After we left the Grand Canyon Caverns, the trip to Vegas was quite a beautiful display of weather, as mother nature wreaked havoc on the desert hiway. The wind was blowing hard and the skyfire danced across the hazy desert sky. While the rain and lightning let up by the time we arrived in Vegas, the wind still blew HOT, such that even the super air conditioning of our hotel was unable to compensate.

Can you believe it's over a hundred degrees in this photo. I had never experienced such heat after midnight.

By the next day, the wind had let up, but not the heat. It was so extremely hot, as we tried to walk the strip. We found a small bit of reprieve in the oasis of the Flamingo Hotel.

My nephew and I wandered around the Flamingo Hotel grounds for about an hour trying to find the flamingos and zoo that was advertised in the site map. We found some plastic flamingos, and eventually found the real ones.

We spent a lot of time playing in the FAO Schwartz toy store at Caesar's Palace. Here, a homesick Jared cries "I want my Mummy!!"

 

And soon my mom befriends a rather grouchy fellow with a fondness for garbage.