Vacation Day 3–I am still a tourist! (Pt 2 of Day 3)

After departing from the Hoover Dam I stopped at the scenic overlook on my way out. This is the body of water that feeds into the Hoover Dam. It is such a different site from what we see in MN.
It was nice to use my zoom lens to get some closer shots of the water features.
If I hadn’t been alone, it might have been kinda fun to see where this tunnel led to.
From Boulder City to Las Vegas, the clouds looked daunting.
From over to the right you can see the rain was pouring like crazy!
After getting back to Vegas, I checked with the Stratosphere again and sure enough the cloudy weather posed too much of a lightening threat so they wouldn’t let anyone go up. I was bummed! So instead I started walking down the strip to see what sites I could take pics of. Here are some things I saw. Oh and I am such a secret photographer about snatching shots of people!
2 or 3 miles into my walk, the rains actually came. I hailed a taxi and got a ride back to my car and swung over to pick Minsan up at the conference.
A serious rain storm indeed, lots of lightening and wind.
At 8:00 we headed over to the Bellagio restaurant called Olives. We had reservations there to eat with Minsan’s partner Tamara.
This is the only shot I took at the restaurant…remember the whole soooo dark thing at Vegas restaurants. The food we ate was super expensive, BUT soooo good. We really enjoyed our meal there!
Here ends day 3.