Tuesday night we had tickets to Zumanity, a burlesque type cirque de sole show. We took advantage of another of our free nights and stayed at the Paris hotel. $39. We got an early check in and got an upgraded room with a beautiful view using Jim’s “high roller” platinum status lol. Hung out at the pool for a few hours, had a great dinner at a steakhouse in the New York hotel and went to the show. It was…
The next day we took a ride to another park featuring red rock. This one was called Valley of Fire. After Red Rock I wasn’t getting my hopes up but this one turned out to be much more interesting and beautiful. It was almost a bit like Zion with cool rock formations and beautiful colors. They also had one rock formation with stairs way up high to some petroglyphs. Jamie did pretty well climbing all the way up those stairs…
We said goodbye to Jess and Gunther and Jim went to work. When he got back we decided to take a ride to a town called Primm, on the border of California and Nevada where we had passed two casinos while travelling on 15 between Los Angeles and Vegas. What piqued or interest was that there were two old time looking casinos called Buffalo Bill’s and Whiskey Pete’s that looked like they were from the old west . One boasted…
The other highlight of the week was going to the MJ live show. This was a Michael Jackson impersonator that blew us away. He looked like Michael, he sounded like Michael, and he danced like Michael. This was a fabulous show and another on my must see list. Click on the picture above to see the videos.
May 16-21 our friends Jess and Gunther came for a visit. We had a great time casino hopping, hitting some great restaurants, and one day at the Flamingo pool with a cabana. One of the highlights of the week was our dinner at the Hafbrauhaus, a German restaurant where Jim and Gunther took their shots a playing the long horns. Those are trumpet type instruments that are about 15′ long. At first neither of them could make a sound blowing…
The rest of April was spent with Jim working and playing golf and Jamie starting physical therapy. And a few trips to the casino. We also discovered the benefits of casino rewards cards. When the Murphy’s came to town they were staying at the Flamingo which is a Caesar’s property. Jamie got a discounted hotel stay with her rewards card so we decided to stay there too. While we were checking in they had deal that if you signed up…