Canyonlands, Zion, and Las Vegas

Utah isn't all Mormons and salt lakes, y'know! They have arches to climb, magnificent sunsets, and crows tailing your every move. From traversing mountains to wading through rivers, the one-two punch of Canyonlands and Zion was an outdoorsman's delight! From there we made off to Sin City, where we lost Alex in a roulette spin gone awry. Never fear, though; we won him back by night's end, and Hot Shot Andy Frank earned enough extra dough at the Black Jack table to treat us to a room service dessert buffet (with plenty to spare!). The next day, we blitzed through the Mojave, and as soon as we hit bumper-to-bumper traffic, we knew we'd made it to California. Sure, we'd lost Gram'a Joad, Grampa Joad, our two dogs and the Preacher along the way, but the core of our happy lil' fambly was still alive and kicking!