Hot Day in Boulder City (5/22/14)

Today was a quiet day after a couple long days of driving. I did get up at the crack of dawn to do some yoga while watching and snapping pictures of the sun coming up over the lake. Since we were expecting warm (hot) temperatures (and no air) we decided to add another tarp on the other side of the trailer. This would give us shade in the PM when the sun was on the awning side of the trailer. We took a walk over to “RV City” which is the commercial side of the park. (a good Sam’s RV park) Where we are paying $5 per night for a lake view with the senior discount, they are paying about $48 per night. That does include “FREE” electric, water, sewer and Wi-Fi! At 9 AM we headed over to the visitor center to watch the park movie and get a plan of what to do over the next few days. We headed into Boulder City which was one of the first planned cities due to the building of the Hoover/Boulder Dam. Due to the managed growth, they did not see the massive housing bust  that was seen by Henderson & Las Vegas just down the road. The original houses are still in the city and you could tell the ones for the workers vs. the ones for the engineers and managers. We finally used up one of the gift cards that I got from Volvo for my retirement. I decided that we would use them strictly for meals out in unique places. Today it was Boulder Dam Brewing Company. Good food, good beer, good company – what could be better than that? We wandered in and out of the various shops, saw some art and history and then made it back to the campground. A day of 12 miles travel! We caught up on some reading, I washed the trailer and then took a dip in the lake. We enjoy walking the loops of the campground in the evening, and the sky over us is clear with stars, but in the distance the lights of Vegas shine brightly.