trip to laughlin

We just got back from a fun trip to Laughlin, Nevada. It is in what is called the tristate area. If you look at a map it it the area where the end of Nevada meets the edge of Arizona and California. The town is on the Colorado River so there is lots of fun things to do. There are several nice Hotels there with very reasonable rates. We stayed in the 11th floor of the Tropicana Express, a 24 story hotel. The rooms for a week day are $29.00. The hotel has 5 restaurants, a large swimming pool, several nice hot tubs. We signed up for the gaming club even though we don't gamble. The club membership provided a free tee shirt deep discounts on food and $ 5.00 each to gamble, which we pocketed. The food was wonderful. The Theme for the Hotel was trains. There was a old steam train that went around the hotel.

There is a walk along the bank of the river behind all of the hotels with shops ect. Malrene and I took a ride on a River Boat to see the River and Davis Dam which is just up stream from Laughlin.

Sunday, after our own sunday shool. We could not find the LDS Ward. Marlene called the number for the Ward that we got off the Internet but it was a home. We drove to lake Havasu City, about 40 Miles, to see the London Bridge. It was taken down piece be piece shipped to Arizona and reconstructed. There is a lot of English themed business around it. In the park by the Bridge there was a Dog show going on with the dogs racing through a obisital course.

Monday we drove to a small town in the area called Oatman Arizona. It is about 15 miles from Laughlin. It is on old historic highway 66 it is an old mining town with now more mining. some of the old buildings were used in the Movie "How the West Was Won". Clark Gable and Carol Lumbard spent their Honey moon here after their secrete wedding. There is a Gun fight staged in the town on the main street about every 20 minutes. The Wild Burros from the area come in to town looking for carrots which most of the stores sell. Attached is a couple of pictures of Mom trying to feed them. She doesn't know whether to feed them or run.

We had a great time for a couple of days. I guess the best was sitting in the hot tubs eating the huge free yogurt cones each day. all in all a great trip.