morning the weather is really bad, we decide to go directly to Las Vegas, as the Grand Canyon has too high winds and there are severe weather warnings. As we leave the Hotel the wind is gusting and the temperatures are –7 Deg C with the wind-chill factor. This is Indian Country and we did not expect it to be this cold, so camping is out of the question. We tackle the 8 hour drive to Las Vegas, but it is a tedious drive with the strong winds. We even encounter a Snowstorm and there is still a lot of snow lying around.

We pass Hoover Dam (which is the Dam wall for Lake Mead) There is construction on the new bridge which was interesting. The drive over the wall takes approximately 30 minutes, just to absorb all the sights, there is even a museum there.

Then we hit the city of lights Las Vegas, but the Hotel we had in mind was fully booked, so we had to choose an alternate the was OK. Tomorrow we will look for a cheaper Hotel Casino that we saw in Boulders that is just outside of Las Vegas at only $19 per night.

Indian Country Indian Trading post

Decor at the trading Post Rock Paintings Arriving in Arizona A fort in Arizona.

We came across this place in the Petrified forrest park, This guy made fancy decor everywhere to attract tourists. Because he has ostriches he made this sculpture A Saber tooth attacking a deer

Massive Crystals This was his shop, filled with fossils and other antiques

Petrified trees, the kids all got some pertrified fossils as reminder. Most of his stuff was sdvertised as free

Arizona landscape,closer to Flagstaff, here the weather started to catch us P3260026 Snow was everywhere from the night before "Boertjies" experiencing their first snowstom

After the snowstorm we started to get high winds that really jerked the car around The road leading to Hoover dam towards Nevada, but still in Arizona There are varios signs for Antelopes This one for bighorns, but there are for Elks, Reigndeer,Moose,Carribou and deer. This is the Colorado river

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P3260056    P3260053All at the Dam wall

Lake Mead P3260065 Water intake for Hydroelectricity Museum and lookout points for tourists

New Arch bridge construction Finally past the Hover dam in Nevada,this is Lake Mead Entering Las Vegas The Las Vegas Strip in the back P3260089 Light everywhere!

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