Last day

Today was our last day. We went over to Excalibur so Holly could see the castle.


Then, we went to New York and had coffee at a great sidewalk cafe. . .  inside, of course!


And then did a "first" for all of us - went to the famous "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign!
Finally, it was off to the airport to head home!

Dinner and the Strip

After we left the Hoover Dam, we went for a quick shopping trip at the Las Vegas Premium Outlets (North) - one of my favourite shopping chains, the Chelsea Premium Outlets (where I've shopped in Washington, Oregon, California, and Hawaii!).

Just as we were arriving at the shopping outlet, we saw this really weird building. . .  which turned out to be the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health!

We took Holly for dinner at the Rainforest Cafe. We used to have one in Burnaby, but it closed, so it was her first experience there. It was fun, but we had to wait for quite a while to get in.


After dinner, we went to watch the Treasure Island outdoor pirate show. It's changed since I first saw it (nearly 25 years ago!) - much sexier with the Sirens (girl pirates), instead of the British navy!

Hoover Dam

After the zipline, we drove about 10 minutes down the road to see the Hoover Dam. . . we had lunch there and even walked across to Arizona for a few minutes! This was quite an amazing structure to see and it's hard to believe it was built in the early 1930's. Holly enjoyed the visit and even bought a book with some of her travel money that tells facts about the Hoover Dam.

Zipline!

Today, I went to the Bootleg Canyon Flightline for a ride on our zipline... I say "our" because we invested some money into it. Paul got to ride on it last year, and this time was my turn. We would have liked to have taken Holly, but she is waaayyy to light - she'd likely get stuck half way down the lines! We took a short ride to the where the zip lines start.

There is a great view from the top . . .

 

I even saw some big horn sheep. . . 

 

. . . if you zoom in on this one, you will see 6 or 7 of them!

 

Vegas in the distance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the platforms. . .  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What a great ride! It was super fun - different from the one in Whistler we tried because of the weather and scenery. If you come with friends, it's also more fun because here there are 4 people that can zip down at the same time.