Road Trip - Las Vegas

Sedona, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas at last! It seemed like this series of blogs took as long as the trip itself :) Well the buildings along the strip were beautiful and elaborate. I am simply amazed by how they managed to build a city like this right in the middle of the desert. More importantly, why did they? Hmm...

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We asked Sonya which one she wanted to go down and she chose the "castle" one below :) We went through the casino to the mini-amusement area for children in the basement where Sonya and Justin played some of the games there.

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Unfortunately, we didn't win anything but Sonya got quite a few tickets from some of the machines and she managed to exchange them for a "gold" necklace :)

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That ended our very short visit in Las Vegas and we headed off to the airport and flew back to Boston.

Denver, Colorado to Las Vegas, Nevada

The map above shows all the places we went over the past 13 days. It was a long and tiring trip but it was fun and educational (wink) too for all of us :)

Here are our top 5 favorite places from this trip:

Justin's Favorites:

1. Rocky Mountains
2. Grand Canyon
3. Yellowstone
4. Arches
5. Bryce Canyon
   

Linee's Favorites:

1. Rocky Mountains
2. Yellowstone
3. Grand Canyon (You MUST go to the North Rim even if it means driving for 3 hours!)
   
4. Arches
5. Bryce Canyon

Sonya's Favorites:

1. Elk peeing on the grass at Yellowstone
2. Dora the Explorer
3. Barney

In addition, Justin had classified Sedona as not worth visiting! hahaha...

Phew! I finally finished documenting the whole trip. Hope you had fun reading!