Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Las Vegas and Yosemite

We’ve done a whole lot of actual traveling in the last few weeks, and have been fortunate to make it to some really incredible places. After Lightning in a Bottle we were able to meet up with one of Sam’s college friends who was getting married in Las Vegas. We found the perfect RV park… nothing special about the park itself, but it was about a block from Fremont Street. If you haven’t been to downtown Las Vegas, check it out! It’s kind of like… old school 80’s glam with cheap tables. They have these awesome free concerts with people like “the drummer from Motley Crew.” It’s like the Who’s Who of Where Are They Now! We were able to gamble for cheap on our side of town, and go live it up wedding-style on the strip, which included a poolside cabana on the roof of Planet Hollywood. 


On our last night we had an awesome date night at the Stratosphere, the tallest building in Vegas. Sam rode all of the crazy rides at the top as much as he could before our dinner at Top of the World restaurant, which slowly rotates for a full 360 view of Las Vegas during your meal. We finished the night off watching Bite, a sexy rock-n-roll themed vampire show. It was awesome! No Cirque du Soilel, mind you, but super fun just the same.


After going to LIB, I finally jumped on the Festie bandwagon with Sam, so we decided to skip southern California entirely and head north to where the festivals (and better weather) are. So our next stop heading north was Yosemite National Park. We only had one day to spend there, which is not nearly enough! It’s kind of like going to a nature version of Disney World, but we found with a little climbing, you can get away from most of the crowds. We saw some beautiful things, but our favorite time was bouldering up the side of Lower Yosemite Falls. We ended up about halfway up the height of the falls, far away from almost everyone, with stunning views of the rocks over the trees and so close it felt like we could reach out and touch the falls. It was one of the best days I’ve ever had with Sam. These photos do not do the experience justice!


 Up next: Lake Tahoe and the Bounce!

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