It's A Dry Heat

Let me start by saying hot is hot.  We arrived in Las Vegas yesterday before lunch, and when we stepped outside it was 95.  It felt wonderful, for about 10 minutes. Then all 8 of us were commenting on how hot it was and when was the van coming with the A.C.?  There was a lot of packing into the van - and surprise!  We could have packed more, since we have tons of room.  Lots of shopping coming up today though at Walmart for coolers, food, beverages and camp chairs.  Guess that will fill it all up. 
Once we got to, and checked into, the Circus Circus Hotel (very family friendly) we ate at the endless buffet.  They were not kidding.  Ponderosa in Williston has nothing on this buffet - room after room of healthy and kid (read unhealthy) choices.  Then it was on to the pool.
Good Grief.  Its a dry heat.  Being from Vermont, hot is hot.  When it is 90 degrees, and 50% humidity - the men sweat and the women glow.  It was 108 by the time we got to the pool at 2:30, the sun was out and the wind was present.  Not the breeze that we were expecting from the weather report.  This was a wind that took caps off heads, dried the water off your body when you climbed out of the pool before you could get to your towel, and dried out your eyes to the point they couldn't even water!  It was hot, damn hot. 
But it felt so good, because it was so different.  However, we were not staying out there all day and turning into one of those brown (or beet red) sunbathers, buying $15 drinks at the poolside bar.  We spent 2 hours in the limited shade skipping from pool to lounger and back again.  The kids stayed in the water the whole time, and by kids I mean Nick, Carissa, Connor, Tressa and Dave - the big kid.  They made friends with lots of others and played a mean game of shark.  When we ask the kids at the end of summer what their favorite thing was - we are pretty sure it will be that game of shark (tag in the pool).
We are heading out this morning after breakfast.  We all went to sleep at 8:00 last night since we were so tired, and were all awake by 5:00.  So here I sit at 6 am, ready to go!  We are off to Denney's for breakfast, then to Walmart and finally land at the North Rim of Grand Canyon around 3:00. 
Next time I will try to load in some pictures!