Driving out to Hoover Dam...a plane caught my eye!

Becca takes in the immensity of the thing...

Tami is claustrophobic, so I took her mind off it while we rode in the packed elevator...

Tami & Jim at the dam...

Tami and Hoover Dam....

Plaque commemorating the guys who died building the dam

Looking downstream....

Giant gates...

Giant statues -- everything is GIGANTIC!

Joe peers into the canyon...

Looking tough at 15....

Kids with the giant statues...

Posing with the statues...

Mary and the dam...

Mary and the kids...

Nevada-side intake towers...

The old elevators that we used to ride to the bottom...

This really captures the slope of the thing...

Looking down the dam wall...

That's a 60+ story slide -- ouch!

The Honeck Family at Hoover Dam....

The Arizona-side intake towers...

The generators are HUGE...

Another view of the generator room...

Kids in the generator room...

Back on the strip...

Caesar's Palace is stunning...

Gondolas in the Venetian....

A better view...

Jim & Joe in the Hawaiian-themed restaurant...

Tami, Jim, Joe, Bec & Mary at dinner...

Without a flash?

Jim taking pix of the Strip...

Waiting for the show (at Treasure Island) to start...

The MGM Golden Lion looms over the strip...

Margaritas -- by the YARD -- yeeha!

They look happy, no?