Las Vegas and another birthday

We finally have some internet coverage.  We are currently in Moab, Utah and it has been over a week since we've seen McDonalds or Walmart, quite a remarkable statement here in the USA.  We've been busy travelling east across Utah, visiting five national parks, two national recreation areas and one national monument.  The scenery is just amazing and I don't think the little photos we post here do things justice, but here is a little catch up of where we've been since our last posts. 

What was planned to be a quick stop in Las Vegas for some provisioning and a look around stretched out to include a birthday celebration and Good Friday.  Neither Phil, Chris or I have been to Vegas and suffice to say, it lives up to it's reputation.  Plenty of bright lights down on the strip, lots of people from all over and everyone with the answers to absolutely everything if you care to stand around and listen.

Check out the price here for 1.75 litres of Rum. To bad they don't want a polar bear on the label.



The generator needed it's 50 hr service and we were able to book it in at an RV dealer for Friday, April 6.  Apparently Easter isn't a big deal of a public holiday here like it is in Australia where we get a four or five day weekend.  For us that meant a couple of things.  First, we'd be temporarily homeless and how could Phil bake Chris's birthday cake?  Thursday Phil baked the cake and we all had to have some that night, it was really good...a rum cake.

The second problem, temporary homelessness, was solved by the casino across the street from the RV place.  It was breakfast time when we dropped our RV off and conveniently, the casino had a huge breakfast buffet, so we had birthday breakfast there.

Later in the day, we collected our home and settled into our RV park before heading out to the strip for one last look, a pirate show and a nice birthday dinner.  The next day we headed out of Nevada, to the state of Utah.