Monday, March 13, 2006.  We are in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, at Lake Mead Boulder Beach Campground.  We have decided to stay here and visit Las Vegas and area.  The price is $10.00 not as cheap as a BLM (Bureau of Land Management) site but it is within our budget.  We cannot possibly see Las Vegas in one day but that is all we are dedication to it. We only explored one side of the street and the old Los Vegas (Freemont). We will have to go back for the other side of the street.

"LAS VEGAS"


This is New York, New York Casino.

Inside lobby of "The Ceasar's Palace".  I swear this place covers a whole block.

Just one of the statues inside Ceasar's Palace.

Inside the Luxor's Casino, this casino is a pyramid.
 

The night life in "The Freemont Experience".  The original gambling section of Las Vegas.

Night shot of Las Vegas.

 

 

 

 

 


The water show at the "Bellagio". 

 

 

 


The shopping and casino's are on the sides and what you're looking at is a TV screen canopy covering the streets of the original Las Vegas.  This is a huge screen in which they do a show at night.  The planes and stripes is a movie!!! WOW!!!

 

 

 "THE VALLEY OF FIRE"

Evidence suggests the Valley has been occupied from 300 B.C. to 1150 a.d.

 

 

 


The Valley of Fire derives its name from red sandstone formations, formed from great shifting sand dunes during the age of dinosaurs, 150 million years ago.

There were ancient petrogliphs like this one and Denis deciphered it. It says "God created man, then rested.... God then created woman, and since then, no-one has rested"!!!

Prehistoric users of the Valley of Fire included the Basket Maker people and later the Anasazi Pueblo farmers from the nearby fertile valleys.


This was one of the weddings we saw today! Denis is taking me here for our 25th!
 

The area plant is dominated by widely spaced creosote bush, burro bush, and brittlebush.  Several cactus species, including beaver tail and cholla, are also common.
 

 


Valley Of Fire State Park, looking down one of the valley roads.

"HOVER DAM"

 


The Hoover Dam has a height 726.4 feet.  Volume of concrete: 3.25 million cubic yards (2.6 million cubic meters)...enough to built a sidewalk around the world.  It is quite something to look at.  Construction began in 1931, and the last concrete was poured in 1935.  This was built to control the mighty Colorado River which often flooded low-lying farmland and communities. This was how the Salton Sea near Borrego Springs was created

This bronze statue was built in dedication to men who worked and risked their lives scaling and dynamiting the rocks walls.
Monday, March 20, 2006  We will be leaving Lake Mead, Nevada and going to back to Arizona.  I think we will stay in Lake Havasu in a BLM at Craggy Wash.

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