OK, so we're in Las Vegas.

[jon-nyc]

Vegas averages 4” a year.

[Jolly]

Sure wish we could take some of that off their hands...

[Mik]

Went out to Red Rock Canyon yesterday, was next to a big storm. Not much rain on us but we got to see flash flooding in the desert up close. Pretty cool. Beautiful scenic drive. I wish this pic did it justice, but you just have to see it.

[Aqua Letifer]

Wow that's awesome.

[bachophile]

I’ve done a southern Utah drive. Red rock areas are magnificent

[LuFins Dad]

Gorgeous, but please be careful. You don’t know the area, don’t know what roads cut through where. That runoff from the mountains is no joke.

[Mik]

I've been well aware of desert floods for many years. Don't worry.

[Horace]

Beautiful. Similar to Bryce Canyon.

[taiwan_girl]

@Aqua-Letifer said in OK, so we're in Las Vegas.:

Wow that's awesome.

+1

[Mik]

We also cruised the strip yesterday. I haven't been here since 1976. It's like Times Square x 1000. Grotesque, like in a sci-fi dystopia.

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in OK, so we're in Las Vegas.:

We also cruised the strip yesterday. I haven't been here since 1976. It's like Times Square x 1000. Grotesque, like in a sci-fi dystopia.

Go watch the Pirates show at Treasure Island. If you time it right, you can also watch the water show at Bellagio.

[Mik]

I'm not much one for man-made spectacle.

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in OK, so we're in Las Vegas.:

I'm not much one for man-made spectacle.

You’re a musical theater guy. That’s nothing but manmade spectacle…

Seriously, the Treasure Island Show is a Broadway show.

[Mik]

No. Cats is spectacle. The Drowsy Chaperone is a Broadway musical.

[Mik]

I looked. The pirate show is no more, replaced by an Avengers themed something or other.

https://www.free-city-guides.com/las-vegas/treasure-island/

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in OK, so we're in Las Vegas.:

I looked. The pirate show is no more, replaced by an Avengers themed something or other.

https://www.free-city-guides.com/las-vegas/treasure-island/

Really? How frigging stupid. That show was fantastic. Great music and singing, really incredible stunts and pyrotechnics, and hot girls dressed as sirens and Pirates. That’s a damn shame. And what the hell does The Avengers have to do with Treasure Island?

[LuFins Dad]

Shows you how long it’s been since I was there… Actually, it would have been 2012… And that trip was the one with the thunderstorms. I remember thinking I could cross this one street, the water was only 3 inches or so… Then I saw the police officer get bowled over…

[Renauda]

Mik, I highly recommend driving up to Valley of Fire State Park while you are there. It about 45 minutes out of Vegas. It is truly other worldly.

[Mik]

We'd be there tomorrow if it weren't for Hilary. We'll be back at Christmas.

The thing I really want to do is take the girls out to show them the dark sky desert at night. Nothing like it. That'll be close to 100 miles out.

[Copper]

It lives forever on YouTube

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