So we decided on our way home from Arizona to try a new way home - usually you have to take a two lane highway most of the way and since it was motor home season, we opted to go through Lake Havasu and cross the Hoover Dam...BAD IDEA!!! As we approached the Dam, traffic was backed up 5 miles just to GET to Hoover Dam. (Hello...Spring Break - what were we thinking!!!)
It took us an hour to go 5 miles - with two boys who had pee like none other!! (We were moving slow enough in the line of cars that a husband let his wife or girlfriend out to do the same and she had to run FOREVER to catch him again) So, the boys had to just hold it. Once we actually got the the entrance of the Hoover Dam we pulled off the road where the bathrooms were and a gift shop, we all got out stretched our legs, took a picture, and wondered around for a minute before getting back in the car to cross the Dam.
Check out the line of cars...it winds all the way through the Dam...we were at the top waiting to come down into the canyon.
"Princess Cottam" impatiently waits...(Colby got a girl toy in his happy meal, so they asked me to wear it.)
Jonathan shows off the Billion Dollar Bill that the lady at the gift shop gave him.
Yes, we were moving slow enough that I took this picture from a moving car...a few years ago the water was almost to the top of the Dam...
Finally to the other side...this is the new bridge they are building, so if you don't actually want to spend 2 1/2 hours trying to get across the Dam, you won't have to. In all reality we had a good time and we ended up getting home at the same time we would have if we had gone the other way, but note to self...avoid ANY tourist attractions during spring break!
