Oh what a night!

Hi everyone

Sorry we missed a blog day but this will tell you why.

The Bee Gees didn’t happen.  We went with my cousins to go to our free breakfast only to find out it was all a bit of a con, not the bee gee tickets, but the whole thing was a time share sales pitch.  Well i told them forget it, i'm on holiday and didn't want to spend 3 hours listening to them.  So i asked for our money back and got it.  They were we felt quite sneaky at how they go about it and we told them so.

However,  with the Bee Gees off...we had an evening to fill and Marie Osmond fit the bill.  The day before i had heard that the were on show - i had done research before we left NZ and thought they were absent for july - not so - yay.  It’s meant to be the Donny and Marie show, but he was recovering from surgery, so it was a solo show, though one of the older Osmonds  Meril appeared.  But my goodness what a show.  Professional, awesome, wonderful, fabulous are just a few of the words to describe it.  Okay so we all remember the cheesy Donny and Marie show of years ago, but by goodness this woman has an awesome talent.  She sings right across the board from country to rock, and Broadway musicals and she even sang some opera from Madame Butterfly.  When she started the opera I thought at first it might be one of her jokes, she is a really funny lady, but no, it was her and live - none of the lip sync stuff - and my god she’s truly fabulous. 

I went to the show with my cousin Cindy and we had gone to the ticket office earlier in the am. To book our tickets.  We paid a bit extra and glad we did.  The show room was like an intimate setting and we were at a table right up front just about.  Couldn’t have been better.

After the show Neil and Chris met us and we headed to the water show at the Bellagio.  It goes to the sequence of music and over a 100 spouts of water fire up like a geyser to the music.  There are apparently 9 different sequences and they ‘fire’ up at night every 15 minutes or so.  Then we hoofed it down to the Mirage casino where they have fire spectacular of a ‘volcano’ going off.  All very theatrical.

This was about 9.30/10pm and the streets were packed.  There are people here from all over the globe and the surprising thing is there are heaps of families having holidays.  One doesn’t think of Vegas as a family holiday location, but apparently that is one of the reasons they built the casino buildings in such a theatrical and fantasy style, reminiscent I suppose of Disneyland, it certainly gives the city another dimension. Sorry the photos aren't the best.

And when I said above we hoofed it, man did we walk yesterday – miles and miles and it is soooo hot.  There are walkway bridges across the streets – you go up’/down very steep escalators to reach them.  It’s the only way to cross the main strip because of the busy vehicle traffic.

And my poor hoofs – oh so sore.  So need a foot massage.

And talking about escalators!  About 10pm we headed back towards our hotel – the Luxor (the Pyramid one)  We had a 24 hour ticket for the tram which goes the length of the strip and has about 7 stations.  We had to go from Harrahs to the MGM and then would walk from the MGM through the New York New York, The Excalibur and then to the Luxor.  Well we were just going down the escalator from the tram at the MGM when the hem of my maxi dress got caught in the tread of the escalator.  I could free it, screamed for help as we reached the bottom.  Everyone was yanking at it, screaming and I threw myself to the ground trying to get free, but my feet were caught up in the dress.  Neil and another guy slammed repeatedly at the stop button but it didn’t work until after about 5 hits (it’s meant to work 1^st time!) 

I went into shock and couldn’t move.  Security and hotel paramedics were called and eventually the ambulance.  What a fiasco.  They asked if I wanted to go to hospital, but refused but was a tad shaky getting up – this is about a half hour later!  Hotel big wigs were there recording the incident – probably worried I’d ‘sue their arse off’ LOL.  A cheese burger and do you want fries with that later I was sooo over ready for bed. 

This morning I’m achy after having a rough night.  But nothing broken, just a tad shocked.  It was rather scary as I couldn’t get free and my dress was being dragged more and more under the escalator.  The poor thing is ruined.