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Wednesday, April 26th, 2006The rest of our time in Vegas was fun, with lots of contrasting adventures. Sunday was mostly a day of relaxing and for Aaron to take care of some last-minute business, and then we headed off to see the Hoover Dam. We went via Lake Mead National Recreation Area, where we saw, um, the lake, which was created by the dam and was very blue. It was also very windy out there, so we didn’t explore too much. When we reached the highway to the dam at the end of the park, we saw a huge line-up of cars, trucks, and RVs headed for the dam, and our host had warned me that if that was the case it would take much too long to drive the four miles to the dam and we were better off just trying again later. Seemed like sound advice to us, so we were back at their house about an hour after we left. That night our hosts took us out to dinner at the Elephant Grill (or Elephant Bar?), a place with a strange combination of dishes on their menu, including this wedge of iceberg lettuce covered in a weird dressing that had bacon and chopped-up hard-boiled eggs on it. There was a picture that I can’t imagine would ever entice anyone to order it. So we didn’t, and instead enjoyed a stir fry with tofu (Aaron) and a burger (me) and shared salad and fries, and enjoyed the free refills on soda, which seem to be a totally western (but not Californian) thing, since I’m enjoying lots of them in Denver, too.
Amy