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Our Selfie in Vegas |
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What Happened Here? |
Our first stop after Florida
was Memphis Tennessee. Here we visited the Elvis Presley career and
automobile museum and then went across the street to visit
Graceland. We spent all day Sunday touring the Graceland Mansion and
the Elvis exhibits. We purchased the VIP pass which is highly
recommended. We had personal guides and went to the front of the
lines..
After Memphis we drove to Oklahoma City where we visited the
Oklahoma Federal Building Bombing Museum and toured the memorial site for
the Alfred P Murrah Building This is the building that was bombed in 1995 by
Timothy McVey. A total of 168 people lost their lives in what was one of the first
terrorist bombings. We then spent the afternoon in Oklahoma City
visiting the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. It is a huge
facility with acres of displays including a rodeo and heritage town. Great
place to spend a chilly afternoon in Oklahoma City.
We then drove down Route 66 toward Flagstaff, Arizona and
stopped off at the Route 66 Vintage Auto Museum along the way. At Flagstaff
we joined an all day guided tour of the Grand Canon. The tour was awesome
and the guides were really informative. The guides set up a 4 course lunch
complete with china and silverware on a while tablecloth on two picnic
tables in the middle of the park.
From the Grand Canon we drove to the Hoover Dam for another
guided tour.
The Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the
Colorado River, on the border between Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed
between 1931 and 1936. You can see the turbines inside the dam in the photo
at the top right.
We
drove to Las Vegas next where we stayed for a week. Here we visited
Freemont street, took in a Celine Dion show which was awesome and
visited the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop - home of the the Pawn Stars.
We also took the time to stop off at Chapel of the Bells for a very
important ceremony.
Freemont Street Las Vegas
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Visiting Graceland
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Elvis Presley's Lincoln
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Big Guitar in Nashville
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Elvis Presley's Airplane
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Marie at the Grand Canon
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Palm Springs, California
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Marie at Her Brother's
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