Oh the Zumanity! Las Vegas, NV

Las Vegas, NV

It’s our first full day in crazytown – so we start it the way many people advised: Buffet breakfast at the Bellagio. The Bellagio, like pretty much everything here in Vegas, is almost overwhelmingly huge. We did eventually find the buffet though, which was of course delicious, but my expectations may have been set a bit high because, despite being big, it wasn’t huge ginormous and overwhelming. Can’t complain though, still had a great feed. And it had soft-serve sorbet machines. What? Yep, apparently that’s a thing now.

After gorging ourselves at the posh pig trough we jumped in a taxi and headed to a big outlet shopping centre. I wish the watch shop we went to didn’t have “buy one get one half price”, we all know how that story ends… After that we went back to the Bellagio and yay they’ve fixed the fountain – it was an impressive display, will be interesting to see it at nighttime. One unavoidable aspect of walking anywhere in Vegas are the countless people handing out business cards for strip (or more) joints. They’re at every single intersection , and about every 20 metres in between. (The people. Not the strip joints!). You have to give these people some credit though – today’s best response to my “no thank you” was this: “They’re just titties bro they ain’t gonna bite ya!” 🙂 In the early evening we had of a bit of a walk around, through the MGM Grand (huge), the rest of New York New York (huge), and the Bellagio (huge). Yes there’s a common theme running through the Vegas casinos. Each one is the size of a suburb – it makes Star City look like a quaint little village.

Tonight’s show (we might not be near broadway but that won’t stop us) was Cirque du Soleil’s “Zumanity”. It’s the Vegas, grown-up version of cirque – so yes, lots of boobs-out-for-the-lads. But despite that it still managed to be mostly artful and in good (enough) taste. And the performers are incredibly talented, regardless of their state of dress. Zumanity was at the theatre within our hotel, so it was a very short walk to dinner (in one of the 8 or so restaurants here). Then we spotted a Wizard of Oz pokie machine so we had to give that a whirl – and for once actually managed to turn $15 into $50 so I guess Glinda the Good Witch really was on our side after all.

By this time it was nearly 1am so definitely time to just crash. (Hence no update last night). I will surprise you all now by mentioning that tomorrow is time for another show…