Lost Vegas Day 2

Day two of our trip had two planned events, one outside the city, and one very much in the heart of Las Vegas.

After a “healthy” breakfast we drove out to the Hoover Dam, formerly the Boulder Dam, to check out all the associated parts – Lake Mead, the Colorado River, Hoover Dam, the power generating station, and Mike O’Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. The drive is less than an hour, through some intriguing desert landscape. The scale and magnitude of that dam and bridge are truly remarkable. I hope the pictures give some sense of scale and wonder. Our goal was to choose a destination with less walking, so we’d still have fresh legs for the second leg of the day, but Eileen informs me we passed 10,000 steps before we ever got to the strolling part of the day back in Vegas.

The second part of our day was dinner and a show, while oggling the sights and sounds and ambiance of the Las Vegas Strip – the stretch of road with the biggest, newest, and most opulent casinos. We walked from our “home” to the strip, took in the sights, and had supper at a Bobby Flay restaurant called Mesa Grill in Caesar’s Palace. I’ve included one of my very few food photos from that supper in the gallery below. After supper we walked to The Mirage, where we watched a Cirque du Soleil show (Canadian!) which had a Beatles theme. The show is called LOVE, and while I have no photos of that amazing show, you can see a big banner for LOVE behind the blue and copper casino in one of my city shots near the end of today’s photos.

We took an Uber home since it was now late, at least by “Saskatoon early to bed people” standards, and had an Uber driver who thought he was the world’s best comedian. I suggested he keep working on his routine as we were dropped off.