Day 10 - Day 11 Las Vegas

Starting with Day 9 evening, on our arrival to Vegas.  Very hot, very busy, very well lit up.

Day 10, Monday 18th August, was a bit of a write off with us surfacing around 4pm and managing to eat and drink New York New York's finest pizza and lemonade before heading back to our room to finish Thor II on the ipad, left over from the flight.

Today, Tuesday, was a better day but first a couple of poor Vegas shots.

Today however was our Black Canyon rafting starting at the Hoover Dam and heading 12 miles downstream.  Day started well with a great tour guide and pleasant company on the boat.  We got the history of the Dam and its purpose, for managing the Colorado flow, electricity generation a secondary issue.

Not our raft but that's what we were on!  Prime location starboard front outside.

Look to the sky, if you can pinch or expand you can see the flying flamingo's. Or geese or pigeons or something.

Our lunch and first planned swim stop of the day.  You may notice the lack of blue sky, this is when things got a little ugly, ha ugly, that was the problem the night before too.

Lunch time Nevada style, 4" of rain a year they get, they didn't tell it all came on the same day!

Here is a heron.  Flying.

And here is the rain.  P@@@@@g down.

The last two pictures where taken, perhaps an hour from our lunch stop where it started.  We took refuge under an overhang and watched as waterfalls were created on the canon sides, typical for a honeymoon.

On the up side our rafting colleagues were all good sports and we made a new friend, Jane who was the only other English person.  A little camera shy, sitting by Heidi.  Travelling alone we're meeting later at her place, as she has a suite, kitchen, dining room, washer, dryer, freezer...   

So that's our day so far, were back in the room, showered half dressed and ready to hit the streets for some lunch/tea and say hello to Jane.