Vegas does Star Trek
While Tracie & Bren headed off for their 54th Cirque De Soleil show that week, Sally and I rode the monorail down to the MGM grand and walked up the strip. We stopped at an oxygen bar in New York, New York - I’d heard about these years ago and as I’m very dubious/curious we gave it a go. Absolute crap really, but a fun diversion for 20 minutes - seeing each other with plastic tubes wrapped around our faces was a scary glimpse into old age! At least we got all kinds of head & back massages while we were sat there breathing.
There’s an amazing amount of construction going on in Vegas right now, both on and off strip. Everywhere we looked there were cranes hoisting up new casinos and condos. We eventually ran into the Paris and found La Creperie and enjoyed (for me) the best food of the entire trip - trust the French to deliver good food, even when they seemed to be polish with fake accents - haw he haw, oui oui! We also noticed a bizarre sign which said that David Hasselhoff was now in the cast of The Producers - WTF? “Springtime \ For Hasselhoff \ In Germany” :-)
We were exhausted and heading back to the hotel for an hours relaxation before meeting up with Tracie & Bren for dinner, when I suddenly decided I was going to empty my wallet of $1 bills by starting a collection of casino chips. Deciding this on the last night was obviously a big barrier to the size of my chip collection, but Sally got unexpectedly behind the whole endeavor and planned a masterful zig-zagging route back to our hotel. By the end of the night I had 10 chips, which is not a bad start.
We hooked up with Tracie & Bren again, had some hawaiian food and ended up at the Wynn hotel which is one of the most luxurious hotels in town right now. The light show in the garden is amazing - I could have taken endless pictures of it but my camera batteries died, an omen of the end of our way too short a trip...
