Our first day with Mom and Dad Gray and unfortunately also our first day of lousy weather:( It was extremely windy and only about 18C which feels very cool when you are used to 30+.
We made a quick stop at McDonald's for a non-healthy, but edible breakfast and made our way to Red Rock Canyon. What an amazing site to see. The rock formation & colors were hard to capture on "film". It was also difficult choosing which ones to post as we took many, many photos! :) We commented on how brilliant it must look when it is wet with rain. We took the scenic tour & got out at the lookout points to walk around and take photos. The wind was very strong, and did make us shorten our visit a bit. Red Rock Canyon is a paradise for rock climbers and we were able to see a few climbers in action.
Many sensational rock formations!
Looking down at this canyon, we didn't have time to do the full hike (there's an 11 mile hike that you can do)... maybe next time!
Megan found a great spot to look down... waaaaay down.
All the different layers & swirls are very interesting! Looks like Joshua is holding up this bolder effortlessly!
Grandma pointing something out while the children try to not blow away!!
We drove along and stopped at the lookout points... as we drove away from the main red rock area, you could see the variegated rocks turn into large patches of color.
We figured we ought to get a photo of Joshua standing BY a Joshua Tree
We stopped in at the Lake Mead lookout point - Sarah's wind-blown look! ;)
We got to the Hoover Dam mid-afternoon. The wind continued to blow like crazy!! We parked over on the Arizona side (for some reason free on this side?!) and wandered down to get a closer look at the dam. The dam and the canyon are incredible to see and impossible to explain adequately.
Sarah mimicking the statue and Joshua seems to find this hysterical!
A viewpoint from the parking lot (on the Arizona side). This is the backside of the dam and the water would be at the top when the lake is full. The 4 'towers' are the water intake tubes that direct water to the turbines at the bottom of the dam about 600 feet below.
It's been nearly 40 days since we've felt cold... and no one seemed to like it much :)
It will be absolutely amazing when this bridge is done - it's unreal how high that is!!
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