Sunday, October 28, 2007

Rocket Man

Feeling kind of small here for darn near 20 miles!

Entering the Virgin River Canyon - hang on!


The "Rocket Man" put on a great show entitled "The Red Piano". You might note that this piano is black and.............you might remember cameras were confiscated (to be returned later). Internet pic!!




The drive from St. George, Utah to Las Vegas started out through Virgin Canyon, following the course of the Virgin River down a gorge just wide enough for the river and a 4 lane highway, with sheer, straight walls up to 2,000 feet high. Talk about feeling small!! The road twisted and turned down about 1,000 feet before spilling out onto a broad flat plain. As Brenda pointed out, the rest of the trip was like traveling through a huge gravel pit surrounded by mountains. Not the most scenic desert we have traversed! But the canyon was exciting!!

When we realized that we would have to pass through Las Vegas on the trek south, we discovered that Elton John would be in town at the same time. Do you think he knew we were coming? Since we did not buy our tickets to see him within the first ½ hour of them going on sale, our seats were somewhat back from the front row (to say the least). However, he is playing the Coliseum (Celine Dion’s theatre) at Caesar’s Palace while she is on vacation (there IS a God!!). It is a wonderful facility (without Celine!!) with nary a bad seat in the house. You might be thinking that I don’t like Celine …….. you would be right! Brenda wouldn’t mind seeing her …….alone!

The Elton John show was pure entertainment. He’s still got it. When we saw the Mormon Tabernacle Choir people were jumping up and taking pictures all over the place. At the Elton John concert cameras were all confiscated. At Elton’s show two loud fans near us were ejected from the theatre for using exactly the same language that was coming from the stage. Ironic!

I think the “Strip” in Vegas has gotten busier since we were here, just last March. The street was so gridlocked that when we went to pick up our concert tickets, we couldn’t get back to the MGM for our dinner reservation so we had to make a change. (Bradley Ogden instead of Wolfgang Puck – not a hardship). One new 4,000+ room hotel nearing completion on the strip was a hole-in-the-ground in March.

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