We slept in again this morning, which felt great after a long night of scrubbing away the remnants of that bath bomb!! We ate our traditional breakfast of cereal and watermelon along with beer followed by shots of bourbon.
We have been using Uber a lot out here. It’s been great getting us wherever we want to go without having to pay for parking or deal with traffic. We used the Uber app to get us a ride from the timeshare to The Flamingo hotel and Casino.
If you didn’t know, mobster Bugsy Siegel was the one who designed and built the original Flamingo Hotel and Casino in 1946. Unfortunately, there is nothing remaining of the hotel and casino that he built.
We wandered around the hotel and walked through the wildlife habitat. It was basically just a walkway of palm trees and waterfalls with a few flamingos, koi fish and turtles.
We found an outside bar called Carlos N Charlie’s where we grabbed a beer and a mojito and laughed at all of the signage around the bar. We decided not to eat there. Eddie really wanted Mexican food so I found a place outside the Flamingo and the LINQ.
After lunch, we walked through the LINQ hotel and Casino, looked at the High Roller and decided to head to the Venetian. There was a man in a stretch limo golf cart sitting outside of the LINQ. I figured it couldn’t hurt to ask if he could give us a ride. He gladly took us on a behind the scenes tour to get us to the Venetian.
The Venetian. WOW! Another beautiful hotel and Casino. We strolled through the shops and hotel area and bought tickets to go on a gondola ride. I don’t know what it’s really like to go on a gondola ride, but our gondolier sang songs to us in another language and told us jokes. It was beautiful.
Go figure, we’re on a gondola ride in the Venusian hotel and casino in the middle of the Las Vegas strip and as we approach a bridge, we hear people calling our names! My parents and their friends, Nancy and Joe (who let them here from New Mexico) were waving and calling out our names from the bridge! Small world, huh?!
After we got off the ride, we helped my parents and their friends book dinner reservations and Eddie and I continued to explore. Shortly, we’ll be meeting up with them again at Treasure Island to go see Cirque Du Soleil Mystere.
Right outside of the gondola ride, there was a Godiva shop. Eddie knows what I like and he went in right away to buy me a cone of milk chocolate covered strawberries! He’s the best ❤️
From there, we found an ice bar. We’ve never been in one but everyone knows how much I love to eat ice, so we had to go in! We were given jackets and gloves and bought drinks that came in ice glasses. We took shots out of an ice sculpture. It was pretty cool; literally! 🤣 In case anyone was wondering, I ate the entire ice glass my drink came in!
We continued to walk around the casino a bit more and now we’re trying to figure out how to get across the street to Treasure Island to see our show.
More to come….
