We took a look around the Bellagio. This year, there was a duck theme in the Conservatory.

On day 2, we started out nice and early to see Red Rock Canyon,located just a few kilometers west of Las Vegas.

We were about 4000 ft below the rim. You can see another helicopter making it's way down the rock wall. The Stratosphere on the strip is under a thousand feet high.

After Red Rock Canyon, we headed over to the Las Vegas Hilton and had lunch at Quark's Bar & Restaurant, part of the Star Trek Experience attraction.

One of our friends had this Starfleet Salad. His wife had the Cardassian Pockets. Cly had the Petrokian Sausage Jambalaya and Darcie had Moogie's Choice Pasta. We shared the Holy Rings of Betazed appetizer (which was onion rings). It was a pretty fun menu.

Some Dale Chihuly glass sculptures for sale in the Bellagio art shop.

Darcie & I thought our friends' bulletproof Lincoln was a much nicer ride.

We had dinner at Todai, a Japanese seafood buffet in the Alladin hotel back on the strip.

It was pretty hot down on the canyon floor - probably 35 degrees Celsius, which is hot for October.

The Fremont St. Experience includes a sound and light show projected onto a five-block long screen ovrehead.

That evening we checked out Fremont St., part of the "old" Las Vegas.

Ethel Mars was the mother of Forrest Mars, creator of the Mars bar, M&M's and Milky Way.

We saw a few mountain climbers and some of the rocks were just huge.

The famous Golden Nugget hotel and casino on Fremont St.

The Botanical Cactus Garden is right outside the chocolate factory. It has over 350 species of cactus and desert plants from the Southwest and other deserts of the world.

Ethel M makes all kinds of chocolates now, including their deluxe assortment line.

We had to check out the chocolate fountain right beside the Jean-Philippe Patisserie in the Bellagio.

Fancy fountain in the Conservatory

Making crepes in the Jean-Philippe Patisserie.

Cly liked these golden barrel cacti

He probably took less than 10 minutes to create each painting but they were pretty nice.

Some native petroglyphs on a rock wall at Atlatl Rock.

A cactus fire recently made it through this area.

Here's a talented spraypaint artist making lanscape paintings for sale. It was fascinating! We spent about 30 minutes watching the guy.

Live entertainment on Fremont St.

On day 4, we headed out to the Valley of Fire state park, about 90 kilometers northeast of Vegas.

Within a half hour of us landing in Vegas we were doing the tour of the Ethel M chocolate factory. Candy apples are Darcie's favorite treat.

Near the entrance to the Valley of Fire, we spotted this pink jeep tour vehicle.

This mule thing is a Wild Burro. We saw two that day.

Darcie took this photo from the helicopter.

After fliyng back to Vegas, we walked a bit on the strip. This is a view of the Paris Las Vegas hotel from the crosswalk by the Bellagio (where we stayed at last year).

We had dinner that evening at the Wynn buffet. Very tasty!

Lots of sushi at Todai

A little later we stopped by an outdoor mall and sampled some fancy bottles of balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Cly was pretty amazed that some of the bottles of vingear were selling for over US$100.

We loved looking at the old glitzy lights.

We had lunch at Guano Point.

Cly posing with an Andorian. There were a few characters strolling around the Star Trek Experience.

We stopped at the Michael Fatali gallery and saw some amazing nature photography.

Darcie got to sit up front with the pilot. Cly got to lie in the trunk.

There were some native performers at Guano Point.

A speedy tortoise

The Valley of Fire had really spectacular rock formations!

Most of Fatali's photographs we saw were taken with a medium format film camera and not digitally edited.

Replica of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, the main Enterprise featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Cly wasn't sure what the significance of this guitar was but he thought it looked nice.

Our boat driver was nice enough to snap our picture.