Hoover Dam, NV & St. George, UT - June 5, 2008

Thursday, June 5
We got up pretty late, I think we were finally all out of bed around 10am. We got cleaned up, packed up, and checked out and we were on the road again (feel free to get the song stuck in your head). Bonnie made a rather fitting remark on the way out of town, "I feel a little like Lot's wife, but I'm not looking back." We drove to Hoover Dam.

Lake Mead, part of the water that Hoover Dam keeps back.

We didn't go on the official tour as it was quite expensive and was rather warm by the time we got there. For some reason they didn't take our National Parks pass for anything there, which I found rather irritating as the pass says it is good at Bureau of Reclamation sites...of which Hoover Dam is one. Anyhow, we just walked around and looked at the free stuff, took a few pictures and then had lunch at Highscalers Cafe which is there at the dam.

Highscaler statue outside the cafe.

The current road to and over the dam.

After we'd had some lunch, we hit the gift shop, got our magnet and we were off for Utah. 

Unfortunately there was no good way to get to the highway we needed to take into Utah without going back the way we came and passing through Vegas again. This was not fun at all. We were in stop and go traffic for probably a good half hour to go maybe 4 miles. Once we got past all that, it was smooth sailing on into Utah. 

We drove through the Virgin River Gorge, which was quite beautiful in its own way.

We made our way to the town of St. George, UT and checked in to the Days Inn there. After we'd got settled in a little, we decided to venture out and find some dinner. We ended up at The Fairway Grill. I had chicken picotta, a lightly breaded grilled chicken breast with lemon caper butter sauce, a baked potato, grilled veggies, a tasty turkey sage soup and probably one of the best scones I've ever eaten (I let everyone at the table that wanted a taste have some, but secretly I was wishing that the scone was the size of another dinner plate...it was so yummy). After dinner it was back to our room where we lounged around and finally went to bed.