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Yes I know it's been a couple of days but you know what they say "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" hahaha - and there was this little thing that kind of annoyed me .....they charged you for everything!!!! Now we have been in some pretty remote areas and the internet was always free but not in Tinsel Town. So here is a quick synopsis of our last couple of days. Before we left Barstow CA we found a real neat pub "Molly's Pub" where most of the people complained that the drinks were too strong.....when we cried "bring em on" we became good as locals and our second drinks were twice as big as our first. Soo maybe we should start looking at some real estate hahaha. The next morning we took off through the desert over the mountains and back into the desert - as we passed into Nevada right on the border were a few casinos....25 miles closer to Vegas were the billboards and then like Hudini the roads got wider and the traffic appeared from seemingly no where - boy is the gambler a strange critter or what!!! We made reservations in the Monte Carlo and am amazed how much construction is going on. Doesn't anyone know how bad the economy is???? We had lunch in the casino's pub and talked about how much Vegas had changed since we were first there in 1975....hell how much have we changed gulp....is it for the better or what???? The minimum bets on the tables are a lot higher, my hair is a lot shorter and suddenly turned RED, Big Dogs is a lot longer but a whole lot less of it, we're walking a whole lot slower and lets not forget the road dust under our fingernails...yikes what's going on???? Since we planned to spend 2 days in Vegas and we were already married - sorry Elvis chapel!! we decided to spend a relaxing day at the pool. Not too shabby - we tried to read our books but the people watching was so much better. There were the old, the young, the beautiful, the not so beautiful. And while we were at it Big Dog was surveying the belly button rings ....the jury is out on the results haha. Now we are up to Monday the 22nd....we left Vegas and headed to Utah through the Zion Nat'l Park which was so breathtaking and unbelievable. There was a tunnel on one of the roads that was a mile and a half long. It was so dark inside you had to remove your sunglasses....oh yes they forgot to tell you that you couldn't pull over and it was a no stop zone.....they yelled as you went pass to pull them down on your nose....isn't life on the road grand!!! On the way there we actually went right through a mountain range. How the hell do they blast through, clean it up and make it straight, pave it, add some Jersey barriers and a few signs and call it a scenic pass WOW gotta love America. We are now staying in Kanab Ut in one of the last 2 or 3 rooms available phew that was a close one....I guess the weak dollar has brought a whole bunch of euro "visitors" taking in our beautiful Country..and I do mean beautiful....what a thrill !!!! Well happy, happy trails, the Flame and the Big Dog