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Tuesday, June 22, 2010 We stayed at the Las Vegas Hilton. Now I am totally not a gambling kinda girl, nor do I have any illusion about the true nature of "Las Vegas" however the hotel rates in Vegas were $45.00 a night so our budget conscious nature won out and we tried as best we could to overlook the less desirable aspect of "Sin City". This was the view from our room. The very tall thin gold building is the Trump International Hotel , and you can see the Wynn and the Encore as well! We enjoyed our complementary Breakfast Buffet thanks to the hubs Gold Status. I had a freshly made spinach and cheese omelet made just for little ol' me! After fortifying ourselves of all the huge Breakfast Buffet had to offer we headed out to see Hoover Dam. The evening before as we drove into Las Vegas we had to cross over the dam as we entered into Nevada. This lengthy process took nearly 45 minutes as we had to wait in bumper to bumper traffic to pass throug...