Grand Canyon Experience
Trip Start
Feb 11, 2008
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Trip End
Mar 24, 2008
Where I stayed
Las Vegas,
Nevada,
United States
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Wow it's now a week since we left home.
Settled in to our room at Circus Circus pretty late so had a quiet day on Monday. We ventured out the front door of the hotel for 5 minutes then returned for lunch. Spent the entire day exploring the hotel complex which is simply massive. Took us a little bit to get our bearings in amongst the many shops, eating areas, entertainment venues and of course wall to wall gambling facilities.
Our highlight of the day was watching the free Circus acts and playing on numberous sideshow alley type games (not all free mind you). Kids enjoyed themselves and RJ particularly enjoyed the all you can eat buffet which is quite cheap and full of variety 24 hours a day almost.
Tuesday morning we were very fortunate to have a private performance in our hotel room by Las Vegas magician Gary Norsigian (friend of a friend)
Circus Circus - Adventure Dome
. He certainly had us captivated and tricked with coin, card and disappearing tricks. He made my ring disappear from his hand into the inside pocket of his jacket in a zipped up key holder on a key hook while 4 of us were watching his every move!!!Then Gary kindly drove us around outer Vegas to see some of the houses and suburbs before dropping us back to the hotel.
After lunch we were taken to an airfield out of Vegas to catch our helicopter flight down into the Grand Canyon. Spectacular experience and RJ & JJ got to fly in the front seats!! Flew over the Hoover Dam, Lake Mead then across massive lava fields before cruising down into the canyon itself for a pin point landing just a few hundred metres up from the Colorado River on the canyon floor. Here we spent 1/2 an hour just looking up in awe and enjoying a light snack with our group. Lot's of photos were taken before boarding and flying back in the twilight to land in the dark. Fantastic experience well worth the cost & time.
On returning to Vegas we stopped off Downtown to see the most amazing laser light show projected onto the curved roof which covered over 2 city blocks down the mall.
Finished off with a contortionist (definitely made of rubber) and went back to the hotel for dinner.
With our Vegas Magician Gary
Our fabulous day finished in sadness with the news that RJ's cat Tabitha had died (probably snakebite). All of us will miss her as she was a real character who has been part of our lives for 6 yrs now. Wednesday - Kids day - all day passes for TC and kids in the Adventure Dome going on all the rides and doing lots of fun stuff. Unfortunately a couple of the rides weren't running so will have to miss them. Then some more had to close down as it was raining outside and the roof leaks so bit of a disappointment there too. Still JJ is proving to be a real roller coaster master and RJ is more like me (can't handle it). He preferred hanging upside down on the Inverter ride!
Anyway the next 2 days will be spent exploring the rest of the Strip as we haven't got out there yet! Tournament of Kings dinner tomorrow night & Bette Midler Friday night plus lots of free activities to explore.
Cheers for now, KC
Comments
Look's like lots of fun!
Great to see you enjoying it all, no need to tell you to take lots of photos. Hope all continues to go well. Watch out for polar bears in Canada.
From T J K & D