Quick recap

The Hoover Dam was very impressive.  We took lots of pictures and learned a lot about it.  The only disappointment was since 9/11, the tour inside the dam has been stripped down to basically nothing.  They send you down 500 feet to look at some of the generators and then ship you right back up, tour over.

The Blue Man group show was a bit of a disappointment.  Don’t get me wrong, it was good but wasn’t blow you away great for me.  Ali felt the same way. We had fantastic seats, dead center, 6 or 7 rows back, just outside of the “splash” zone.  We have a camera phone shot of me posing with one of the blue men after the show that I’ll post sometime.

We walked around the Miracle Mile shops and the shops at the Venetian yesterday.  I am pretty much shopped out.  Remember that rampant consumerism that I had complained about awhile back about?  Well Vegas is all about it.  Shopping, shopping, shopping, everywhere you turn.  It’s funny how many of these indoor casino malls look very similar.  Each one we have been in had blue skys and clouds painted on the ceilings. A lot of the stores are for the ultra-rich.  I laughed out loud at the pair of $300 jeans sitting on a table in one of these places.  The funny thing was that most of the these hoity toity, trendy, designer named places had no customers in them.  Almost every single one was barren.  I don’t know how they pay the bills.

I don’t feel like going into detail today.  Typing on the Sony laptop for any period of time gets to be just plain annoying.  Today will be laid back, unlike yesterday where we didn’t gamble a single dollar, today will probably be our last chance for substantial gambling since the Grand Canyon is planned for tomorrow and we ship out Friday.  The only planned event for today is dinner at Capo’s tonight.