Hello everyone.  We hope you all had a great holiday season.  We spent our holidays in the state of Nevada.  While there we visited Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam.

This picture of Lake Mead shows the water level in the lake is very low.

River side of Hoover Dam.  Its hard to show how tall the dam is without any references.

Looking down at the river from the center of the dam.

Lake Mead side of the dam.  Again it is easy to see how low the water is in the lake.

This plague tells a story of a dog who was befriended by the works crews building the dam.  Unfortunately the dog was accidentally killed before the dam was finished.

Statue showing how men worked on the face of the dam.

Old train tunnel and rail bed used to bring supplies to the dam while it was being built.  Today the rail bed is a hiking trail.