...for more pictures of our time in Nevada and Arizona. So here they are:
One of the shining highlights of the entire trip was seeing the Cirque Du Soleil. There are four permanent shows in Las Vegas and we had a hard time picking just one. Tickets are not cheap. The most talked-about show in town is "LOVE." We lucked out and got tickets. We bought the thriftiest ones and the total came to $300 cdn. It was worth every penny though. The venue is built specifically for the show and it's the only "Beatles sanctioned" show ever to be created. I'm not even going to try to describe what a great experience it was because I will only sabotage it.
One of the more bizarre fixtures in Vegas are the oxygen bars. If you click on the photo above you'll notice that this guy has oxygen tubes up his nose and the blonde employee is massaging his scalp with a vibrating wire-type thing. For 15 minutes and $15 you can select an oxygen frangrance and, well, just sit there and breathe. The massages are extra.
The tacky tourist gift shops were mostly filled with absurd trash. I did, however, get a kick out of this skeletal Star Wars statue.
One thing about Vegas is that they go out of their way to have you forget what time of day it really is. This gondola picture was taking inside a mall in the Venetian hotel-mega complex. Notice how the sky is perma-blue? This picture was taken long after sun down. Stores line the faux-Venice waterways.
Meerkats at the Grand Canyon.
Here we are at the Hoover Dam. What a majestic feat of engineering, especially when you consider that it was built in the 1930s!
Who knew that jackalopes were native to Nevada? Last summer we got a picture of one at the coffee shop in Bella Coola in BC. They must be hardy little buggers to thrive in so many different climates. Heh heh.
One of the shining highlights of the entire trip was seeing the Cirque Du Soleil. There are four permanent shows in Las Vegas and we had a hard time picking just one. Tickets are not cheap. The most talked-about show in town is "LOVE." We lucked out and got tickets. We bought the thriftiest ones and the total came to $300 cdn. It was worth every penny though. The venue is built specifically for the show and it's the only "Beatles sanctioned" show ever to be created. I'm not even going to try to describe what a great experience it was because I will only sabotage it.
One of the more bizarre fixtures in Vegas are the oxygen bars. If you click on the photo above you'll notice that this guy has oxygen tubes up his nose and the blonde employee is massaging his scalp with a vibrating wire-type thing. For 15 minutes and $15 you can select an oxygen frangrance and, well, just sit there and breathe. The massages are extra.
The tacky tourist gift shops were mostly filled with absurd trash. I did, however, get a kick out of this skeletal Star Wars statue.
One thing about Vegas is that they go out of their way to have you forget what time of day it really is. This gondola picture was taking inside a mall in the Venetian hotel-mega complex. Notice how the sky is perma-blue? This picture was taken long after sun down. Stores line the faux-Venice waterways. 
Meerkats at the Grand Canyon.
Here we are at the Hoover Dam. What a majestic feat of engineering, especially when you consider that it was built in the 1930s!
Who knew that jackalopes were native to Nevada? Last summer we got a picture of one at the coffee shop in Bella Coola in BC. They must be hardy little buggers to thrive in so many different climates. Heh heh.
That jackalope photo is the FUNNIEST! It looks like it was taken at the same spot in Bellacoola.
ReplyDeleteHow could you have restrained yourself from purchasing the skeleton star wars figurine? Thanks for taking a photo of it!!
Oxygen fragrance? Like, the air can be flavoured? Then it isn't pure!!! I wonder how toxic the odours are. I want to send some people with emphysema into the oxygen bar with their mobile tanks to show off how you can have free oxgygen therapy 24/7 if you screw over your lungs. They could also linger outside the bar to offer cheap oxygen therapy. I wonder if the oxygen bar tenders would ask them to leave.