Wow big day yesterday. Took a road trip to the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam. You can see the first picture where we started out with slightly cool but clear blue skies. We were shocked as the day wore on with what happened to the weather. We had planned about five hours to the south rim of the canyon. Went ahead and stopped at Hoover Dam and took one of the tours so we could see inside of the dam a little bit. We both loved it. Drove on a pretty long stretch of Route 66 through interesting weather. What was most shocking about the day was how the scenery kept changing. We went from desert to a national forest, through mountains and then back to flat desert. Very strange.
The Grand Canyon was well worth the extra effort. I've seen many pictures but it's just not the same, you have to see it. Beautiful scenery however I can't imagine the park in the summer time with so many people around. It seems too crowded now.
Back in Vegas we cleaned up, changed and went out to get some food. Played a little Three Card Poker at MGM Grand and then back to our hotel for a few hands of Blackjack.
Picture of us at Lake Mead.
So we didn't rent the Ford Escort for the day. Went with the Mustang Convertible. Can't say enough about this car, driving it was wonderful. As we will see later, didn't get as much use out of having the top down.
Suz and I down in the generator room at the dam.
Again, overlooking the dam.
After we got to Kingman, AZ we turned onto Rte. 66. Very pretty drive.
Old looking store with a bunch of cool old signs.
So we had to put the top up. There is one of our pics of us driving through the snow. Temp had dropped to about 31 degrees by this point.
Snow easing up a bit enough for us to get out and get a good pic of us at the park sign.
I took a little detour to go out and get this picture, Susan stayed back and took this cool photo.
Nice backdrop.
Hoover Dam at night. Evern better looking than daytime.
Snapped my own picture of the Las Vegas sign.
Crossing the Strip working our way back to the hotel.
This guy laying in the elevator might have had one too many.
The MGM Grand at night. I'm a big fan of this hotel but I'm not sure Susan is, we'll have to see where we end up on our next trip.
Time to get up and do it again.
Marshall (Susan still sleeping)
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