Viva Las Vegas

Las Vegas always provides amusement and our recent visit is no exception. Here are just a few observations from our trip:

• Craps is definitely best played on a $5 table. I am fascinated by the game and love the energy of the groans and roars as players roll the dice, hoping for that point to be hit. I did a little studying before the trip to remember what some of the bets signified, but of course, once on the table, the amount of possibilities became quickly overwhelming. You can also have so many bets on the table and thus, the need (for me at least), to stick with a $5 table.


• Even though Taxicab Confessions is currrently filming in New York City, there are probably still remnants of it being filmed in Vegas. I say this because one of our evenings, we hailed a cab to get somewhere and immediately I had the sense of the driver being from the show. His manner was deadpan, fairly disengaged and answering our questions with little information. When we got out of the cab, Nan and I discussed how we both had this sense, but Nan had more information--she had seen a camera in the cab and a sign about it. Unfortunately, she didn't say anything so we missed the opportunity to engage the driver more. Clearly, we were not doing anything racy enough in the cab (like having sex or divulging secrets) to capture viewers on a show.


• If you want free drinks without any effort, go sit at the bar and play video poker. As long as you stick $20 in the machine, they will keep serving you whatever you desire. This was where we always closed the evening, slowly pushing buttons, listening to a band play its cover tunes (same set each night), and drinking our choice of the evening.


• To get a seat at the pool, you truly do need to get there at 9am or hope for a bit of luck. Nan and I proved lucky for the first two days, sauntering out to the pool around 11ish, finding chairs someone was giving up as they headed for lunch. On our final day, though, we hit the pool when it opened, happily nabbing two chairs before the throngs of those at 9:30 could not find a chair.


• Harvey Fierstein was meant for drag. His reprised Broadway role of Edna Turnblad in Hairspray (at the Luxor) was fabulous, complete with his baritone shrieking housewife voice. The way he moved (painted cleavage and all), added the camp to the already campy show.


• Elvis is alive, rocking a pose on Fremont Street.

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