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Las Vegas trip
Sep. 7th, 2013 05:34 pmSo I headed off to Vegas and had a pretty quiet Thursday. I worked on my metadata class (why am I taking a class in this crazy busy time?) and played a little WoW since it was Dark Moon Fair week.
Russell was engaged so I went up to the MiX Bar for dinner and enjoyed the view of the city. It claims to be on the 64th floor, but is really more like 42 since there are no floors between 37 and 60. How crazy is that? But it was fun and I brought Russell up there Friday before heading off to dinner because the view was fun.
On Friday I got up early and went snorkeling down the "lazy river" in the Mandalay Bay water park. Very boring snorkeling really, but I wanted to do it. I had hoped my suit would dry out sitting on a lounge chair but evidently the water park keeps it sufficiently humid that even in the desert of Las Vegas things don't dry. A lovely way to start the day though.
Then I went to Photoshop World where Russell is working in the Code Mines (erm, Code-a-thon), just to say hello. (And grab a hug.) He and a couple of other engineers were coding on the floor and it sounded like quite a crazy thing but they did actually get some work done.
We went to dinner at Rao's and had lovely Italian food and then to see Absinthe at Caesar's Place. Absinthe was awful. Well, it was mixed but awful won for me. There were great performers - acrobats, aerialists, burlesque and trapeze artists. And then there was the "commentary" which insulted everyone in the audience, every ethic and racial group and even Nazi jokes. And an amazing display of rape culture as three victims from the audience were on stage and two men asked to "lap dance" on a woman who was obviously very uncomfortable and even held out her left hand and protested, "I'm married!". If there was a different ringmaster and style, it would have been a fine show. As it was I was horribly uncomfortable from the Nazi joke 10 minutes in until we were finally released. An additionally uncomfortable thing is that reading the reviews of this show on trip advisor and yelp and such... the things that bothered me don't seem to be what other folks don't like. The people who hated it didn't like the sexual references or the homoeroticism present in some acts.
Saturday morning we had breakfast with Gwen & Jeff who were coming into Vegas for a Freedom Paws event and then headed to the airport. All-in-all, it was a great visit to Las Vegas. I even bought some sparkly clothes.
Russell was engaged so I went up to the MiX Bar for dinner and enjoyed the view of the city. It claims to be on the 64th floor, but is really more like 42 since there are no floors between 37 and 60. How crazy is that? But it was fun and I brought Russell up there Friday before heading off to dinner because the view was fun.
On Friday I got up early and went snorkeling down the "lazy river" in the Mandalay Bay water park. Very boring snorkeling really, but I wanted to do it. I had hoped my suit would dry out sitting on a lounge chair but evidently the water park keeps it sufficiently humid that even in the desert of Las Vegas things don't dry. A lovely way to start the day though.
Then I went to Photoshop World where Russell is working in the Code Mines (erm, Code-a-thon), just to say hello. (And grab a hug.) He and a couple of other engineers were coding on the floor and it sounded like quite a crazy thing but they did actually get some work done.
We went to dinner at Rao's and had lovely Italian food and then to see Absinthe at Caesar's Place. Absinthe was awful. Well, it was mixed but awful won for me. There were great performers - acrobats, aerialists, burlesque and trapeze artists. And then there was the "commentary" which insulted everyone in the audience, every ethic and racial group and even Nazi jokes. And an amazing display of rape culture as three victims from the audience were on stage and two men asked to "lap dance" on a woman who was obviously very uncomfortable and even held out her left hand and protested, "I'm married!". If there was a different ringmaster and style, it would have been a fine show. As it was I was horribly uncomfortable from the Nazi joke 10 minutes in until we were finally released. An additionally uncomfortable thing is that reading the reviews of this show on trip advisor and yelp and such... the things that bothered me don't seem to be what other folks don't like. The people who hated it didn't like the sexual references or the homoeroticism present in some acts.
Saturday morning we had breakfast with Gwen & Jeff who were coming into Vegas for a Freedom Paws event and then headed to the airport. All-in-all, it was a great visit to Las Vegas. I even bought some sparkly clothes.
