Nevada and Utah

After waking up and swimming for a little bit at The Ritz, we headed to Hoover Dam. It is an incredible dam. It's huge! We did the "dam" tour and were able to go in the tunnels to see the generators that send power to Arizona, Nevada and parts of Southern California. It was really amazing. We walked across the dam and took in some great views. We then headed to Vegas area to hang with my sis and her family for dinner and fireworks. We thought that the fireworks would be great, but we ended up away from the strip only to spend 3 hrs time in/out of parking for about a 10-15 min show...I guess we are really spoiled with Disneyland's fireworks.

We then headed to Utah for a night in St. George.

After a quick nights sleep, we headed to Zion's National Park. I have never been there and was amazed at how beautiful and breathtaking the views are. We hiked the Riverside walk, but weren't really prepared to do the Narrows, so we didn't. Then we took the hike to the Emerald pools. The girls only did the lower and the boys did the entire loop. After a short stop at the gift shop for a little souvenir, we headed to Page, Arizona for the night. (Our trip to the 48 state rule is that we either do something, eat and spend the night in the state for it to count) Page, Arizona Dinner and Hotel with a little swimming will be about it for our Arizona portion (We will hit 4 corners tomorrow). We are planning a Grand Cyn trip in the fall, so we didn't go that far south.

Anyway- that makes 3 states- 45 to go. I'll post more pics later or on facebook- the internet connection here is toooooo sloooooww.