Viva Las Vegas and a Bunch of Other Places Too!!

We spent a good bit of this month on a tour of the Southwest.  Here’s where we stayed:

• Las Vegas, NV at the MGM Grand Hotel
• with our friends at their home north of Las Vegas
• Sedona, AZ at The Desert Quail Inn
• Grand Canyon at the Yavapai Lodge
• Las Vegas, NV at the Best Western McCarran Inn.

And here are some of the sights we saw:

• the Las Vegas Strip
• the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
• the Hoover Dam and the Mike O’Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge
• Sedona, Arizona where we went off-road on the famous Pink Jeep Tour
• the Grand Canyon
• the National_Atomic_Testing_Museum in Paradise, NV, which by the way is where most of the Las Vegas Strip is actually located
• the Fremont Street Experience

In other more mundane news, we both made it through another year of school.  When the fall term begins, Owen will be starting his last year of middle school and Ross will be starting his junior year of high school.  And Ross passed his driving test and now has a “180-day temporary license.” 

Our pool is now open for the summer and we plan to make good use of it once we evict the ducks who seem to think it belongs to them!