Laughlin

As promised, this blog is about a weekend in Laughlin topped off by a "Cannonball Run" return to reality here on Cable Lake. This is a picture of the beautiful Colorado River, which separates Bullhead City, Arizona from Laughlin, Nevada. Renee and I arrived about 1700hrs on Friday. The plane lands in Bullhead, there is a "tarmac" arrival and you can see across the river to the casinos..........

....the small parking lot has about 30 cars in it, how tough can it be to find an old white Buick that Rex and Mary left there for us earlier in the day?...........

 
.....Well, that was not the right car. It was an Oldsmobile if the same age. Weird, out of 30 cars. We found the right one, shaking our heads, and headed across the river to find the Aquarius and our $49.95 room........

 

There are about 10 casinos like this in Laughlin, once inside they all look like Las Vegas to me. The prices are reasonable, however. Most are connected by a "riverwalk" along the river which is nice when the weather is good, which is most of the time........

.........This is the view out our window, across the river and of the Bullhead airport...........

 
....we visited the Avi, the casino where Rex and Mary work. It is out of town a few miles and owned by a well-organized and successful Native American tribe. It is beautiful........

....We found Rex and Mary working the blackjack tables back to back. My blackberry camera does not like low light situations and I didn't hang around to take a better shot as photography in the pit is frowned upon.

We ate an a nice Italian restaurant called the Aviano for about $20--a four course dinner served at our table with drinks! I thought I was in Spooner for a while (but the waitstaff had all their teeth).........

.........unhappily, we bid farewell to scenic Laughlin and the fun we had. The ugly part of the trip lay before us.......

Uncle Hans