Monday, April 20, 2026
We signed up for a bus trip to see the Hoover dam. Our host was Trez and he is a stand-up comedian. Though we just booked it through Viator, it was also presented by a comedy company. All tour guides should be comedians – it makes for a very funny time. I saw Elvis as we pulled into the parking area.
First stop was the Welcome to Las Vegas sign. Trez gave us advice on how to skip the line (and it is a long line) – just go up to the end of the sidewalk and take a picture from the side. Twenty seconds and we were walking back to the bus.
Second stop was at the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman bridge. They built the bridge because the only other was to get across the Colorado River was to go across the two-lane top of the dam. Traffic was horrendous. Now it runs smoothly with no stops. It is really high and really big and should have scared me to pieces, but I just walked right out onto it no problem. Usually when I am up high, I get shooting pain zooming up from my feet into my body. Today? None of it! Amazing.
At the dam, we watched a very interesting movie about building the bridge, then took an elevator down 500-and some feet to see the diversion tunnels they built to reroute the river while they built the dam, and then to see the power generators. It is quite an amazing feat of engineering. It was built in 4.5 years and could never be built now – there is so much safety going on now and there was NOT then. Officially, 96 men died building the dam; unofficially it is said to be over 300. The reason for the difference? In order to be counted officially, a person had to DIE on site. If they died in the hospital or on their way to the hospital, they were not counted.
We were wandering along in the Miracle Mile shopping area and one of those women handing out lotion samples got me. I don’t even really know how. I just went with her – like I was someone totally not me. Then they were putting lotion on me and doing stuff, and it was so fun and Keith kept saying my skin actually looked really better and I BOUGHT STUFF.
I’m worth it I’m worth it I’m worth it….
It was expensive and we will not speak of it again. But I will look much younger and just generally more fantastic.
We went to the MGM Grand to see the Cirque du Soleil KA show. The theater alone was incredible.
A lot of things happened in the show. I can’t even begin to explain it…but every bit of it was done by amazingly talented people. I have a few blurry pictures to prove it.
