Vegas Baby!

	Forget the bunny ears. On Easter Sunday we'll be at the inaugural Champ Car Grand Prix of Las Vegas. The race tickets have been booked. The hotel has been booked. The air fare has been booked... Wait a minute... According the to the tickets we'll be arriving a week early. Oh dear, whatever will we do with all that time.......
	Day 1 - Saturday 7:00 AM - Depart PDX 9:30 AM - Arrive LAS 1:30 PM - Mario Andretti Racing School at the Las Vegas Super Speedway We'll be doing the Champ Ride program in which you ride along in a open-wheel two-seater. Our driver will be doing a simulated qualifying run which should top out at 180MPH!
	We'll leave LV at mid-afternoon heading north to Zion National Park. It's not on Elizabeth's top things to see list so we'll blow through pretty quickly. Our main goal is to get to Bryce Canyon National Park before they close the gates.
	Day 2 - Sunday Bryce Canyon National Park We hope to be at the rim before sunrise. After burning our retinas for a couple hours we'll probably take a horse back ride down into the canyon. Finishing up Bryce in the early afternoon we'll have a hell of a ride northwest to Arches National Park. It'll be a real butt burner of a ride, probably 5 or 6 hours. On the way we'll pass through Capitol Reef National Park.
	Day 3 - Monday Arches National Park One of Elizabeth's top places to see. There are a few good spots that offer shorts hikes into the lumpy landscape. Again we'll try to be out of the park in the early afternoon. Then we'll head south to Monument Valley.
	Monument Valley With any luck we should be at Monument Valley at the end of the day to enjoy a spectacular sunset in this amazing place. When the coyotes start howling we'll head west to Page, Arizona.
	Day 4 - Tuesday Antelope Canyon I didn't visit this place on my canyon tour back in 1999. It looks amazing. Let's see, where did I put my camera... Oh yeah, its broken. Hm, whatever will I do about that? We'll head to the Grand Canyon and hope to be there in the late afternoon for the sunset.
	Day 5 - Wednesday Grand Canyon National Park All day looking a big ditch. We had hoped to go to visit the north rim, but it will not be open. So we'll go to the tourist heavy south rim.
	Day 6 - Thursday Las Vegas and Cirque du Soleils O A long drive back to Las Vegas. Check in at the Palace Hotel and then finish off the long road trip with a show. We saw a behind the scenes movie on the making of Zumanity and it just looked too weird, and not that interesting. So we opted for O.
	Day 7 - Friday Champ Car - Qualifying - Day 1 Whew! Back with old friends. This will be the first time we get to see the new Champ Car - Panoz DP01 - in person. 8:00 AM - 8:35 AM Atlantic Practice 8:50 AM - 10:00 AM CHAMP CAR PRACTICE 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Streets Open 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM HGP Practice 12:45 PM - 1:20 PM Atlantic Qualifying **1:30 PM - 1:50 PM "Fast Lap" Pace Car On Track Activities 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM CHAMP CAR QUALIFYING **3:20 PM - 4:00 PM "Fast Lap" Pace Car On Track Activities 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Drifting Challenge 4:45 PM - 5:15 PM HGP Practice
	Day 8 - Saturday Champ Car - Qualifying - Day 2 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM Atlantic Practice 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM HGP Practice 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM CHAMP CAR PRACTICE 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM Streets Open 12:00 PM - 12:35 PM Atlantic Qualifying **12:40 PM - 1:20 PM "Fast Lap" Pace Car On Track Activities 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM CHAMP CAR QUALIFYING **2:55 PM - 3:25 PM Drifting Challenge 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM HGP Qualifying
	Day 9 - Sunday Champ Car - Grand Prix 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM CHAMP CAR WARM UP 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM Atlantic Warm Up 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM HGP Race 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM "Fast Lap" Pace Car On Track Activities 12:15 PM GRID CHAMP CARS 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM START OF VEGAS GRAND PRIX (Race Number 1 of the 2007 Champ Car World Series) 3:45 PM Grid Atlantics (Pit Lane) 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Atlantic Race Once the races is over we'll pack up and head for home.