Today we got up and packed up. We headed east! Ended up at the Hoover Dam!
(We also spent time at the very rocky beach of Lake Mead)
Grand Canyon here we come! Mule riding tomorrow!
Last night of Las Vegas, we gambled and got dressed up and ate at Bally’s steakhouse to have fancy steaks! Then we walked down the strip to see the Treasure Island show, which we missed by a few minutes and gambled (badly) there until the next show. It was pretty fun to see a free show and the strip at night. We took our time back and started to explore some casinos we hadn’t seen yet and ended up being further away from wear we started!
Eventually, we got back to Planet Hollywood and played a few slots, saw the raining ceiling, and some window shopping!
Las Vegas was a great stop!
Yesterday we hung around and went to the pool as well as going over to the Luxor to see the Bodies exhibit! It was really cool and very creepy at the same time. The exhibit seems to have created a way to show the actual human body in ways that won’t conpletely make you sick. It was amazing to see this and a huge educational experience for us!
Also here is a picture with me and Papa Smurf! Tonight we are going to dress up and explore!
Las Vegas! We arrived yesterday afternoon and it was a very stressful driving situation for me with the huge trick and all that traffic!
We checked in, got REAL showers and went out to eat. We explored the 1 mile mall window shopping and went down the strip a little to see the Bellagio and its cool water fountain lights show! it was really neat!
We went back and played some slots and I actually won $60 from a penny slot in 5 goes. (Then aaron went and lost it at 3 card poker..) But together we came out 8$ up!!
Great first night!
Yosemite!
We just got back into cell phone service again. We had the worst time trying to find the horrible campsite we had to stay at about an hour south of Yosemite (all of their campsites were full last month when we made our reservations)
Yesterday we took a trail called Mirror lake and had the misfortune to take a horse trail so it smelt funny and was verry dusty. But the views were fantastic! Mirror lake was pretty much non existant because it is late summer, which apparently was normal. The river bed that flows under was pretty dry and we decided to follow this back to the main area of yosemite. We climbed and jumped and ate lunch!
After we were hot (it was almost 100 degrees), so we got Cokes and cooled down. Then we headed to the lower falls walking trail, which the upper falls was nonexistant.. so the lower falls were not as grand as they would be in spring.
We went back to the main area an got free showers then drove back to our awful campsite.
Now we are heading to LAS VEGAS!
Arrival in San Francisco last night, SO MUCH SMOG!
All attempts in the campsites we had researched and were told about were a failure.. none of them worked out so we headed straight out toward Yosemite and stopped off at a random State Park near Fresno and camped there.
We came to Fresno this morning to meet everyone’s demands on pictures and updates! Off we go to Yosemite and then LAS VEGAS (for a real bed to sleep in!)
July 20th: Travel day to Redwoods, we got in around dinner time and we ate and played card games!
July 21st: We took Damnation Creek Trail through the Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, CA (“Del Taco” if you are Aaron) and took the beautiful and wet hiking trail through the giant trees! We were not used to being in this environment since we had spent days in mountanous deserts..and plains. It was grand and beautiful part of the country! These forests host the Coastal Redwoods in which these are the tallest living organisms in the world. (We will see the Giant Sequoia Redwoods in a few days from now).
