The rest of So Cal and Vegas

Took a little hiatus from posting about our trip but I'll get back to it to appease family. After San Francisco we continued South toward you know where...that's right...Las Vegas. On the way we stopped in Modesto (Helena's hometown! Woot!), Fresno, Redlands, and Palm Springs. Palm Springs was where Ben and I honeymooned and though it was good to see it...it was better to see it from an air conditioned car. Hot, hot, hot.

Fresno Temple

Redlands Temple

Palm Springs hotel

I proceeded to take trillions of pictures of the windmills on the way out of Palm Springs. I love windmills. Blogger wouldn't let me upload all of them so you just get one.

I wish I could say he got his eyelashes from me.

We got to Las Vegas and with downcast eyes, finally found our hotel. We stayed at the luxurious Circus Circus. I hope Ben listens to me the next time I'm suspicious of the hotel price in Las Vegas. The room wasn't that bad....but it wasn't that good either. Oh well. Live and learn. We were pretty pooped from all the driving so we didn't venture out into the city until the next day. We started out in the morning and tried to duck into air conditioned buildings whenever we could. It was so incredibly hot there.

Look out Bryant!

The Venetian....loooooved the canals.

Lots of cool statues at the Caesar's Hotel mall.

Will got a panda from FAO Schwartz.

From Vegas we proceeded North towards family and cooler air. After this monster of a trip we won't be traveling for a loooooong time.