Trip #6: Sin City....ok NOW I get it.

February 18th, 2007

Wow this city really feeds the indulgences...

Today was strictly 4 shopping! I think the best part of the afternoon was going to the IHOP! And no, I'm not mentioning this b/c of the food....maybe it's just the ones in Vegas but wow. did it ever seem TRASHY...and yet there were all these beamers parked in front...what a crazy mix. ha.

We said goodbye to Anita, Tara, and their friends, so the next couple of days it's just me and jess. We check in to the Sahara (on the north end of the strip) and try to find a ticket venue to catch a show in the evening...we tried walking to one just a street off the strip, and it was soooo scary!!! We walked thru a busy street and got honked at, hollered at, and one SUV stopped right beside Jess and told her he liked white girls..Then we literally RAN back to the hotel. haha it was the middle of the friggin day! Another thing we noticed on the walk there is that porn is freely available in newspaper dispensers on every block...no real journalism, or anything remotely close...just porn It's gross...but I'm definitely beginning to understand the whole Sin City thing...

Speaking of which, we found tickets to Cirque de Soleil!!...uh..Zumanity - the R rated one that will definitely NOT be aired on CBC anytime soon. Let's just say that the host was a transvestite....a very funny one! The acrobat acts were amazing! And with this show they tried to embarrass people in the audience a lot. So it was interactive...which probably sounds really bad since I just told you it an R rated show.

From there we wandered around the casinos, all of which are themed, inside New York New York are streets lined with fake apartment buildings, the Paris is an Eiffel Tower on the outside and has a painted blue sky indoors, with street lamps and cafes! The Bellagio has tigers in the front lobby! Everything's soooo extravegant! The lights, the shows, the money! (None of which I saw....and I became TOTALLY addicted to playing the Big 6....my bad) I think I got Jess addicted too...& got coaching from
a couple experts at the table :)


Check out the pic below...if you click on it you can zoom in and read the hotel sign. Who would have thought they could fit all THAT on ONE sign?!?! I had to take a pic....note to self...never stay at the Frontier...EVER.