We decided that today would be a good day to go and explore the strip. Definitely a bit of a surprise to walk out of the hotel into a wall of heat, but nice that it was a dry heat rather than the humidity we've experienced here elsewhere.
We took our time heading down there and one of the first places we wandered into was the Venetian. I got to have my gondola ride!!
That place has some wow factor inside. The way it's been built to replicate Venice is beautiful (not that I can compare it to the real thing). The painted skies are so beautifully done it really looks like you're outside.
After watching a short musical performance in the square there we kept wandering through and found a ticket desk. I was really wanting to get tickets to see O but there was so little available and sooo expensive! Others had told me to see Le Reve instead and again, the man on the desk said he's seen both shows and believes Le Reve is better (he's seen it 7 times!). Tickets to Le Reve for Monday night it was and also some tickets to the Variety Show for that night.
Kept wandering down the strip and found a cool burger place to eat a late lunch at in the Miracle Mile shopping Mall. We wandered through there for a while and then realised the time, so a taxi trip back to the hotel, quick swim for the boys, showers and back into a taxi to get back to the Miracle Mile for dinner and our show.
The show was Amazing! Boys loved it - a little bit of everthing; juggling, strength acts, roller skaters, magic, music, comedy, the works. We had a ball!
After the show we went back out to the strip to see it lit up at night. Straight across to the Bellagio and caught the fountain show straight away.
Slowly strolled back to the hotel. All pretty tired after a late one.
Vegas has won us over I think.
(Will say I have never seen soooo many women dressed in sooooo little in the middle of the street! Think that may have helped Craig's enjoyment of the place. Funny moment of the day - sitting having lunch across from a bar called "Showgirl Bar" which has a massive statue of a scantily clad girl (looked like a Bratz doll) hanging onto a stripper pole, Craig and I laughing about it and Kaine tells us, very seriously "I'm never going to a place like that." After being reassured that when he's older he'll go to one "Nuh uh. Not even then!" Poor kid was so serious about it too! Haha. Definitely have to remind him of it in a few years I think.)