Homewood Suites Lasvegas Arpt Las Vegas

... singers were fantastic! The music was great and the songs were put together really well. Holly was not all that great.... but who cares.... the show as a whole was great.

The theatre was REALLY strict with cameras, making everyone check in their cameras and any mobile phone with cameras. Anyone seen checking any electronic device that could be a camera would be escorted out, and true enough, a man was escorted out early on before the show started!

... the chance to reveal the fact that the pool had been closed on three other occasions in the past two weeks. a child was sick in it. a couple were having sex in it. and then the chlorine tank blew up. you have to wonder what exactly, in the absence of a complete draining, you were swimming in. i'm sure water made up a certain percentage..........

on one of our nights out, we somehow got lost coming out of one of the hotels. or, to put it more accurately, I ...

... but otherwise was fine. We took a shuttle bus to the rental car building, spent ages there getting ever piece of identification from Dad and Maurice and finally got into our new red car.

Driving into Vegas along the strip is some sight to see. Even in pictures it can’t quite do it justice. There are so many places to look, so many places to take photos, you could spend weeks here and not capture half of it. Maurice took a while to get a hang of the ...

... later with a piece of paper in his hand but to my surprise it was just a warning. I'd never been stopped before for a traffic violation and I guess my clean record convinced him to not write me up.

We switched drivers near Phoenix and Wifey guided our trusty steed to the barn. All and all a great trip to Las Vegas. We always have a great experience there and Wifey mentioned last night that we may be able to squeeze in a trip over the 4th of July. Hmm where is that leave request form.

... is a great facilty, I think it is a time share. Thanks to Tanz and Brendan for the recommendation. It is dwarfed by the Bellagio on one side and massive construction on the other. Apparently the developers tried to buy it out but the body corp couldn't agree on a price (lucky for us!). We had a suite complete with kitchen, dining room and living room. It is right in the heart of the strip but so nice because you don't have to weave your way through the huge casino to ...

... doesn't say much about that show to me. I digress, after the show we were finally getting hungry, so we walked back over to Chin Chin's. We decided it would be best to share an entrée and order rice on the side. We decided upon Kung Pao Chicken and Pork Fried Rice as we both have been eating more spicy foods lately. The Chicken was good, but the rice was perfect! Never have I had ...

... old quarry workings. The Colorado river was about a mile below us and every few minutes there was a helicopter flying past beneath us. We did consider that but it was more than $35pp so decided to save that for another time. After a couple of hours and hundreds of photographs later we headed back to the car and hit the road. We arrived back at the Hoover Dam and had a walk across the top. They're building a new road bridge high above ...

... the roads. Bizarrely after this complete desolation, Frankie found herself still required to queue for the toilets in the carpark thanks to the arrival of yet another huge Chinese family! After a quick detour along Artist's Drive, we drove down to Badwater basin for a last stop before leaving the park. This is the lowest point in the USA and consists of a huge dried-up lake-bed covered by strange salt and mineral deposits. Despite the few other tourists ...

... at the southern end of the trip, so this time I looked for a hotel in the northern end of the strip and settled on the Sahara hotel. The Sahara was a bargain (under $50 a night) and for the price it was a pretty good hotel. As it was a typically hot day, the first thing I did was check out the hotel pool and relaxed there for a couple of hours before getting ready to hit the tables.

I had dinner in the Nascar bar, buffalo wings which were really good and a couple of beers ...

... at that time was to plan for a simple trip to Utah and Arizona, in particular to the national parks I had wanted to visit when I had been posted to the United States for work. There was a multitude of places around the 2 states that had captured my imagination in photos and I decided now was the time to make my journey, and so I flew halfway across the world again, rented a basic automobile at LAX airport ...