Last day in Vegas

Hard to believe a week has gone by.  It has been a busy week, we did not have a lot of down time and are really happy we saw so much of the area.  We have been to Vegas twice before around 30 years ago and never set foot outside of the city, so we were long overdue to see some of the beautiful desert that is so close by. 

Andre and I are leaving on the redeye tonight at midnight, then arrive home around 1:30 PM tomorrow afternoon.  The others are all leaving on a noon flight today scheduled to get home at midnight tonight.

After seeing all our Vegas friends off on the airport shuttle we head over to Harrahs to cash in our cheap ticket voucher for real tickets to Menopause the Musical which we will see at 2:00 this afternoon.  Again what we thought would be a quick walk took us about 1 hour back and forth.  Back at the hotel to check out and we decided to move the car to Harrahs as we would be spending most of the day around that area.  Parking on the strip is all free, guess they want you in their casinos.  

We spent some time in Harrahs casino.  If you sign up for their free loyalty card they give you $20 after you lose your first $20.  So, we took turns playing slots with $40 that cost us $20.  We tried using Lucilles method of betting $5 at a time then moving on, but we didn’t have the same luck.  While here we also received a text from everyone at the airport that their flight was delayed and they weren’t sure when they were leaving, but they would not make their connection in Toronto so they would not be getting home until the next day, OK, maybe our redeye flight wasn’t such a bad option. 

We went to the show at 2PM, this is a pretty tiny theatre and we had bought cheap seats so were seated way at the back.  Hardly anyone was there so the usher came and asked us if we wanted to move closer.  Sure, but closer was really close, we were basically on the stage.  Luckily no one sat behind us so we were able to move back one row when the show started.  Lots of laughs, but there were so few there that it was kind of sad, I am not even sure if there were 50 people in the audience.  We were told that it is the longest running scripted show in Vegas, 10 years now, maybe it has run its course, or maybe it is just that a 2PM show on Saturday is not a big draw. 

 

At the Menopause musical, probably a tad too close to the stage

 

We have now heard back from everyone at the airport, they are all getting to Toronto tonight, some are going through Montreal and on to Moncton tomorrow, and others are leaving after us tomorrow on a direct flight from Toronto to Moncton.  We will all get home eventually!

We walked around looking for somewhere to eat supper after the show.  We had seen a couple of places we wanted to try, but after standing in line at one place for a bit we decided to walk down to Planet Hollywood and go to Gordon Ramsay Burgr place.  So glad we moved the car from right behind here earlier today ha ha.  There was quite a long line up, but we decided to wait as we had lots of time to kill before we needed to leave for the airport.  We had a good dinner, burgers were yummy and always fun to watch such a busy restaurant at work.  

Suspended in mid air with only the pole touching the ground

There must have been 200 of them biking down Las Vegas Blvd.

Supper tonight is at Gordon Ramsay Brugr

Most $$$  I ever paid for a burger and fries were extra

Open kitchen

One last fountain visit before leaving for the airport

 

Back to the airport, easy to return the car.  $215.00 for 8 days rental, wish it was that cheap in Canada!  We’ve had a great time in Vegas, thanks to flights on points, the certificate for the hotel for the week,  and groupon vouchers it made it quite an affordable vacation.  Probably wouldn’t do Vegas again for a week, but would definitely include a couple of nights here on a trip around the area. Next year we are so hoping that Andre is finished his project and he can do income averaging again, but who know where we will end up?