Howdy Everyone!!<\/p>\n
Well I had this very lengthy post \u2013 with lots of pictures, links & humor but it didn\u2019t seem to want to post and sadly I am starting fresh!<\/p>\n
These past few days have flew by \u2013 and sorry to see this is our last day in Vegas. Tomorrow we will venture out in the wee hours of the morning to Serendipity (http:\/\/www.caesarspalace.com\/casinos\/caesars-palace\/restaurants-dining\/serendipity-3-detail.html<\/a>) to have one of their to die for belgium waffles \u2013 the link as a beautiful picture of what I will consume for breakfast \u2013 all 2000 calories of it. Then we will come back \u2013 pack our wares & head off to the airport. We\u2019ll be flying Alaska Airways to Seattle for a small layover and then be in Beautiful Victoria around 7:30pm.\u00a0 Good time to find our rental car & Caddy\u2019s Carriage House which we\u2019ll be calling home for our duration. For the Coastal people it\u2019s over by the Ross Bay Cemetary area.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve made it down to the pool deck to lay in the heat for the last 2 days \u2013 survived 2 hours out there today as Chloe creeped me from the air conditioned hotel room. It was more of a rotational \u2013 lay in the sun, get into the pool to cool down, lay back in the sun, get into the pool to cool down \u2013 phew I wonder how people who live here stay white??\u00a0 Oh yes there are some white people that live here \u2013 our tour guide was one of them.<\/p>\n Yesterday we went out on a Pink Jeep Tour (http:\/\/pinkjeeptours.com\/las-vegas\/<\/a>) if you ever get a chance I recommend it\u2026that is if you\u2019re like me and come to visit for everything BUT gambling & booze.\u00a0 We took in the half day tour to Eldorado Canyon \u2013 our stop was the Techatticup Mine (http:\/\/www.legendsofamerica.com\/nv-eldorado.html<\/a>) which was fully operational from 1861-1942.\u00a0 After that it sat abandoned for 50 years!!\u00a0 Tony & Bobbie Werly\u00a0came along and wanted to buy the land for a staging area for their canoe guided trips on the Mohave Lake. Two days before the land sale closed they were wandering around the land and came across cool air escaping from within a pile of tailings (it looks like hard potato soup \u2013 which was left over from the mining days). The opening was just large enough for Tony to crawl into \u2013 he crawled in about 50 feet before he could stand up and could see tunnels going in different directions\u2026.so they changed directions and decided to do mine tours.\u00a0 I seem to recall it took several years to clean out the section they do tours in as well as run lights, sprinklers (safety code) and get licenses, etc. but I tell ya \u2013 it was freaking cool to be in there.\u00a0 In all we toured about 500 feet of it and barely made a dent.\u00a0 Here is some interesting history of the mine (http:\/\/www.legendsofamerica.com\/nv-eldorado.html<\/a>) \u2013 there was not nearly enough time to get to look at all the cool stuff they have spread about the 51 acres of land but what we did see was COOL.\u00a0 Little gun shy about attaching a picture as I think that\u2019s where I went wrong with the post that disappeared on me \u2013 so I\u2019ll add one at the end. After the tour we went further down the road to Lake Mohave \u2013 which was once a very thriving Sea Port \u2013 as it accessed the Sea of Cortez.\u00a0 Our guide, Shanin, was awesome \u2013 he (yes he was a male \u2013 the second male Shannon I\u2019ve met) answered all our questions and was very funny with little tidbits about the area\u00a0& such.<\/p>\n Once back at the Hotel we ventured out for more shopping & people watching \u2013 then went to the Circque de Soleil show \u2013 Mystere (http:\/\/www.cirquedusoleil.com\/en\/shows\/mystere\/tickets\/las-vegas.aspx<\/a>\u00a0 click on preview the show to see a small portion of what we witnessed) \u2013 its such an interested show that 2 hours goes by so quickly!!\u00a0 Chloe was amazed that they had a theatre of that size within the hotel \u2013 seating capacity 1671.<\/p>\n