From Awesome David
Monday, 2nd October
Despite a local tragedy, we continued our journey to Las Vegas. The stop that we just had to make was the Hoover Dam - a strange shrine of capitalism and industry. Built in the Art Deco period during the Great Depression, the dam includes massive bronze winged statues and astrological symbols, as well as plaques to those who died in the construction of the dam.
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| Jonty at the Hoover Dam |
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| The great bronze winged statues overlooking the dam. |
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| The family under the monument honouring the original dam builders |
The American flag was flying at half-mast to respect those killed in the previous day's Las Vegas shooting.
On to Vegas, we saw that our accommodation was in a complex just down the road from the Mandalay Bay (where the shooting had occurred), and the police had cordoned off the end of the street. There was a very interesting tone to the town. News reporters had swooped in like vultures and parts of Las Vegas Boulevard were very difficult to walk down because of the cameras.
From Splendid Eliza
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| This is what M&M world looks like from outside (thanks Google) |
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| Some of the colours of M&M's |
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| We just became movie stars, woop woop. |
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| This is what my mum made for her school. |
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Knowing my OCD-ness I found this awesome!!!
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We watched a little movie called: I lost my 'M' in Vegas'and then looked around the store with all the candy dispensers and T-shirts full of M&M pictures. Later that afternoon we went to Hershey World and I got a shirt.
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| Hershey World |
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| In Hershey World there is a Statue of Liberty entirely out of Twizzlers and Hershey Chocolate 
After we went to Hershey Land Dad, Logan and I went on a roller-coaster in New York, New York. It was totally wicked!
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| You can kind of see the roller-coaster behind the replica Statue of Liberty |
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