Should We Be Dancing?

 Hey, folks! 

This was our last day.  Bummer!  We're talking about where just the two of us might go next.  There are currently no plans. 😢 

But we finished our trip with a show! 

It took a lot of juggling and talking and we ended up with this -- 

Yes, it was a Bee Gees tribute band.  The tickets weren't terribly priced and the "auditorium" (it might have held 200) had good views of the stage.  And the three guys did a pretty good job (I won't quibble; it's gotta be hard to recreate that falsetto, etc).  It was fun.  Though I have serious second-hand embarrassment for the people who got up and danced to the disco music.  None of them were younger than the music, some by quite a bit.  😂😂 

They did all the older hits from their earlier albums, like "I Started a Joke" and "How Do You Mend a Broken Heart?", and worked into the disco stuff.  Good times. 

We then went to dinner (the show, appropriate for the audience, started at 6 PM) -- in DB's memory, an Irish pub on the walk back from the Excelsior to the Mandalay Bay.  I had the more interesting meal, the shepherd's pie, which was made mostly of lamb, and wasn't the best I've ever eaten. 

But let me go back. 

We started the day heading southeast toward Arizona -- K pointed out we'd gone a different direction each day!  

We had no plan for breakfast but I saw we were going near where we went Sunday and found a First Watch that we'd passed.  They have unuusal stuff, though they are a chain.  We thought of our friend RR, who we introduced to First Watch last year, even though there's one near his house :) 

I had the cinnamon chip pancakes. 

K had the ricotta omelette.   

Then off to one of the manmade wonders of world. 

We did the full tour -- going down to the fourth floor above the river bottom -- here's my photo with my arm out the slats 

It's a big place.  They have stats, like if you made a 4-foot wide sidewalk from all the concrete poured into it, it would go around the world at the equator!   (I'd like to see that math, but...)

Here's the stairs out from where we were "in case of emergency."  Our guide, Mel, said she asked what happened if you were in a wheelchair and they said they'd lower a harness from the top to that window and lift them out.  We all agreed, no thanks. 

They also built a village there -- at 5,000 it was twice the size then of Las Vegas (which was nothing then) -- along with all the other stuff.  

It's an amazing achievement.  I asked K going home how in 1930 you could figure out what it would take to do it.  Took a lot of brains and some awfully good knowledge of things like engineering.  

And that was our big day.  

We really enjoyed Vegas.  We did find that the dryness sneaks up on you; as our guide said today, you don't realize you're sweating and need to drink more.  We've struggled to stay hydrated. 

And that's all I've got.  Watching election results and I guess this is going to be an historic night.  Woo woo.  

But tomorrow -- back to home and the routine. 

Hope you've enjoyed.  

Till next time...