The Hoover Dam!

Today we left Las Vegas and traveled east to see the Hoover Dam.  It isn't far from LV, but the last few miles were slow and tortuous in single file traffic.  This is obviously what Las Vegan's do when they want to escape the bright lights.  However the end result was worth the journey.  We drove over the dam, parked up and then took a walk over it.  Taking four years to build (1931-1935), the vision of Herbert Hoover particularly, it is an awesome, vertigo-inducing piece of engineering (as is the bridge currently being built next to it).  We particularly liked the art-deco touches.  The resulting water mass, Lake Mead was impressive also.  

Top tune : (for the kids, not us!!!!) - Alvin and the Chipmonks got a lot of air time today! - oh dear.