Happy 4th of July Everyone!!

There is going to be a HUGE water fight at Grand Canyon National Park... and I'll be right in the middle of it. If I'm lucky I'll be on the firetruck... never run out of water ;) Just spent a few CrAzY days in Vegas!! Not much of which I remember... just kidding. It was crazy though... 99 cent margaritas, penny slots, all the entertainment you could ever want, and the Most Interesting people you could ever hope to sit and watch. I saw the 15 acre flamingo habitat, nude swimming pools everywhere, white tigers, I stood underneath a glass tube below two lions... Anything Goes in Vegas! Apparently they have the largest collection of Ligers in the world too.

I went to see Dr. Van Gunther's Body World exhibition, the craziest coolest strangest thing I've ever seen. This world renown anatomist has an enormous collection of human bodies preserved into a self developed process, called plantation that solidifies the parts into a non-decaying state of rubberized material. He dissects to reveal the processes of digestion, circulatory systems, and all bodily processes including abnormalities and repairs. This may freak you out, but I'll tell you what, there is nothing else like it on the planet! From an artistic-scientific view, his works are simply mind blowing! If you are at all interested you should check out his website :

http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/prelude/human_saga.html

Check out google images to get an idea (if this stuff disgusts you, I don't recommend looking)
http://images.google.com/images?q=bodies%20exhibition&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

Anyways, since I've been spending so much time writing my trek through the grand canyon, there is tons that you've missed out on in the mean time... I won't have time to catch you up on all of it, but I'll soon write a post about the monstrous Bear we found in the woods, the coyotes that wanted to eat CB (while doing an owl call), and maybe I'll do a bit about Edward Abby's Cabin (a famous author), where he wrote some of his books here at the canyon. He was also one of the first rangers of the area, and lived at the highest elevation point on the North Rim, about 9,200 feet.

In the mean time, I'm heading off to Lake Powell for the day, just after a BBQ and water fight, for some away time. I'm broke as hell, (despite the theory of being paid for this job), so as always, It'll be interesting!


In Vegas, I spent $37 of the exhibition, $40 on everything else (food and gambling) , $20 on gas... and never needed more. Maybe $100 is expensive... but I had everything I could have ever wanted. Free place to stay, thanks Scott and Pume! and we split up the gas... so a 10h trip was a lot cheaper.

Who says you have to have money to have a good time? I've found quite the opposite!