Day 150

The Strip

Oct 3, 2013, 10:10 PM

What a WILD day!! We road the bus to the Mandalay Bay, on the strip then started working (riding trams and walking) our way north. We hit the Mandalay Bay, Luxor, Excalibur, New York New York, Bellagio, and Paris. By the time we got to Paris we were ready for a break. We had covered a lot of territory by this time. It was a full day already. Kim and I had decided early on we were going to make a concerted effort to photo bomb people taking selfies. Come on, you know you want to too. Anyway, we had done some shopping, we watched fountains, we went back into the Bellagio to take photos of a fall decorated courtyard. I'd left my camera at home forgetting that there were so many things to take pictures of. Thank God for Sandy having her camera and she very graciously allowed me, to borrow it for the day. There was the cutest covered bridge with little water arcs, daddy and Sandy wanted a nice photo at the beginning of the bridge under the water, Kim who had been dying to put her hand in the water to make it splash on the people that were posing under it saw her chance, so as daddy and Sandy were waiting for me to snap she splashed the water and daddy and Sandy got it good. Oh we do have fun!!!!! We were having fun, but now we were tired and we wanted to sit and take a break. We'd walked down to Paris and we were walking around the casino looking for a nice lounge, we saw a sign for the Neapolitan Piano Bar, they were doing 2 for 1 drinks 4-6PM. So we found the bar and went to open the door, it was locked. We checked the time, it was 4:15PM. We checked the sign again, it didn't mention specific days. I knocked on the door, there was a bartender speaking with someone that I could see right through the door, but did they even look my way? HELL NO!!!! As a matter of fact they walked away. Now that got me HOT!! As I turned around there were two people in suits walking by, we grabbed them and asked what the deal was. The gentleman went to the door to knock, but they were ignored too. Oh this isn't going well. Both of them got on their phones, they were making calls left and right. They got a hold of the Beverage Shift Manager. While we waited for him to show up, Steve was pissed and ready to leave but at this point it was a matter of principle. I don't put up with people shitting on me and that's how it felt, I at least wanted to see this through. While we waited we did have a nice conversation with the first two people that came up, they were asking us about our trip and where we were all from. The Beverage Manager  came up, opened the doors, and apologized, but that didn't change the service level. We went in but the bimbo waiting tables still ignored us. As we walked past her, she was holding open the door, she told us, "You can come in but we aren't ready for you". This girl finally came near the table and it was just to wipe it down, REALLY. We wait longer, she comes back around and puts a candle on the table and handed us drink menus. She had nothing at all to say to us, she didn't take our order and she acted like we were really annoying the hell out of her just being there. Kim was sure they were going to spit in our drinks, we were pissed, we left. We were walking away and the Beverage Manager came running up to us to find out what had happened. So we told him what had transpired after he had the lounge opened. We really didn't appreciate the attitude from the server and we were leaving. He was so apologetic and he offered to take us to their bar on the casino floor and he wanted to buy us the first round of drinks. We went and had our drinks and we did have very nice service. Then he brought Steve and I a bottle of champagne and fancy chocolate. We did appreciate his attempt to make amends. We decided to take the bottle with us and I sampled the chocolate, it was very nice. We discussed it at the table and we came to the decision to give the bottle of champagne to the first bridal couple we found and really make their day special. 

After this we made our way down to the Venetian. We watched Gondola rides and just took in the beautiful scenery of the Venetian Casino. We found a very good Asian Noodle place to eat and sit but I think that was our down fall. We sat for over an hour and rested our tired feet and when we went to leave oh that was difficult. I think that caused a quicker end to our night than might have otherwise been. We wanted to see the pirate show at Treasure Island so we again walked out to the street and down to Treasure Island. As we are fighting the crowds someone kindly told us that the pirate show had been canceled sue to the high winds, so now back home. At this point I am thanking God we are going home I'm beat. Kim and I were going to play some more roulette, but the tables upped the minimum bet and we weren't willing to lose that much money. So the night was done!!!!! (Or so we thought) Steve and I said good night to Kim and went out to the street and what we saw will scar me forever. We ran into a man and woman pirate street performer/picture taking type persons. When we got closer we realized the female pirate was wearing a skirt, corset and a tri-corner hat, a smile, and NOTHING else, plus this woman was HUGE, and she was decorated with sequined pasties, and I don't mean the meat pie pastie like in Michigan either. Oh it was not pretty, however a tourist family felt it note worthy and they gave their baby to the woman and took pictures. YUCK!!!! 

Well I'm a day behind on my blog, but I will catch up. Good night all!!