Don't be fooled. Just because it was Friday today and you may have planned on traveling away from Las Vegas, it doesn't mean that the traffic crossing Hoover Dam will be light. I think everyone in Las Vegas decided to leave town today so they would beat the traffic on Sunday. Hah! The laugh's on us. The line to cross the Dam (expletive, expletive, expletive Dam) started just outside of Boulder City. If my son had been more energetic, he could have climbed out of the car which was traveling at a little less then 1 mph, and he could have walked to the Dam, taken a whole roll of pictures with his camera, and still have been waiting for us. There is a Dam bypass in the works but it will be years before it is completed. In the meantime, all traffic coming and going over the Dam must pass through security checkpoints. I'm not complaining about this (though I'd love to string a certain group of terrorists up by their toes and let the Dam catfish feed on them..slowly. I think they'd make perfect stinkbait.). What I want to know is why this bypass wasn't built years and years ago? Oh well. Stay away from Hoover Dam on weekends and anytime close to a holiday unless you like standing in line or unless you just can't help it.

Today's Little Bit of Trivia

Legend has it that Cupid cut Venus' fingernails while she was sleeping and left the clippings scattered on the ground. The Fates turned them into stone so that no part of Venus would ever disappear. The stone is called onyx which is Greek for "fingernail".