Hoover Dam

6/18/15
Day 11

We drove to Hoover Dam which was about 40 minutes from our fancy Vegas campsite. The dam was huge! I'm surprised my mom actually went out on it, because we were so high up that even I was scared! We stood on the state line between Nevada and Arizona to take a picture, and then we went to watch a video about the history of the dam. After the video Dad, Chandler, and I went down into the power plant inside the dam. My dad was fascinated by it (sort of an occupational thing for him) and I was sweating profusely which made it hard to enjoy anything. Once the tour was over we met up with the rest of the family in the gift shop. I was disappointed to hear they had gotten ice cream with out us. We headed back to camp to make dinner, chicken kabobs our favorite. To finish the night, we went night swimming. We were all having fun and wrestling until Chandler destroyed his toe on the bottom of the hot tub, it was GROSS.

What Happens in Vegas

6/17/15

Day 10

We left Utah a little later because the drive today was only about four and a half hours. When we got to LVM (Las Vegas Motor Coach), we set up and everyone except for me went inside the nice AC, I on the other hand stayed outside in the grass and read. I enjoyed the Nevada air (which was good because I have been looking at going to UNLV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)). A little while later we decided to go to dinner at a Brazilian restaurant called Fogo de Chao. It was pretty good, I wasn't a huge fan of their buffet, but their meat was amazing!!! Servers would come around with sticks full of meat, each server holding a different type, if you had your card up, they would come over to you and tell you what type of meat it was and you could pick whether or not you wanted some. I really enjoyed the lamb and the top sirloin. Their lemonade was not my favorite, it was like a key lime lemonade rather than an actual lemonade, so I ended up trading that for a Coke. Dessert was great, Colin and I shared a Chocolate Mousse Cake, but I also snagged some of Charlie's Molten Lava Cake (the Lava Cake was better). 

After dinner my parents took us to walk the strip. Las Vegas has a little bit of every thing, you see quite a few interesting people while walking down the Vegas strip. I saw Olafs, minions, Hulk, Iron Man, "cowboys", "police officers", Kiss performers, and Transformers. They were all pretty cool, but what I enjoyed the most was the Bellagio Hotel fountain. The fountain preforms in sync to a song played, its beautiful with its lights and sweet music; it was definitely the highlight of my night.