Back to Square One

You may remember from our Camping Basics class at REI (shameless self-hyperlink) back in January 2012 that Step 1 is NAVIGATION: know how to stay oriented.

For you Vegasphiles, I challenge you to identify the famous Las Vegas landmarks in the following photos from Top of the World:

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I am proud that Amanda and I were able to identify directions and landmarks, and it only took us a combined total of 14 years of living here to be able to do so.

The views were fantastic, and the marketing was clever. The restaurant rotates, but the tower doesn't. So a cart of faux desserts sits on the tower and twice in an hour-long lunch, you rotate past the dessert cart. Here was the view of my dessert:

And for the entertainment of everyone involved...

No skyjumpers flew by during lunch. But we did get to wave to some riders on the Insanity.

For your further photographic love of Vegas, see Krista's interpretation of the Boneyard (another self-hyperlink) over on the Wannabe.

A Fitting Memorial

Let's begin this post with the actual memorial for Memorial Day, "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae:

And now to add in some photos of and/or taken by myself, as I enjoyed this morning off by hanging out with Krista in the Boneyard. Here then, unformatted and in no particular order, I give you the history of Las Vegas.

Our tour guide (Troy?) under the city's founding date on an old Golden Nugget sign.

In the back is an old sign for the El Cortez, where I like to park my car when I go to Fremont St.

First and last sign you see on your way in/out of the tour.

We reminisced about the days when "T.I." had a family-friendly show.

You were unlikely to have seen anything in the above display that you won't see in anyone's photos who has ever visited the Boneyard. Krista (pictured above) is tres professionnelle, so I look forward to seeing her interpretation, color-corrected and in proper order and format. I'm sure her collection is where my FB profile photo and/or cover photo will come from.

Happy Memorial Day.