Friday, April 5, 2013

Las Vegas March 2013, Day 3

We were getting up at 8am anyway, so arriving after 9am to the site of the time share complex was no problem for us.  This particular one so happened to be within the network of Nan's mom's timeshare company, so we've heard of it - there aren't that many in Vegas, after all.  So we put on our endurance+3 gear and patiently waded through the filling out of paperwork and waiting, etc.  Luckily, the sales company knew what was up.  Each couple/family got their own salesperson, and the pitch was literally made over a generous breakfast.  It really helped my attention span to be able to nibble on some breakfast pastries and sip juice.  And it wasn't a hard sell - once we politely declined, they handed us our Blue Man Group tickets and wished us a pleasant vacation.  That was a relief, because the lady who made us attend was extremely pushy. You never know sometimes, with these kinds of things.
At any rate, since we were on the south end of the strip, I steered us in the direction of the Silverton Casino to check out the reports of a gigantic fish tank.  It was there, but it was still early for feeding time, so we wandered into the humongous Bass Pro Shop.  How big, you ask?  There were multiple waterfalls, multiple swimming-pool-sized fish tanks, and a huge floor area to display entire boats.

Fish feeding was interesting, because all of gigantic rays in the tank were handfed by the diver right up against the glass.  We didn't stay long, though, because the aforementioned bad parents vacationing in Las Vegas were taking a vacation from controlling their children, and we were largely getting run over by very loud kids.  We headed to the Monte Carlo to catch the 4pm Blue Man show.  There were lots of kids at the early show on Easter, which made me nervous, but they weren't too much in the way. The show was awesome as advertised, here's the last song, which may spoil it for you if you are sensitive to spoils?  The rear level of seats was 90% as good as the front orchestra, so if it comes down to that decision, don't spend a lot more to sit up front.  Though the very front row gets ponchos to wear :)

Our tickets came with a 2-for-1 deal at the nearby cupcake shop, so obviously we had to do that.  After a light nap, we went to the Village Buffet the the Rio, which is supposedly the best (and only) seafood buffet on the strip.  It did have unlimited lobster tails as advertised, though lobster tails in bulk somewhat turn out like crawdads.  Still, lobsters and oysters, I'm not complaining.  Though, service was pretty spotty, I'll complain about that - they were kind of closing up underneath us.