Rhythm Kitchen After missing breakfast once again we set off to make an appointment for Mae to have her hair cut, after finding a nice looking salon which had good reviews we managed to make her an appointment for the next morning. As we were driving back we came upon a second hand book shop where we managed to spend most of the day browsing eventually succeeding in escaping with only 2 to read! The dancing that evening was at a restaurant called rhythm kitc...

The Venetian. Not a lot to say about today really, we spent most of the morning driving back from Los Angeles, finally arriving back about lunch time. After checking back into the Hostel we spent the day recovering from the last 2 hardcore nights before getting ready to go to Rhumbar in the mirage where we had been informed there was dancing that evening. Unfortunately we arrived to find that as the Dance floor was outside it had been cancelled due to the rai...

Lazy day & Exploring the 'Strip' After a lovely long lie in until about 12 we couldn't tear ourselves away from the comfort of a cool room and a huge bed and so read our books for a couple of hours before deciding we should really do some laundry while we had some free time. We helped ourselves to free coffee whilst the washing was on and continued to read and relax until about 7pm when we eventually showered and got ready to go out. We headed down to the st...

Hoover Dam and La Sonora Mantencera After waking up at about 9 with no police help, we drove the 17 miles to the Hoover Dam, named for president Hoover (not J. Edgar). We arrived to find the usual security checkpoint where the guard barely glanced in the car before letting us through. Once we reached the Dam we were instantly impressed with this remarkable feat of engineering. After driving to the top of the hill where parking was free, as oppose to 100 yards fu...