Las Vegas, September 3-6

Boris took me to Vegas for my birthday and it was great and extra HOT!
We went to see "O" which was GREAT GREAT GREAT! Dinner at Wolfgang Puck's Spago on my birthday and lunch at the same place the next day. We also had a weirdly huge sandwich (see attached picture) at Carnegie (Mirage) & great Sushi at Mandalay Bay. We also went to the Red Square (Mandalay bay) which had a beheaded Lenin statue at the entrance - not much Russian traditional food but still nice. My favorites were Caesar's palace, Venician and New York where we went to an awesome bar with live music and a big crowd.

North Cascades NP, August 27th

Mt St Helen's, August 18-20

We spent the weekend at Mt St Helen's, an active volcano-last erupted in 1980.
We spent one day in the blast zone on the North-West side of the mountain looking at the crater and the un-earth-like landscape. The second day was dedicated to the South side of the mountain which was affected much less by the 1980 eruption, we went into the Ape Cave Lava tube (a lava tube was formed when the surface of a lava flow cooled and hardened, but the molten lava beneath the surface continued to flow about 1900 years ago) and into the Lava Canyon which has incredible waterfalls.