Viva Las Vegas Page #3

we could go dancing or something.

- Oh, you want to go dancing?

- Or something.

- Are you a good dancer?

- Try me.

That I will.

Meet me at the university gymnasium

tomorrow morning at 9:00...

...and we'll dance.

Or something.

Okay, kids, relax.

- Hi.

- Hi.

Do you want to join us?

If I'm caught, they'll take my license.

- You wanted to dance.

- Not here.

- Are you gonna chicken out?

- Yeah.

- Let's cut out of here.

- On one condition.

The kids are expecting you

to do something.

So if you don't want to dance, sing.

I know you can do that.

- Okay, but then we cut out, right?

- Right.

- This is fun.

- It's the only way to travel.

That's Hoover Dam.

One of the seven modern civil

engineering wonders of this century.

It's over 700 feet from the Colorado River

below to the top of the dam.

The dam helps make enough electricity

to light up homes 300 miles away.

Fly with Rusty Martin

and complete your education.

I do sound like a guide.

Where are we going?

That way.

That's Lake Mead behind the dam.

Do you see it?

Continue, professor.

All right. The lake has

...and that's the marina

there ahead of us.

And there you can go

sailing, boating, fishing...

...swimming, water-skiing...

You said the magic word.

- I did?

- Yeah. Hang on, here we go.

- Where are you from, Rusty?

- Dubuque.

I've never been, but it's

interesting that you're from there.

Before you get too attached to Dubuque,

we moved there from Chillicothe, Ohio.

How about that.

I've never been there either.

Don't fall in love with Chillicothe.

Before that we lived in Helena,

Arkansas. On the Mississippi.

The Mississippi.

A great place to be born.

I wasn't.

I was born here in Las Vegas.

- You're putting me on?

- No.

- That's a coincidence.

- What?

You were born here, and after

all that traveling I met you here.

It must mean something.

All it means is my father came here

to work on the dam...

...and he liked it and he stayed.

We live right over here.

I sort of remember Las Vegas

was nothing much then.

A place where people came

to get married.

Came to get married.

Still do I guess.

I suppose. It's a thing

I'm not very much interested in.

Me neither. I guess you got big plans

for your future, haven't you?

You'll probably find it

very dull and commonplace...

...but I want to earn enough

to help my father buy a boat.

- A boat?

- Yes.

He runs a sightseeing boat

on the lake now.

My father's the kind of a man who

doesn't like to work for other people.

He wants to work for himself.

He's never had a chance to

because of taking care of me.

For a long time

it's been my father and me.

He's the kind of man

who likes to work for himself.

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