Happy 50th Birthday to my gorgeous hubby.
We get up early and go for a run towards Old Las Vegas. It's quite cool and running helps warm us up. We see quite a few people out running. We ran 6km and did 20 squats waiting for the crossing to change ha ha. Again we see LOTS of homeless people. It's terribly sad.
After breakfast (oats huzzah!!) we go to the bus stop near the hotel and buy a ticket $8ea for 24hrs (the buses run 24/7) we can jump on and off as often as we like. We travel up ther strip to Mandalay Bay and check out the Shark Reef/Aquarium it's really cool and even has pirahnas!! You can touch the sting rays (they are so soft) and it has a tunnel you walk through and the sharks and saw fish swim over you.
We walk down the strip a bit more check out the Luxor and New York, New York. NY, NY is the cleanest smelling casino in the whole of the strip!! People are still allowed to smoke indoors ewwwwww!!
Then we catch the bus back down to The Venetian to meet up for our presentation at 12:40pm. We have to fill out some paperwork and David asks the lady "do we get lunch first?" ha ha he was hungry. She says "why yes sir!" anyway we are loaded onto a bus and it starts...........we pick up some other couples at other hotels and then we are driven out of town to a resort complex where we are asked to take a seat. Each couple is assigned somebody and suddenly a young man calls our names, his name is Walter and he is delightful we warm to him straight away. Walter then drives us to another resort to have lunch sooo by the time we get to lunch it's 2pm. Lunch is delicious and Walter is lovely company. He does talk to us a little about the timeshare deal that he is selling and then after lunch takes us back to the first resort and gives us some history, background and a basic idea of the deal, he then shows us around and then takes us back to finalise the deal. We just don't have the disposable cash to make that kind of deal and explain to Walter that we will not be buying timeshare today. He has to call over his boss to make sure he has done his job. The boss offers us a reduced deal but we explain to ther boss that even at the reduced rate we cannot commit to the deal. We are then shown to a room where another person Jerry asks us some questions to make sure that Walter treated us with respect and to finalise our gifts. We are then shown to yet another room to process our gifts. We are given vouchers to convert to Human Nature tickets, vouchers for dinner at Tintoretto Restaurant and $30 change. We are then shown to a bus where other couples are waiting to go back to their hotels we are the last to be dropped off and arrive at our hotel at 6pm 5 1/2 hours after we started.
We quickly change into clothes for the show and dinner. We walk up to The Venetian and I am scared that there will be no tickets left over for show tonight and that we would miss out but at the box office our vouchers are converted to actual tickets so we buy drinks and go in and sit down.
Human Nature are AMAZING!!!! and after the show we line up to meet them. I get to shake their hands and tell them how much I enjoyed the show. While waiting in the line we meet a couple from Georgetown!!! (which is in Newcastle) they are almost at the end of their holiday and have been everywhere NY/LA and LV.
We went to redeem our dinner vouchers the food was delicious. so today we spent $6 for my glass of wine for dinner plus the tip a very cheap day and we got to meet Walter a quality young man :))
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| apples NY NY |
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| lunch at Silverton with Walter |
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