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Published: October 6th 2008
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Oasis RV Resort
A very 'la di da' place. Saturday, October 4, 2008 They say what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas. It’s a good thing too. We feel like we breathed in enough smoke today to last a lifetime, and it’s a good thing all that smoke stays in Las Vegas. Guess they haven’t heard of lung cancer here, although we saw plenty of cancer awareness posters and a billboard that said ‘we fight cancer here’. Ha! The air was ghastly in spite of attempts in the better quality hotels to scent the air with all sorts of fragrances - designed to subliminally encourage more shopping and gambling no doubt.
Aside from the nasty air around us, both indoors and outdoors, we enjoyed seeing this fantastic city. Fantastic meaning too unreal to be real.
Kayla hadn’t been to Las Vegas in almost 40 years, and the entire place has changed. What was the ‘strip’ from 40 years ago, including the once glitzy Golden Nugget, is now relegated to a small funky side street people go to visit to see the old Las Vegas the way it was ‘back then’. The way it is now is too unreal to adequately describe. Each magnificent hotel/casino/entertainment complex
New York, New Yorjk on the Las Vegas Strip
Complete with a miniature Statue of Liberty is a city in itself and the Rough Guide speaks the truth when the writer says you will get lost trying to find the way out once inside. We think this is deliberate, to keep you trapped in the neverland each one offers, so that you will give up and gamble just to stay sane.
OK, so Kayla couldn’t resist trying a hand at the ‘one-armed bandits’, now all high tech slots with no arm at all and nothing but buttons to push while watching your money slowly drain away and listening to incessant electronic noises of the machines all around you. We lost a whole $4, one penny at a time, before getting too bored to play any more. But by late evening all seats were full with people waiting two and three deep to lose their money. No one here has heard that the American economy is not doing so well.
A ‘must do’ was to see a Cirque du Soleil performance, and as always, they didn’t disappoint. We thoroughly enjoyed seeing Mystere, which is one of six resident shows by Cirque. Earlier in the day, we had stood in line for the ‘half price’ and
discounted tickets, and the discount on both the show and the dinner before were well worth the lineup wait.
The temperature was nice and cool by Vegas standards, which means comfortable for us, so we made the right choice by diverting here to wait out the weekend storms before seeing Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon. After the Cirque show, we wandered back along the strip back towards Bellagio to see the famous multi-coloured fountain show, but it had to be cancelled because of high winds, so we will have to see that another time - in 40 years or so when we are back in Las Vegas again, that is.
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