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Published: April 22nd 2019
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Weather: sunny and 80s and gorgeous (Vegas), 60s and beautiful (Williams)
States: Nevada and Arizona
Cities: Las Vegas and Williams
Miles: 230
Hours: 3 hrs 15 min
Sites: Hoover Dam
Restaurant: at Excalibur,
Hotel/Home: Lovely Little Log Cabin in Williams VRBO #1083110
Movies:
Audible: Resisting Happiness (get you thinking book- has a religious base- it is good)
Easter Sunday was perfect. We Packed up our room, grabbed a bite for breakfast and headed to mass on the Strip or behind the Strip, Roman Catholic Shrine of the Most Holy Redeemer. That is a mouthful. We arrived early obviously because it is Easter and we are in tourist land and in Vegas. Three bad combinations for arriving to church late. Those who only go on holy days, those who go on vacation and those in Vegas who danced with the devil the night before and are trying to Holy Redeem themselves. Those were the ones sleeping off a hangover in the back. It was a large church. It filled up. It was an ok mass. Nothing special. After mass, we headed to pick up Stone for brunch at another breakfast
restaurant he likes in the Art district called Esther’s.
Again, it was a trendy cute local restaurant with delicious food. All homemade bread, egg dishes, these to-die-for baked and fried red skin potatoes, pancakes, french toast and the likes.. We ate well in Vegas considering we thought that would be the worst city for food of them all. We said our goodbyes to Stone and headed toward Williams, Arizona via the Hoover Dam.
I think the Hoover dam is cool. I am not one who needs the full internal tour dissecting the inner working of this monumental site but I do like seeing it. We got pulled over at the security check point to have our van opened up for inspection. Underwear falling out, smells wafting out and wrappers swirling out as the side doors open. I think they just wanted to see what the van looked like inside. If he had any intention of inspecting the car, it was a fleeting one after he looked inside. That would have been an all day job.
We drove across the dam to a lot on the far side so we could walk on to the dam. The kids
were not fully embracing this field trip nonetheless, I think they enjoyed seeing it. We got our “I’m in Nevada.” “I’m in Arizona.’ pictures. The two clocks on the dam were pointless to show a time zone difference because Arizona doesn’t participate in the clock change. Party poopers. We didn’t spend much time there before moving on to Williams where we rented a house/cabin for a few days. We plan to see the Grand Canyon and go to Sedona on another day.
We drove through Willams, a little town founded in 1881. You can see the history in between the Safeway and the chain hotels though it is well preserved and looks like a little old town. The Safeway had everything you need. We loaded up on groceries and headed for the house outside of town. It is fairly secluded with a few homes dotted in the trees. We opened a large green cattle gate and drove up a long road driveway into the trees and found a cute little modern log cabin that looked just like the pictures. The inside is just as cute. We got unloaded before dark and started a chicken kabob dinner. Ahhh. Time to
relax. Sort of. Oh yeah, since they were little, we have always hid jellybeans around the house. We didn’t do it at the hotel but i did it when we got back to the house. The kids still ask for them. So I obliged and hid them in the loft. It is still a mad scramble but now they tackle each other. They have fun.
What a great trip we are having.
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