The lake is extremely low.  It was kind of frightening to see how much the water level has dropped in recent years.
We went back to Vegas and set out for the Bellagio to see the waters and the conservatory.  The theme was Chinese New Year.  The pictures are pretty dark and they were hard to take because of the amount of people visiting to conservatory. 

   
   

  

I hope you can tell that the conservatory is stunning.  It’s really great in person.  We stayed at the Bellagio until 11 and then returned home. We need our beauty sleep to be tourists tomorrow.

 

Here are more pictures after we went inside. 

 

 

  
 The following picture was taken from the ventilation shaft that is 270 feet from the top of the dam.  It looks like a shield when you look at the front of the dam.

 

    
 
 

We started the day by meeting some of Beverly’s friends for breakfast in Green Valley.  This worked out well because Green Valley is on the way to Hoover Dam.  Lots of winding steep roads to get to the Dam.  The Dam is awesome!  It’s only 34 miles from Vegas and well worth the trip.  I suggest the Dam tour which takes you into the center of the dam.  Only one problem – the gift shop had no Dam t-shirts!  Lots of pictures of tunnels. 

  

 
 
  
 

  
 

We had a long day of travel. We landed in Vegas at 7pm Vegas time, picked up the rental car and went to our hotel to check in.  Then we headed to Fremont street for drinks and gambling and maybe food.  We returned to the hotel around 1am – so we had a very long day. No we didn’t win.