Viva Las Vegas...and Arizona and Southern Utah

Last Monday morning, we left really early to take Randy and Jared to the SLC airport. They went to see Cindy, Ken & Syd in Michigan (check out Cindy's blog). After dumping them off, Blake and I headed south to Las Vegas. The further south we went, the hotter it got! By the time we got to Vegas it was 116! That's really hot! We stayed at a WorldMark resort, about 4 miles south of The Strip.

On Tuesday, we decided to go the Las Vegas Temple, well we went there allright, but didn't go inside! It was closed for cleaning!
So we wandered around the temple grounds in the 112 degree heat!

Blake loved all the palm trees!

Then we went to visit Blake's Uncle Richard and Aunt Joann. We bought the 65 Ford from Richard exactly 4 years to the date!

They were really happy to have us visit, and we enjoyed our time there. Blake loved their palm trees, too.

The resort had 3 pools, this is one we could see out our balcony. One of the pools was a lazy river. It felt so good to get in the nice cool water when it was so hot!

On Wednesday, we went down to The Strip on the resort shuttle. Then we bought bus tickets and rode up and down the strip to see some of the sights. We went to Mandalay Bay first and went to the Shark Reef. It was pretty cool, but crowded with some school kids that were pretty noisy.

Blake touched the stingray. There aren't as many as the Grand Rapids zoo.

There were some huge Starfish, and some sharks and many other fish.

Of course we ran into Andre Agasi! (Too bad, he was wax)

Two Lady Di's? (I didn't realize she was that tall.)

Thursday morning, we left at about 8:00, it had cooled off! To 90! We drove to the Hoover Dam, then the Grand Canyon, and then up to Utah past Lake Powell, then through the southern tip of Zion's National Park. We saw some very interesting creations!

Hoover Dam

Grand Canyon

Cool Rocky Mountains from the car window, somewhere in Northern Arizona.

The short tunnel in Zion's. There was another really long one, we were amazed that it was cut right out of the stone mountain.

We had a very nice little hot trip. We stopped in Cedar City for the night, then got up in time to get to SLC to pick up the boys. We put over 1700 miles on my car, and saw many wonderful sights, and didn't even get sunburned or roasted!