Nothing Nefarious

So I guess I have a handful of stories to tell, but I'll just talk about one until later.

Las Vegas was interesting. I was supposed to visit SF b/c I had a plane ticket to use but family in LV decided they wanted us to visit. I haven't seen this particular cousin in over 5 years so I was like okay. We get there and they're like, "Something's happened. We changed our mind." Great, except we had planned nothing because we expected to be hanging out with the family the entire time. So what do you do? You hit the strip and explore.

Hm... I was very disturbed by the Mexican guy on the street who seemed to be trying to solicit his family member as a ...yeah... The hotels were okay. Not nearly as cool as I'd thought they'd be - having watched all of the Travel Channel's coverage of the city. The shows are AMAZING THERE. And cost an arm and a leg. The discount tickets are the ones that normally cost $400 that are going for half off- which to me defeats the purpose of a discounted ticket. I was the most impressed by Bellagio's art exhibit and the Wynn's interior design. Caesar's Palace was okay and Mandalay Bay was an absolute dump. So was Excalibur and Luxor --- that pyramid--- it literally makes you feel like you're in a tomb when you go into it.

Food is on a whole other level in LV. The buffets are good - probably the best as far as buffets go and the prices are reasonable. The restaurants where you sit and order are good, but not nearly as good as SF's best, or Portland for that matter.

I was surprised at how many people wanted to see Chip n'Dales and the other topless revues. Some of the topless women in the ads pasted around town were just downright saggy. And as far as the male stripping went, plenty of males were waiting outside in line for the Australian Revue Thunder Down Under or something like that. The Spice Girls were in town and so was Celine Dion. Too bad it's her last year. I say instead of paying for $90 in the nosebleed section, just buy the Costco DVD of Celine Dion Live in Las Vegas for $12.99

I was so looking forward to the Sirens of TI but the place was shut down for construction. The old hotel off the strip owned by that billionaire whose name I can't remember is being rebuilt with about 6 cranes at the moment. To give you an idea, renting one of those cranes is $2,000 per day and they've been in construction for over a month.

Slot machines. I can't believe how many slot machines are everywhere. Although yeah, the smaller hotels off the strip offer machines that actually let you win... so I guess that's cool.

I'll put up pictures later. I haven't downloaded off the camera yet. Oh yeah so I ended up seeing Ka by Cirque du Soleil and the set design was cool.