Saturday when I finally rolled out of bed, after keeping everyone waiting for breakfast we headed to Venice...okay the Venetian for brunch, again a buffet, a common theme in Vegas, and wandered up a level to the shops and indoor/outdoor Venice, only cleaner.
Once in the streets of Venice, a "street" performer walked up to David to check his reflection in his head:-) great fun, unfortunately, Dave's camera broke and the only on I had on hand was an outside only disposable, to the picture did not turn out. Pity.
We also took a gondola ride in the outside canal, as Jeff and I took the indoor ride before. We had an adequate gondolier, but recommend overall the indoor gondola ride. We then headed back to Treasure Island for some pool time. The pool was a disappointment in that it was over crowded and not nearly big enough to accommodate the large number of guests, accompanied by smokers all over and not relegated to a smoking area, but the sun felt amazing! Connie and Dave scored four lounge chairs, prime real estate at the poolside. That made it really nice for us, and we were grateful as we were at the bar getting drinks unaware that they were already at the pool.
In the evening we attended our main reason for this mini-vacation which was taking in the Blue Man Group. I highly recommend this interactive show which incorporates alternative ways of communication to speaking. Great fun! Following the show we hunted for dinner. We were told that Morels was one of the top 10 restaurant in Vegas. Being a steak and seafood fine dining experience this appealed to the three carnivores, and I could get a baked potato for $7.00...the steaks were a bit more pricey at $185.00! Hmm I wonder if you get to select the cow it comes from! We ended up back at Treasure Island and had a delightful dinner, including champagne to celebrate Dave and Connie's 13th wedding anniversary, for just over the price of a steak dinner across the way for all four of us. We played the tables and slots following dinner all preferring to stay in the hotel that evening following dinner. I did not see Connie as she went up to bed having fallen asleep between pressing the "spin the reels" button and waiting for them to stop spinning. She went to bed after that without further adieu. I bet a dollar or so and got a return of $75.00, I quit shortly thereafter. Jeff on the other hand paid for his entertainment:-)
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