My brother and I decided to take my 8 Irish neighbor girls to Las Vegas for a 4-day weekend. It’s so unlike any other city that we pretty much had to take them lest their American holiday come up short. I didn’t end up taking all that many photos, so I’ve only got two sets to share. The first is from atop the Stratosphere hotel where we went to watch the sunset, take in the strip at night, and to nearly die on the crazy rides they have up there.
Picture 1: sunset. Picture 2: the roller coaster thingy, seconds before it drops and scares everyone to death. Picture 3: my brother and one of the Irish lasses during said drop. Picture 4: the strip at night. Picture 5: more of the lasses on the other scary ride, just before it starts up and twirls them around 1,000 feet above the strip.
Friday evening we decided to drive out to Red Rock Canyon, which only takes about 30-45 minutes to get to. The place is absolutely stunning: huge skies, awesome canyons, and if you’re lucky, wild donkeys! I spent most of the afternoon snapping pics of the sky, so I’m only going to put up a few.
There is a 13-mile driving loop that takes you around the park which is great by itself, but we decided to hop out and do some hiking as well.
The girls had never been in temperatures above about 28 degrees Celsius, so the temps that pushed 40+ Celsius (105 F) and up wreaked havoc on a few of them. As a result, only 3 of them made it out to enjoy the scenery.
Picture 1: sky. Picture 2: Elaine hams it up. Picture 3: sky. Picture 4: Ann-Marie also hams it up. Picture 5: Sky. Picture 6: sky and us.
