It was a long day….. We stayed at a motel by the Bradley airport, getting up at 4am to catch our 6:15am flight. We arrived in Las Vegas at noon (3pm east coast time), and went to our hotel, the Orleans Casino and Hotel to freshen up. The Orleans is a nice hotel off the strip with only 1,886 rooms so it is not as busy and hectic as some of the large hotels in Vegas.
At 5pm we drove over to the Bellagio to have dinner and go to the Cirque du Soleil show “O”. It turned out that all the restaurants were outrageously expensive (buffet $37 ea., $62 entrees at other restaurants) so we crossed the skywalk to Bally’s and ate in a Mexican restaurant.
We then went back to the Bellagio for the 7:30pm Cirque du Soleil show. “O” has a stage that shifts back and forth from being solid to water. There are lots of acrobatics, flying through the air, and diving in the water. There were performers riding carousel horses flying through the air, then landing in the water and sailing away. At one point they had two performers twirling fire torches. There was another performer asleep on a chair near them. They “accidently” set one of his feet on fire, after a couple of more minutes he moved his feet and accidently set the other one on fire. He sat there for a few more minutes with both feet on fire and then the performers with the torches “accidentally” set his chair, hat, a and torso on fire. He sat there for a few more minutes, basically totally engulfed in flames, and then he got up, picked up his burning chair a and wandered off stage totally ablaze.
The entire show was really amazing and words can not do it justice.
We got back to our hotel at 9:45PM and immediately headed to bed as we have an early start tomorrow. Tomorrow, our first visit of the trip to the Grand Canyon.
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