The hotel has a nice wave pool and a lazy river that people could drift around the pool area on. With the temperature expected to be around 40 degrees little persusion was needed to get our monies worth and join the people doing the same. For the evening we went to see Cirque du Soleil's Zumanity at New York New York (a casino with you guest it a New York theme). This was one of the top shows that we managed to get for a massively reduced price. There was lots o...

Checking into the very posh for us Monte Carlo hotel on the Vegas strip. This is so we can be in the same hotel as Liz's sister and husband (Claire and Andrew) that have come out to see us. We are currently killing time by the pool until we can either get into the room or it is time to pick Claire AKA 'Clure' up from the airport. We are also trying to recover from an enormous burger we had at lunch. The blog picture is from our room on the 28th floor, poor old ...

Before we set off for the short 70 mile journey to Vegas we went to Wall Mart to buy some food. It is amazing what you can buy in these superstores, checkout the hunting outfit with decoy (blog picture). Other stuff ranges from guns to foca detergent. We also took the opportunity of getting our hair cut here. Trying to describe what you want in Spanish (central America next stop) can be tricky as I found out in Equador once (without the picture of Ricky Martin I ...

We left Kanab and mad Wayne, a bit sad we liked it here. The plan was to go to Zion but the thought of going through the road works on the way was not appealing and we were still a bit knackered from yesterdays hike. We took a different route that ran along Utah, Arizona and eventually into Nevada missing out Zion. As we dropped down the temperature started to rise, at 5000ft it was 96 F. We however have dropped to probally the same altitude as Vegas at 1000ft a...

Zion has been hyped by the Americans and it didn't dissapoint. It is one of the few places that Americans are forced to leave their monster cars in car parks and use a free shuttle to get around. The free shuttle has a happy slappy feel to it. The usual on the left you will see this and these sandstone mountains are the largest in the world type commentary info. Zion is also the first park (maybe Bryce also) where you feel that you need to hike to see the park ...