Monday, April 8, 2013

Good morning crew,

After a stressful, but successful first afternoon in the casino we were all ready for a little entertainment. Now the last time I was in Las Vegas, about five years ago, I saw a show by Cirque du Soleil and was much impressed. It was the most amazing acrobatics I had ever seen. So when I heard that Cirque du Soleil had a new show called KA at the MGM Grand I talked everyone into investing in tickets.

The theater was impressive, gorgeously decorated, and the whole stage was rigged on gimbals which is allowed it to be raised and lowered and rotated on two axes. I could only imagine the acrobatic miracles they were going to be performing on this thing.

Well, the show started out a little slow. They were trying to narrate a storyline with dance, like ballet, but they were employing a lot of artsy-fartsy performance stuff. Not that I am necessarily opposed to artsy-fartsy performance stuff, but I was expecting death-defying acrobatics and what we got was dancing and baton-twirling.

Somewhere around the shadow puppets I dozed off. I didn't wake up until the very end when they added some pyrotechnics, I believe in order to wake the audience up and let them know the show was over.

Considering the cost of the tickets it was probably the most expensive nap I have ever taken, but it did not improve my mood.

I have to admit the whole first day was really leaving a bad impression on me. After the fiasco at lunch, losing nearly half of my bank roll at the roulette table and barely winning it back with a desperation play, and then getting lulled to sleep by shadow puppets that I paid a scandalous amount to see, I went into dinner back at the Paris with no little trepidation.

Fortunately, the Mon Ami Gabi restaurant restored my mood with just an exceptional meal. The wait staff was solicitous and courteous, the wine was good and not too terribly expensive, and I had a lamb shank which I think has set a new standard for lamb in my experience.

By the time we rolled out of Mon Ami Gabi we had all had an 18 hour day. So despite the incessant "ding-ding-ding-ding" from the casino floor we wrapped the day up, exhausted but satisfied.

Day one.

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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