Ok, I know I said four nights in Vegas and then I only mentioned three. My bad. Our last day in Vegas was our 31st Anniversary. And we are still on our honeymoon. We headed to Clark County Wetlands only to discover we could only take the dog on the outside walkway and not in the park. So we decided to head to Seven Magic Mountains. This was on the other side of Vegas heading toward Los Angeles. It is 15 miles outside Vegas. All I can say is Wow.
See all 7 mountains of colored rocks? That’s it. I still don’t get it. Nothing magical to me and lots of driving for that. Oh well. You win some, you lose some. Next we took Chanel back to the camper and we went into town to ride the High Roller. Now that is something you really don’t want to miss. It really was the highlight of our day and it was so slow (business wise) the two of us got the cabin all to ourselves. This is bigger than the London Eye. It moves very slowly so it never stops. You walk on as it goes. It takes 30 minutes to go around and you can see all over the city. It really was amazing.
Later we went to dinner and headed back to the camp. Tomorrow is a big day. We are meeting up with the kids to go on to Zion, Grand Canyon and Arches. Going to be a full week.
We decided to go to Hoover Dam in the morning. It was really hot. I mean really hot. OMG! I really did not want to do anything in this heat. How do these people live like this? John did not want to take the tour and I just wanted to see the dam. John even walked out on the bridge to see the front side of the dam but it was making me nausea just thinking about him going out on that walkway. Ugh. Not for me.
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam
John on the walkway overlookiing Hoover Dam
Lake Mead
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam Seal
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam
Lake Mead
After the Hoover Dam it just made sense to head to Sew Yeah, a large quilt store in Las Vegas. It is the largest quilt store in Nevada and I would say the largest in the world. It is huge. I was so excited because I have watched their videos but, I’m not going to lie. It is huge, so huge and there is sooooo much fabric. Lots of beautiful fabric but, not biased but, Flash Sew & Quilt has more beautiful fabric than this store. Don’t get me wrong, they have a great selection. Lots of minky. I didn’t see–and that doesn’t mean they don’t have it but, I walked the entire store and did not see Kaffee, nor Tula, nor Tilda. Again, it might be there but I did not see it. It is a beautiful store, the staff was friendly and I highly recommend visiting if you are in the area. This is a huge stand alone store!
Later we took a drive along the strip for John to see what all the hype is about. He really wasn’t interested in much. Thought it was ok. WHAT? The guy is not normal.
The next day we took a drive to the Valley of Fire State Park. John didn’t want to go because all the dangerous trails were shut down. I mean, what would we do? My thoughts were, we’ll go for a nice ride through the park and save me from hiking in the heat. This was working perfectly for me. Who really wants to hike in 90 degree weather. Needless to say, John still was glad we went. It would have been nice if we could have hiked a trail and the weather was in the 70’s but that wasn’t the case so yeah, drive through.
Entry of the park
This is at the Beehives.
Oh look, we are so happy
Valley of Fire State Park
Valley of Fire State Park
Valley of Fire State Park
Valley of Fire State Park
Valley of Fire State Park
Valley of Fire State Park
Valley of Fire State Park
Valley of Fire State Park
Valley of Fire State Park
Valley of Fire State Park
Valley of Fire State Park
Valley of Fire State Park
A stranger took our picture
This is how this should have been done
John also took a few videos driving through here. If you want to see it, click here. https://youtu.be/9OYkuuF8w4U
We hung out at the pool, gave the dog a bath, did laundry and chilled a little all week.
Yup! We had a blowout! Just after leaving Kingman we heard a whoosh sound and immediately pulled over. It was funny (not really) but, John had just mentioned the tire pressure gauge looking good and then the whoosh. That was a new tire and it was totally shredded and wrapped around the wheel/axle. It was hard enough for John to get it jacked up because we were on a slant on the side of the flat–at least that is what I think was happening. I did get out to help because we were on the highway and I was really worried. We immediately went back to Kingman to buy a new wheel and tire. By immediately I do mean after John changed it. So maybe an hour later. And to think I was so worried about getting to Vegas too early to check in. That wasn’t a problem.
We arrived at our campground about 3:00 PM and set up camp. This is super nice. There is a dog park with 4 different size kennels to let your dog run. There is a dog bathing station, a pool, spa, gym and of course clubhouse. Some people stay long term here. We put dinner in the crockpot–a little later than we planned but, we went for a drive to Red Rock Canyon.
A great ending to the day. We came back to camp to a home cooked meal, played some scrabble and off to bed. Tomorrow is Hoover Dam.
Lois and Clark Explorers 