Las Vegas (Again)

Sigh.. Time to leave Sedona. We went to another marvelous breakfast at the Casa - poached pear and french toast. There were more guests today because it was Saturday and people were there for the weekend. We shared a table with a young couple from Wisconsin, Tim and Reba. They were on their honeymoon, having gotten married the prior Saturday. They had been to the Grand Canyon and a few other places besides Sedona. It was fun to talk to them.

I took a few pictures of Casa Sedona that I'd like to share. It was a wonderful place to stay.

On the road again, we stopped for our lattes on the way out of town. As we headed back through "uptown" Sedona, we decided to shop for a wallet for Dave if we saw any place that was interesting. We stopped at the main shopping area, and went to a few places. Dave didn't find anything, but of course I picked up a few things! As we went on a little further, we saw a small place that sold leather goods. We stopped and viola (!) Dave found just what he was looking for.

Back on the road, we felt this would be the longest drive of the trip. We made pretty good time getting back onto I-40 and thought that Kingman would be a good place to stop for lunch before we got onto US-93 to go into Vegas. Kingman was "fast food city", so the best place we could eat was Denny's. Not bad, but definitely not Casa Sedona...

On to US-93 and I discovered that this route goes over Hoover Dam. I was really excited (!) because I've never been there, in spite of living in California and going to Vegas often. However, as we got closer, my enthusiasm waned as the traffic increased. It was amazing to see so many people there, and unfortunately tourist traffic and thru traffic had to take the same route. We could see they are building another road that bypasses the dam, but it was just to either side of the dam at this point.

We made it through and got into Vegas around 4:00 PM. This time around we were staying at Harrah's because it was close to The Venetian, where the Blue Man Group was playing. We checked in, moved our luggage to the room, and decided to go and pick up our tickets for the show. By the time we got our tickets, there was about 45 minutes until the doors opened at 6:00 PM for the 7:00 PM show. We figured it was too late to go back to the room before the show, so we walked around and gambled a little. The show was really fun! I've seen it before and it's pretty hard to describe. Go to the link above and check it out.

By this time, I was pretty exhausted. Not much of a party animal anymore...