Las Vegas Day Two

So the big news from yesterday was The Price is Right Live. This isn't the TV show, but it's just like it. All the same games Plinko, The Big Wheel, etc. They take your picture against a green screen before the show and give you the souvenir photo. Anyway, we were about part way through the show and they call Susan's name to win 1000 players points at Bally's. We were happy enough about that, but it comes time to call the two players to go play the showcase showdown and they call her name again. They take her and the other girl backstage for a bit and when the curtains open again they are up there at the little showcase showdown podiums. The showcase was a blender, a snow blower (I was thinking what would we do with that in Orlando), a cruise to Mexico and, "A New Car!!"  They each bid on the same showcase (different from the real show) and you actually only win one of the prizes in the showcase. Unless you come within $100 of the actual price then you win it all. Anyway the other girl over bid and Susan won. At the time though I hadn't been listening to the rules and though she won the whole thing including the car. As I said already, traded the cruise in for $300 because we would have had to fly to LA to get on the cruise.

Susan also wanted her picture taken with the girls above. They were called the "Rink Rats" a girls hockey team from Canada, in town for a tournament or something. They were really funny. One of the girls got called for a game and she was so excited she couldn't speak.

Big day of walking around, on our way up the strip from Luxor to Bally's for Price is Right, we say a sign at the Monte Carlo to take the tram to the Bellagio. Needless to say the walk through the casino took us past enough tables to finally stop and play. About 1 1/2 hr later we were finally waiting to get on the tram.

After making it to the Bellagio, we passed a chocolate store with the world's largest chocolate fountain. The hotel is beautiful and everything looks wonderful there.

They have a conservatory in the hotel. All the plants in the photo are real of course, the room smells wonderful. Played a few games at the Bellagio and then moved on to the game show.

After the game show, we crossed the street to Caesar's Palace and did some damage there. Susan did damage to Caesar's and they got me. I did get to play in my first Vegas poker tournament though, had a great hand pocket Kings, and practically doubled my money on that hand. The very next hand, I get pocket kings again except this time the guy to my right has pocket Ace's. That was pretty much it for me, a few hands later I was out.

From Caesar's we took a cab ride up to Fremont St. the old Vegas section. The overhead light show was really cool, all these moving lights and designs set to music. The casino's there really feel like it's the old west or something. Some kind of cross between quaint, old and trashy. Cheep though, Susan played some 50 cent roulette, learned how to throw the dice at the craps table up there. Had a midnight meal to fill us up again.

Susan's mom wanted us to go play some slots at the Golden Goose. Sorry, if you look closely the Golden Goose is now a strip club. 

Susan posing with the worlds largest Golden Nugget. We missed our chance at Binion's to take our picture with a million dollars. Maybe we'll get back up that way again.

Susan is about out of the shower. Time to get rolling again, the general plan today is MGM Grand maybe the Venetian hopefully the fountain show at the Bellagio if the wind is better today and maybe tonight the Stratosphere. Thanks for reading along.

Marshall and Susan