P.S. In the middle of photo 28, if you look carefully you can make out the narrow road which is Route 66 - there is a little u shaped cut out portion and a big drop - some of them were much worse than that - I was petrified and made Les drive about 5 mph - he laughed at me. He traveled that route out to California in the 50's - hard to believe that was the only southern route before Interstates
If you've never been to Vegas, it's a must. The scenery is breathtaking. We went sightseeing and I kinda felt that I was in the middle of an old west cowboy movie where they ride across the desert.
Quite different from the country setting of Connecticut. We did Hoover Dam, Red Rock Canyon, a ghost town, old west town, and most of the glitzy hotels on the strip. Talk about ostentatious!
I think one of the highlights was
a black jack table where the dealers were also entertainers who impersonate famous
singers - called themselves Dealertainers. They all take turns
getting up on a platform behind the table -- there was "Dolly Parton, Bette
Midler, Rod Stewart, Little Richard, The Blues Brothers". They all looked
and sounded like the real stuff. It's a free show in the casino every day from
1-4 and 8-11p.m. The Venetian had gondola rides with singing gondoliers, The
Bellagio - one of the classiest hotels - had a wonderful fountain of lights show set
to music every 1/2 hour after dark. The fountains sway in time to the
music. Paris had a 50% scale of the Eiffel Tower - we went up in that and so
on.. You could find something to do every day for a couple of weeks and not
repeat.
