Just a little Vegas is perfect

Drove out of Bullhead City this morning without stopping for a morning swim. Thought was to get to Sin City in time to maybe go downtown and tour a chocolate factory or ride a rooftop ferris wheel before finding out hotel and getting ready for Cirque du Soleil and a buffet debauch (are we old if our idea of "Vegas wild" is endless crab legs?)

After a long and slightly featureless drive up the highway, we ducked into Starbucks for a mocha, a morning bun, some internet, and some critically important AC.  Then we headed into town to locate the hotel casino.

Hey, this is a hoot - we have a king suite with two televisions, AC that borders on refrigeration, a pool and spa, a couple restaurants on site - for $36 a night!  That's RIGHT!  Vegas WINN!!!

Except it costs money to sneeze.  (Yup, I cleaned that up a bit.) Printing two show tickets from my e-mail:  $10.  Internet access for our one-night stay: $12. And so on. It's funny. They may charge to use the towels, I don't know.

Anyway, having gotten IN, the whole concept of OUT is feeling less attractive. So we're thinking we'll hang out here (I need to make sure I get my twelve bucks' worth of internet) until later in the afternoon, maybe swim, and then head out for the show.

Arizona Charlie's. Did you look at the

picture? That will be five dollars.

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And that's what we did. Swam, went and ate pretty good buffet at the MGM Grand - John went for crab legs and prime rib, I found some pretty good green beans and some excellent kale ravioli - and then we went to see Cirque du Soleil's KA. It was just as awe-inspiring and impressive as any Cirque show I've ever seen; their stagecraft and choreography is breathtaking.  It had some of the most beautiful and strangely touching scenes I've seen in a Cirque show, and flashy showmanship and soaring people and storm-tossed ships and flying machines and all the rest of the spectacle that is Cirque du Soleil.  I'm very glad we got to go (John had never seen one of their productions.)

Glad rags, California style.

Sorry Neen - this is as close to a titty bar as we got.

Unless you count Hooters across the street!

The dragon wasn't in the show, but it was

pretty cool.

When we left, almost ten o'clock at night, it was still - well, here's the picture to prove it.

Yup. Down to 106, at nearly ten o'clock at night.

Tomorrow is Death Valley Junction and overnight at the Amargosa Opera House. If you don't know the place, here's a link to a 5 minute video.  It's gonna be an adventure for sure!

https://vimeo.com/150314852