Tonight will be our last night in a hotel before we return to Florida tomorrow, five months of travelling and living out of a suitcase will come to an end. To mark the occasion we have booked tickets to go and see the Cirque de Soleil perform Love this evening.
We do not hurry to get up and when we do I have to go out to the Mirage to collect our tickets whilst Baggage and Lisa go for a swim. Saturday in Vegas is much busier than the other days we have been here and the experience by the pool is not as pleasurable as it should have been, another sign of Vegas not being so family friendly, the pool is crowded with people drinking around the edge and there is a DJ with music booming out, glad I did not go!
On the way back from getting the tickets I have another session on the fruit machines and then head back up to the room where I do some packing whilst waiting for the girls. When they return we head down to the hotel’s buffet lunch, at the weekend they do a champagne brunch, you pay $7 more than the normal lunch buffet, but the champagne flows as long as you want it. The buffet is excellent, though it is one of the ways that Vegas hotels compete to get people through the door to play the machines, so you would expect it to be. I start with Sushi, then have a salad, followed by some Chinese and then a barbecue plate, as if that was not enough I then hit the sweet counter and have a number of samples of the various delights on offer, at the end of it I feel as if I have eaten for a week, it does not hurt once in a while!
After lunch I decide to head over to the Imperial Palace to take a look at the Auto Collection on display there, Baggage and Lisa opt to stay in our hotel. The cars are really impressive, they are all classic and many are worth well in excess of $1,000,000, most are for sale. There are over 250 cars spread across three halls, they range from one of a kind prototypes to cars made famous in the movies such as the Mini Cooper driver by Charlize Theron in The Italian Job. I guess my favourite car is the Ford Torino in red with the white stripe as used in Starsky & Hutch (The Movie) would have been better had it been an original car from the TV series though!
Back to the hotel and Lisa and Baggage are not in the room, Baggage has made a friend her own age and they are down at the pool, they only just get abck in time for us to go across to the Mirage to see Love.
We take the inter hotel monorail from Treasure Island to the Mirage and get there in plenty of time for the show. Love is a Cirque de Soleil show set to the music of the Beatles, a variety of Beatles tracks taken from various periods of their recording career. Paul McCartney and Ringo Star worked with the Love producer to select the music and George and Giles Martin re-mastered the tracks, the show is the nearest you will ever get to seeing the Beatles live in concert. It is great, all the songs have been interpreted and the action on stage depicts the interpretation, the show tells the story of four boys form their childhood during the war through to their early 20s, loosely based on the lives of the Beatles. The live action is combined with projected images which includes psuedo Beatles silouhettes at certain points in the show playing along with the music. There are also a number of segments of studio chat between the Beatles recorded during the originl studio sessions where their albums were laid down. The show is great, we all really enjoy it, a fitting end to our time as travellers.
After the show we head back to Treasure Island, we catch the Volcano show on the way out of The Mirage, water and light is used to give the volcano feature out front of the hotel the impression of erupting. We then try to catch the Sirens show at TI, unfortunately there is a bit of wind and the show is cancelled so we head inside for something to eat and all grab a sandwich. I then head out and take my cameras to get some final night shots of Vegas before we leave and on the way back check out the Sirens show again, which is again cancelled, though a couple of the Sirens are posing in the lobby by way of compensation and I do get to have my photo taken with them. By the time I get back to the room it is well after 11 so I just grab one quick beer before we all settle down for the night, my last bottle of Red Trolley ale will not be drunk as I had two left and will not pack the one after tonight’s to get it back to Florida, if it were to open it would make a right mess!
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