Sept 2012 - Grand Canyon to Las Vegas

We didn't manage to get up early enough to watch the sunrise this morning. So, we headed instead to El Tovar nearby to get some breakfast.

The food was again surprisingly good considering how many people they feed and the somewhat remote location!

After breakfast we had a wander from El Tovar back toward our lodge.

It is weird how the view of the canyon changes depending on where you are!

So, back to the room to pack up our things. I went up to the main lodge to settle our bill. We paid $80 in total for 2 meals which I thought was quite good considering.

Rob was waiting in the car and we left the park at about 11.

We probably could have stayed a little longer but we wanted to try and get to Vegas before it got dark.

We had another long and fairly uninteresting drive.

We stopped in Kingman, Arizona again to get some petrol and a giant drink in McDonalds!

We made reasonable time and so decided to stop and take a quick look at the Hoover Dam.

We parked up at the Hoover Dam and wandered across to the visitor centre.....man it was hot here!

We were just in time for the final powerplant tour of the day which was $11 each and so we decided to check it out.

The tour was quite interesting....apparently the concrete in the dam is still cooling even after all this time!

So, our little stop over we carried on towards Las Vegas.

The sat nav did quite well right up until this point - and then it told us to turn off when we were on a divided highway - which was impossible!

Having said that it worked out quite well as the road it wanted us to take was really busy and the way we ended up going was quite clear.

We arrived at Aria and valet parked the car. Left the bags with the bell man and went to check in.

A few minutes later and we got to our room on the 29th floor.

We got the bags brought up, unpacked and Rob investigated the gadgets in the room - all the lights, tv etc were controlled by a little pad thing!

Time for a little rest before we go out to explore!