Honeymoon in Vegas Day 2

This morning I was able to get up before Ax & read a while. It seams like my only reading time I make is on vacation or on my lunch hour at work. It takes a long time to finish a book on about 30 minutes 4 times a week. It already feels like I'm on vacation missing work, but it's only Sunday. This is going to be a great vacation even if we do nothing else. Ax is sleeping in! He never does that. I'll have to bug him about sleeping the day away later:-) We don't have anything to do till 10:00am when the hotel shuttle takes folks on a daily grocery run.

Once Ax was awake he wrestled with the Internet in our hotel room. Here is a new trick we learned: Sometimes the router just isn't getting enough power from the outlet it's plugged into. Sometimes you just need to take it to another outlet or unplug other electronics from that outlet. This may save you an hour or so and a call to tech support.

We headed down to the concierge then to breakfast at the hotel's cafe. We booked LaCage tickets for tonight, KA tickets for Tuesday & a cheap car rental on Thursday. I really like Enterprise. When you need a car, "they pick you up." They were the only ones that would rent me a car before I was 24. And they don't have any problem with a non-driver renting a car for a driver. And they're still competitively priced on top of that. OK enough of my commercial...

At breakfast our service was poor. The girl at the counter all but rolled her eyes when we placed our order. Teens have such great customer service skills, don't they? We went grocery shopping after that so we won't have to look at her little expressionless face again this week. Yeah! It's really the little victories, it's it?

We managed to let ourselves get roped into our first sales presentation of the week. We didn't have any plans till the evening so we went to a "time share" presentation. We like it. It's a points system with no specific location or week of the year. They have lots of locations in the places we want to visit & contract with another "time share" company that has even more locations all over the world.

OK, now for the most interesting part of a slow day... After "system issues" at the sales presentation we managed to miss the last shuttle that we needed to catch to make it to The Riviera in time for LaCage. The hotel sprung for a cab for us. The cab driver was a hoot. He told us where the scarier parts of town were as we passed by & how may hundreds of thousands of points he had with Worldmark. It'd be nice to have the time to use that many points. On the way, there was an emergency with another cab. They have a system - green lights - I never noticed them before. So we were on the lookout for a cab with his green light on so that the cops could be called to surround it. OK, we didn't find it, but the driver was such a colorful story teller of what could happen or what has happened in the past, it was exciting enough just looking for the green light.

We managed to get hooked again at the Riviera when asking for directions. We set up a time to go to another “time share” presentation on Tuesday & we’d get dinner & a show out of it.


We didn't bring the camera with us to LaCage. We thought, what's the point, they probably won't allow cameras & we won't have anywhere to put it. But we didn't think about getting pictures after the show. Oh, well. Now we have a reason to go back. The show was hosted by "Joan Rivers." He does an awesome impersonation. He also changed gowns like 30 times during the show & looked great in everything. That's impressive enough. There were impersonators for Reba McIntyre & Celine Dion, Dolly Parton & Madonna, Cher, Diana Ross, Judy Garland & Bette Midler, Michael Jackson & 1 fat guy that did a spoof of Madonna & Tammy Wynette.

They were all good. I’m not exactly sure how Michael Jackson fits into a drag show, but he isn’t exactly a man is he? “Michael Jackson” had a small belly, that was distracting for me, but the act was right on. I think the audience wasn’t the right age because the applause wasn’t in the right spot for a Michael Jackson performance. A recreation of Michael's first moon walk should have brought the house down. But the applause didn’t start till the music changed in the montage.

“Celine Dion” was hilarious. The same guy returned as Reba MacIntyre. I’ve been to a concert of hers, he nailed it! “Cher” was awesome, I wish I had his body … No wait, I don’t want all his parts. He was funny too. The performance was great!. “Diana Ross” was the one I was in awe over. I’m still not completely convinced that he was lip-syncing. “Dolly” & “Madonna” were perfect with a sense of humor, too. That impersonator stands out the most in our minds because the last number he changes from gown to suit & takes off the makeup. It’s amazing what makeup can do. The man who played Bette Midler & Judy Garland was pretty good. But I’m afraid I was a little creeped out by his Judy Garland performance. He was doing a specific recording or performance of hers when she was older. She had a bit of a shake in her hand then, I think, & he was reproducing that. If not, he has gotten shaky & I’m still a little creeped out. It’s one thing to be a young & beautiful drag queen, but I just don’t feel the same way about an old drag queen. The show was great & the folks we met in the audience were funny too.