I like Cirque du Soleil with various acts within the show. But I still came out feeling a little disappointed. Then I had great seats: seventh row center. The show was amazing - no doubt about that. It’s also the first Cirque du Soleil show to actually have a storyline. I didn’t realize it, but it was the third longest running show in Las Vegas. I saw the Cirque du Soleil show KÀ yesterday at the MGM Grand Hotel. Amazing how blue the water and sky are, eh? I took these photos before we walked back to the truck. In fact, I think it’s safe to say that I was the youngest visitor around. I tied Penny up outside, went in, and got ice cream in two cups. Penny and I walked along the Riverwalk to the Aquarius hotel casino, which I don’t recall being there the last time I was there. Funny how things change.Īnyway, today I stopped at the Colorado Belle and asked the valet parking attendant where the closest ice cream was. When you come in and land, you can still get a shuttle across the river, but it’s in a shuttle van that drives across the bridge. The old runway has been turned into a commercial area there’s a Home Depot on part of it now. Nowadays, the airport runway is up the hill a bit, farther from the river. I suspect they might’ve been homeless or close to it and had somehow gotten up the money to come to the buffet. I remember seeing an elderly couple there stuffing food into the pockets of their jackets. The time we went there, we went for one of the cheap buffets for lunch. I’m pretty sure the boat shuttle was free. A boat would come across the river to fetch you and bring you to Laughlin. You’d land and park and then get out and walk to a dock right on the river. Back in those days, the airport across the river in Bullhead City, AZ was very close to the river. My wasband and I flew in together at least once, probably in my first helicopter.

Indeed, the parking lots were jampacked with motorhomes and trucks pulling fifth wheel trailers. Named for the man who developed the area, Don Laughlin, it attracts mostly seniors from the Sun City area near Phoenix, as well as snowbirds passing through. It’s a cluster of about 10 high-rise casino hotels right on the edge of the river. Laughlin is, in my opinion anyway, a poor man’s Las Vegas. But when I saw the turn for Laughlin,NV, on the Colorado River, I made a detour. The direct route took me down Route 95, a typical, mostly straight, desert highway. My goal was to find a campsite along the Colorado River near Needles, CA.

Bullhead city airport pics