We spent the morning at the beach/pool at Mandalay Bay. The kids had a blast, but the sun was very strong and Marina got too much even with the sunblock. Emily too. We got lunch at one of the umpteen restaurants inside the giant mall that is the hotel and then came back to rest before hitting Las Vegas Boulevard. We walked over the faux Brooklyn Bridge at New York New York. We took a couple of trams. We watched the choreographed fountains at the Bellagio.
By 6pm, we were at Treasure Island to get our tickets for a 7pm Cirque du Soleil performance, Mystere. The kids loved it, but we were unable to fit in dinner before the show and settled for some ice cream (and cookies for Izzy). When the show was over, we pushed along with the masses of people back down to the Bellagio; Izzy really wanted to see the fountains again, in the dark. Marina got overwhelmed by the enormity of it and remarked that it seemed impossible that Clinton and Las Vegas could be on the same planet.
After our second fountain show (the earlier one was arranged to Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On”; the latter was to Michael Jackson’s “Billy Jean”) we hopped in a cab back to our hotel. The kids were exhausted and fell into bed and asleep; we all ended up skipping dinner.
It turns out that we have to register the kids for school next year at noon tomorrow. It’s about a five hour drive from here, so we have to be out with the birds. I think we’ll all be grateful to put Vegas behind us and end this trip. It’s been amazing, but it really is time to be done.
The kids want to do a video diary of our year in California. Izzy has been insisting that he wants to be a cinematographer when he grows up, though he pronounces it cinnamon-tographer, which sounds yummy to us. Perhaps you’ll be able to follow us on youtube.
July 19th, 2012 at 4:15 am wonderful photos…thanks very much! xoxoxo
July 19th, 2012 at 5:10 pm Oooh, I wish I could scrapbook those pictures