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| February 2019 we headed to Las Vegas, mainly to use it as a hub to visit a bunch of national parks. LV is pretty centrally located, and there are tons of hotels, which makes it the perfect hub! |
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| We always pictured LV as a hot desert, but when we were there, snow dusted all of the mountains. |
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| These peaks are so far away, but the clear air and flat surrounding area give it a strange perspective. |
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| First park: Death Valley. |
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| When we were there it wasn't that hot, but we could see how it would be hot and dangerous! |
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| For some reason, this became our go-to linner restaurant. After a day of driving around, nothing is better than a burger, fries and a shake. |
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| The next day the kids and I went to the Grand Canyon. None of us had been in a helicopter before, so we figured that would be a fun thing to do. |
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| OK, full disclosure, I was a bit nervous, but not these two! |
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| I took about 200 pictures of the GC from the helicopter, but you can probably get the idea from this one. |
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| There was snow here, too, and actually quite slippery. There were lots of warnings not to walk beyond the guardrail and actually the week after we were there a lady slipped off the edge while taking a selfie. |
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| Long drive back! |
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| Our next day was a drive around LV to this place, ElDorado Ghost Town. Of course, when we were there it was being used as a set for a bunch of models, so it wasn't much of a ghost town! Still, the antiques were cool! |
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| The following day was a trip to the Hoover Dam. We made all the dam jokes we could and had a great dam guide. |
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| On our last night we walked the strip, saw the fountains at the Venetian, and the Pooks and I went on the Big Shot. |
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| Since we didn't puke from the ride, we were ready for dinner! |
