Hubby and his working partner attorney were in seminars for two straight days so Mom, Dad, the attorney’s wife (and friend of mine), and I shopped till we dropped and had lunch one day at Planet Hollywood and the next day at the Bellagio.
Everything in Vegas is in excess. We walked too much, ate too much and spent too much money. I feel good, though, that we didn’t gamble or drink too much! So I guess we did good and it was worth it.
As we walked the Strip during the day, dressed up characters are standing around available to get pictures with – for a tip! Woody from Toy Story was almost kind of perverted and gave my girlfriend and me the creeps.
Elvis was OK.
We stayed at the Monte Carlo hotel on the Strip. It’s very nice and since we were there for hubby’s seminar we got a pretty good discount on the room. We’ve started to rate the hotels in order of beauty and luxury since we’ve stayed at a good many of them now through the years. Our number one pick so far is Caesar's,
then Mandalay Bay, Monte Carlo, Bally’s and Stratosphere. Didn’t care for the Stratosphere at all! I would love to some day to stay at Paris,
Bellagio and Wynn. That will probably only happen if we get good seminar rates.
Our highlight was Sunday evening (Halloween)at Cher’s last show. Wow! Her voice was as good as ever, and even though she’s not skinny like she used to be, she looks great at 60 something. And she had a change of costume for every song. 
In between songs, to give time for the costume and scenery change, they played old clips on a huge screen of the old Sonny and Cher show, clips from her movie roles, etc. The show was quite spectacular and we were on the First Mezzanine but direct center so the seats were good. We just used binoculars to get some close up views. Because of the binoculars we could tell that she had on a full flesh colored body stocking under all those skimpy tight outfits. See, even the most beautiful stars with all their cosmetic surgery still have to resort to tricks and secrets to get that fake perfect look! Makes you kind of feel a little better in a way.
Hubby had bought me a new outfit before we left home to wear to Cher. It was very cute, and comfortable, velvet black leggings and a red and black ruffled velvet tunic.
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But the shoes were a different story. They were black mesh with very, and I mean very, high heels with red roses clipped to the side. I called them my cute hooker shoes.
Believe me, they were not made to walk in! Even though we took a tram to the show from Monte Carlo to Caesar's, you still ended up walking quite a lot. I had the worst blisters on my heels by the time we got to the show that I carried the shoes and walked barefoot after the show. It was funny, though, that as I carried these cute shoes in my hand I had a lady come up to me to tell me how much she liked my shoes!
We had dinner before the show that first night at a Chinese restaurant inside Monte Carlo. Very good food and an excellent black raspberry sake. I’m going to be craving one of those about 10:00 tonight I think! The second night we ate at Di’Ablo’s, the Mexican restaurant inside the hotel. The show we saw that night was the ignorant group of girls at the table beside us screaming and hollering for the San Francisco Giants throughout the whole dinner as the World Series final game was playing. The manager finally came over to them and asked them to leave, just as we were finishing. We should have complained a lot sooner. I know it’s Vegas and people get wild, but come on!!
Our final night there our friends really wanted to see “Phantom”. The rest of us weren’t that interested and didn’t want to spend that kind of money on another show. We ended up getting a cab and going downtown Las Vegas to Freemont Street and it was actually very nice and a lot of fun. There is a light show that plays above Fremont Street like every hour.
(You can see the old hotels and then that lit up dome above them is a dome roof above the street where the light show plays.)
Then we got tickets to a show inside the Golden Nugget. A comedian by the name of Gordon Brown. He sings and does impressions. It was a great show. We were pleasantly surprised by the show, Fremont Street and the Golden Nugget. Now we’re approaching re-entry into reality. I’m O.K. with that because I don’t think I could go another day at that pace. Tomorrow I would love to rest for a day, but that’s not on the schedule. I’ll have to pick up my dogs in the morning from the dog sitter and then go pick up my three grandchildren for the weekend. Their mother has to go to Virginia for a few days and their dad, my son, has to work Thursday and Friday. I may have to stay down there unless they take the boys out of pre-school and kindergarten for one day.
After Sunday things will settle down just a little bit and my thoughts will then turn to the Holidays.
