Vegas Blog part 2

• What's up, homies? It's me, I'm back again. Here at work in San Fran playing lovely classical stuff. Okay now where were we? Oh it was on Monday and we went to see Tournament Of The Kings at Excalibur. It came with dinner that we ate with our hands, just like at Medeival Times in Southern California. The best part about the show were the sexy young jousters. We sat in the Ireland section, and Mr. Ireland there was pretty HOT. I should have taken a picture. Haha. We seriously saved a lot of money by going to Tix 4 Tonight. There's 3 or 4 locations there in Vegas, and it's well worth waiting in line. Anyway after watching the sexy jousting, we took the Monorail over to the Sahara and walked to the Stratosphere. We had a little over an hour before our show so we went up on the Stratosphere tower. Boy what a view, man. We got our picture taken, and it looks hilarious. Once I get the computer back and scan it in, you'll laugh your socks off. After our lovely tour we went to see Bite!. Now what was amusing was we didn't realize it was a topless show. ROTF. So yeah, we had our share of both women's and men's depravity.. hahaha. It was very entertaining though, I wouldn't reccomend it for prude people. Lots of singing, provocative acrobatics, dancing. Least there was a cool rock soundtrack to it. Note: Davina picked it since she thought it would be some random show about vampires, she loves them. She had no idea it was a semi-naked show. I'm still laughing. Haha. By the time that show was over, we were exhausted. I had been up since Sunday morning, and Davina didn't sleep much on Sunday night since she was so excited. The second we got in the hotel room, we both crashed and were asleep in minutes.
• Okay now for Day 2. Can you believe all that happened in Day 1? Crazy. So we woke up, got ready, and headed on out for another long day of adventuring. First thing we did was hit up Tix 4 Tonight again, so we could get good prices on shows. Our picks for the day were The Fab Four (awesome Beatles cover band) at Planet Hollywood and The Chippendales at The Rio. After scooping up our tix, we checked out the M&Ms store nearby, where I snagged some candy (I'm bad) and a few souveneirs. Then we took the Monorail to the Paris Hotel, and checked that out before heading to Planet Hollywood. Another note: If you've never been to Vegas you may not realize it takes at least 30 minutes to successfully get through a hotel from one end to the other. Not only because each hotel is the size of a giant shopping mall, but also because there are a lot of slow moving old folks near the slot machines. Always plan ahead if you have a show to get to. LOL. So we took plenty of pics in the Paris Hotel because the inside of it looks like the cobblestone streets of Paris. We also went up on the Eiffel Tower on top of the hotel and took pictures. Great view. Then we finally made our way to Planet Hollywood. We had gotten discount coupons for this great restaurant called Pampas Churrascaria. It's kinda like an upscale buffet. They bring all kinds of meat to your table for you to try, and they have an all you can eat salad bar. The food selection there is really unique, I've never eating much South American cuisine but it was all tasty. Lots of fruit. After our satisfying lunch, we walked around the whole Miracle Mile mall and then went to the box office to get our Fab Four tix. We paid $15 more and upgraded to VIP and get tickets a lot closer to the stage. The show was great and worth the money. We would have stayed and taken pics with them but we had to get a taxi to The Rio so we could get our Chippendales tix in time. Taxis do cost a lot and I don't reccomend them in Vegas unless you really need to be somewhere in a hurry. So we arrived at the Rio and got our tix, and had a pretzel at Auntie Anne's to tide us over until after the show. By the way the whole time we were in this hotel I kept singing that Duran Duran song... "Her name is Rio and she dances 'cross the sand.. ". So yeah the Chippendales were HOT! Their show made my life complete. I can die a happy woman. I liked it when they only had a towel on their you know whats and were humping the stage. WHEW. Calm down, Lisa. After the show we took pics with them. Man that was exciting. WHOO BABY. Believe me once you see them, you'll understand. After that life changing event, we took a shuttle back to Caesar's Palace to check that out. Afterward we checked out The Mirage and The Flamingo. The Mirage has a great show with fountains synchcronizing sprays of water with music. We were stuck watching the Titanic song which I hate with a passion but it was awesome anyway. There is also a beautiful atrium garden thing inside the hotel. My mom would have loved it. All kinds of rare plants and stuff. The Flamingo was cool since they have a real flamingo sanctuary. It smelled kinda funky, so we took pics and left right away. We also walked through Bally to see if they had anything fun. It was just your run of the mill hotel and casino. We took the Monorail from there back to the MGM, stopped at McDonalds for some late dining, and went to bed. As you can imagine we were tired after all that walking and excitement.
• Okay Day 3, last day of the trip. We packed up all our stuff and checked it in for the hotel to hold onto it until we were ready to catch our shuttle back to the airport that evening. We had breakfast at the Rainforest Cafe there at the MGM. I had a yummy breakfast pizza. That place is awesome. There's one in San Francisco near Fisherman's Wharf but I've never been there. Next time I go there I'll check it out. Then we caught The Deuce (double decker city bus that goes downtown) to Fremont Street. Our bus driver looked just like Eazy-E, and I took a pic with him when we were getting off. He thought we were hilarious. Fremont Street is cool, but is probably more magical at night during the light display. We went in the early afternoon and took pics of the old hotels like Glitter Gulch. I also had Dunkin Donuts for the first time. An iced coffee and a blueberry muffin. I just heard there's a Dunkin in Pinole or some obscure place here in the Bay Area. I was not aware of that. Oh well. It was pretty good, we need to get one nearby. There are too many Starbucks everywhere. Oh yeah, we made this video where they put our heads on some dancing cartoon bodies and we lip synch to music. Davina's going to make a copy for me. It's great. So we headed on back to the Strip, and checked out The Venetian. We were going to go on a gondola ride, but they were only doing the outdoor ones and it was WAY too hot. We walked around the shopping area which catered to the very rich tourists. Stores like Tiffany & Co, Giorgio Armani, stuff like that. Then we checked out the wax museum, it's awesome. It's interactive so you can actually hug the statues, lay on the bed with Hugh Heffner, get interviewed by Oprah, stuff like that. Davina and I took some great pics. After the wax museum we headed on back to the hotel and got our bags, and waited for our shuttle. Then waited longer, and longer. We had a voucher for a particular bus but after waiting 30 minutes we paid another $6 to ride another shuttle to the airport. So like I mentioned in part 1, a voucher isn't worth it, shuttles are never on time. We made it to the airport over an hour before our scheduled flight so we were okay. I had a whopper jr with cheese meal with apple slices and water for dinner there before we got on the plane. The flight only took like an hour. Before we knew it, we were back in Oakland again.
• A few observations during the trip that I didn't discuss. There are perverts everywhere, man. First of all, what's up with the ancient old fogies and the 18 year old girls? Either the men are rich or the girls are prostitutes, or maybe both. So sad. Also, we were eating lunch at this food court thing next to the M&Ms store on Day 1, and this old guy sits next to Davina reading his paper. Then she leaves to get an iced tea and he sits there humming to himself and playing pocket pool (you know, grabbing his crotch). I got the heck outta there, man. What a freak. Oh and all along the strip these Mexican dudes hand out hundreds of cards to guys for call girls. There are prostitute ads everywhere. Las Vegas sure is the sex capital of the U.S., man. I mean Davina and I saw some freaky shows and male strippers, but we just look, we don't touch. Freakazoids, geez.