Thursday 16 January 2015 Las Vegas

Late breakfast at McDonald’s again. The breakfast there has lots of protein, but it is also a bit high on fat and carbs. The fruit in Celeste's oatmeal is pretty minimal, so today we decided to balance our meal a little better with an apple and banana from the drug store down the street. Then we hopped the bus to Circus Circus. They have free circus acts there throughout the day beginning at noon. We watched a trapeze artist, then toured around and came back to watch a juggler. We tried to check out the AdventureDome (the kids amusement park), but it is closed Thursdays.

Next stop was at the Miracle Mile because we had a coupon (Sound familiar?) for a free beer with the purchase of a lobster roll at LobsterMe. I have had lobster rolls before – cold lobster with mayonnaise in a stale hot dog bun – and I have always been disappointed. I didn't know it was possible to make lobster plain. But this was chunks of lobster dipped in butter and served between two layers of delicious toasted bread. It came with really nice coleslaw and handmade potato chips. Delicious! The picture cannot do it justice. We topped it off with 2 for 1 pretzels. (There are pretzel shops everywhere here.)

On the way back to our place we stopped at Hershey’s Chocolate World for one of the brownies that have been taunting me all week. It was too big for the two of us in one sitting, so we took it back to our room and ate half.

After a short rest, managing some pictures, and blogging, we grabbed our jackets and headed out for the evening. First we explored Caesar’s Palace for a while. Nearby, Celeste ran into Mario and Luigi and her old pal Chewy. (Inside joke.) 

We arrived early at the Bellagio for our show and caught another version of their water ballet.

Then we made our way to the theatre for “O” and found ourselves seated beside another couple from Calgary.

We were here several years ago and I really wanted to see this show because it was so highly rated, but we didn't go. Maybe we couldn't get tickets or maybe we were just too cheap – probably the latter – but I am sure glad we saw it now. I had very high expectations and they were met and exceeded. It may have been the best show we have ever seen. There are spectacular acrobatics, gymnastics, diving, synchronized swimming and more all wrapped up in unsurpassed artistry and staging. I can’t even begin to grasp how someone could conceive all the artistic and technical details of such a huge production. Sometimes there was so much going on you did not know where to look. We bought the “cheap” seats in the balcony. We might have missed some details, but we had a super view of some other elements, such as what was going on under water.

We had some New York pizza by the slice to finish off the night.