Discounted Shows, Fancy Food, Walking, and Blisters- all in one trip

In Las Vegas, Chris and I stayed at one of my favorite hotels, The Bellagio. We usually go to Las Vegas in January and they always have the Conservatory and Botantical Gardens decorated for the Chinese New Year. It is the Year of the Tiger.

This year they had some cool pandas.

I thought they were really cute.

Below are the ceiling decoration leading into the casino from the upscale shopping area. I didn't even window shop there.

This is the decoration behind the registration area.

When we checked in, they gave us a typed letter stating they had tickets to "O" Cirque du Soleil for 25% off for that weekend. We first stayed at the Bellagio in 2000, I think, and I asked about same day tickets while we there and they laughed at me because at the time "O" sold out three months in advance. So, in 2001, I ordered our tickets three months in advance.

Due the economy they are no longer selling out in advance or at least not in January. I got a ticket in the third row for Saturday night. I think they did end up selling out or almost selling out thanks to the discount.

While I was being mesmerized by "O", Chris went to a fancy steak dinner (at another resort), was treated like a VIP, and met several casino executives.

On Sunday we enjoyed the Champaign brunch at the Bellagio. The brunch might be one of the best deals in Vegas. We later went shopping at the Forum Shops at Caesars. We saw this cute stingray.
That night we went out to eat with Brad at Piero's Italian Cuisine. Yum! We walked through the conservatory again after dinner.

On Monday we walked and walked and walked. First for fitness, then to get tickets for Le Reve at 20% off, then after a feast at Prime, we walked to see Le Reve. I think all we did on Monday was walk and eat. Really we only sat down to eat (at McDonalds, Spagos, and Prime); otherwise, we were walking. I got blisters on my little toes. We had talked about driving to the show but after eating so much delicious food at Prime, we knew we needed to walk.

In my opinion, "O" is better than Le Reve but I really did enjoy getting to see them both for a second time. I wore my glasses to both shows because my eyes get tired at night with my contacts.

On Tuesday we walked for fitness again and then walked around some more to look at the casinos. We had a delicious three course lunch at The Palm. We had steak for dinner Monday and lunch on Tuesday. We needed to do all that walking.

We also had to visit a new tourist attraction on Tuesday. We really like the show Pawn Stars and it was fun to see the shop, Rick, Corey, and Chumlee.