Day Six

Stratosphere

Our last morning of our vacation, we slept in.  I really wanted to ride one of the rides at the top of the Stratosphere, but they didn't open until 10am. We got everything packed and then made sure we were in line 15 minutes before it opened.  Getting line early helped because we were the only ones on the ride - first to ride that day.  A video of our ride is below (not us, someone else posted this)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbehfUGx6Rs .  It was pretty scary.   I didn't get to sit beside Lee because we were the only two on the ride and we had to sit across from each other to balance it.  I did raise my arms though, so it was cool.  I was brave.  When we were done with the ride, we went downstairs and met Lee's parents to check out.  We were so busy the whole time we were in Vegas, we didn't even have time to gamble.

Pawn Stars Pawn Shop

We were going to drop a quarter in, but you had to buy a card to put your money on.  We definitely didn't have time for that.  Once we left the hotel we headed to the pawn shop from the TV show Pawn Stars.  There was a line to get in the shop that was controlled by security.  I didn't want to stand in line forever, so I asked the security guy if the guys from the show were in.  He said they all were, so I got in line.  Luckily, the line wasn't that long and it was moving quickly.  We got inside the building and soon found out that all the guys from the show were in, but they were taping in a separate room - not cool.  It was cool though seeing a lot of the items we had seen on the show.  They had a lot of tourist items you could buy, but we weren't really interested.  We took a few pictures and headed out to meet back up with Lee's parents.

Dam Signs

We left the city and made our way to our last destination of the trip - Hoover Dam.  They hadn't opened the new road yet, so we sat in traffic for nearly 45 minutes to get to the dam.  While we sat in traffic we got to see all the witty signs.  The unexpected traffic caused us to miss the tour we wanted, but we still got a pretty good one.  We got the power-plant tour.  It was interesting, but I knew most everything they told us.  Lee and I watch a lot of the History Channel.  We took lots of pictures and bought our magnet at the gift shop before we headed out to catch our plane.

We turned in our rental car and got a taxi to the airport.  After getting dinner at the airport and waiting a while for our plane, we finally boarded to head home.  Lee and I forgot to check in early for our flight, so there were only 4 people to board after us.  We of course didn't get to sit together, so that sucked.  Luckily, I got to sit in the aisle seat with two other ladies.  Lee had to sit in between two men.  The ladies in my row worked together and were friendly.  I bought a new book to read and was wide awake, so I read for a few hours.  I just started getting tired twenty minutes before our plane landed.  We landed around 12:15 am.  Mom came to pick us up.  Mom asked us questions about the trip, but we were so worn out and tired we barely answered.  We got to the apartment and crashed.

Overall, it was an amazing trip. I'm so glad I went, but I was also so glad I got to recover for a day before getting busy again.  I took 9.5 Gbs of pictures and video.  It was an awesome trip.