18 June – Vegas

We have booked into Sam’s Town until 21 June.  The rate is quite cheap at the moment (a summer special) only $22.40 per night for full hook up , so we took advantage of that.  So the next few posts will be from Vegas… hope you stick with us J.  Steve very happy…. No driving for the next couple of days J.

1^st thing about Vegas.  It’s hot!  Damn Hot!  About 41 deg.  We are Tasmanians & likely to melt!

Sam’s Town  is a casino off the main Vegas Strip, but they run a bus service into the strip for free and it only takes about 20 minutes.  We took one of the morning bus runs and go dropped off at the Harrahs Casino and began to walk around. Vegas still has that jaw-dropping effect on you, even when you have been there before.  They just cannot seem to spend enough money to make their casinos stand out.  

We got concert tickets to see the 80’s rock musical Rock of Ages and also Human Nature.  We thought about getting tickets to see Celine Dion (yep… she still has a residency there), but we thought that she would go on… and on…. and on…… LOL.  We also found that Donny& Marie Osmond are still performing there (seriously, I was surprised they were still alive).

We spent some time in the Venetian Canal Shopping area watching the street performers. It is “Carnavale” at the moment so they have costumed and masked opera performers. Even a court jester on huge silts.

We had lunch at a French restaurant in the Paris Casino then continued to walk around.  

We got down to the MGM Grand and got passes to review TV sitcom pilots produced by CBS.  CBS produced Big Bang & two & half Men.  We’ll do this in the next day or so. Planet Hollywood had a thunderstorm over a pool in the miracle mile shops – thunder, and rain pouring from the ceiling. Quite fun to watch. The Bellagio has a conservatory with finches and canaries in it.

Our tickets for Rock of Ages was for tonight so we had to wander back to the Venetian to have some dinner before the show.  We had some lovely sushi.

The Rock of Ages was fantastic.  They had some great rock songs from the 80’s and the performers did a great job.  We even had fake cigarette lighters to light up for the love ballads, really cool.

After the show, we caught a taxi back to the RV and fell into to bed.