Today we spent in Las Vegas, and went to see the Hoover Dam. This is Day 17 for us guys. The Hoover Dam was built to control flooding in the Colorado River, but it also generates electricity for the surrounding area.
<-- This is Nathaniel and Theodore (me) standing in front of Hoover Dam.
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.<-- These are some of the generators in Hoover Dam. Enough water goes through one of these generators in 6 seconds to fill an Olympic swimming pool.
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<-- These winged statues are called The Winged Figures of the Republic. "They express the immutable calm of intellectual resolution, and the enormous power of trained physical strength, equally enthroned in placid triumph of scientific accomplishment." -- Oskar Hansen
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