Return to Vegas: The Experience - Day 7 - Shopping, Lights and Gondolas

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Tuesday18th April

Today’s Objectives:

1. Gun Range
2. Lion Habitat – done Monday
3. Rainforest Café – done Monday

Outcomes:

1. Cancelled due to lack of time
2. Breakfast at the Venetian
3. Fashion Show Mall at 3rd attempt from Saturday/Sunday
4. Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat from Monday
5. Pool time
6. Fremont Street Experience from Friday
7. Gondola Ride from Monday

With a revised schedule by cancelling the Gun Range, we managed to have a clear day in which to catch up on the backlog of non-achievements! Getting up was getting more difficult, so I presume we were well adjusted to the time zone by now!

About 9 ish we headed off towards The Venetian for breakfast, ending up in the Food Court as the only other places open had huge lines! Another breakfast croissant and coffee special later we made a move over the bridges past The Wynn to Fashion Show Mall, which was well open today.

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TC had a great big list of shirts, socks, shoes and goodness knows what to work through, whilst I was just happy enough to browse until he insisted on buying me an outfit. That put me into overdrive – couldn’t find anything in Macy’s so off we trotted to Robinson-May, where I thought I liked a pair of culottes (gauchos they call them). We thought about that and went off to Dillard’s where I found two tops and another pair of gauchos. Now I am not at all sure about US sizing so grabbing items in large, medium and small, we went off to a changing room. They obviously have experience of these matters as the waiting area was as large as my house with loads of settees – the lady told TC to sit down and wait and off I went. Now, being optimistic, I started with the small and was surprised to find that they fitted.
So that sorted, we went looking for coffee and restrooms before spending a bit more in the ABC store – a sort of Woolworths. TC wandered into Skechers and couldn’t find what he wanted, but I saw a pair of trainers that I did want and sat down to be served. He wandered out without clocking me – in the end I had to send the shop assistant out to fetch him back – “you see that man – well tell him to come here!”

TC now had seen all he wanted and we returned to Macy’s to buy his list. He plonked me on the sofa outside the restrooms this time and disappeared for 35 minutes. Every so often I caught a sight of him charging between departments – the staff that passed me, were worried I wasn’t being helped, so I tried to look busy by reading a magazine! Eventually I was fetched and introduced to this man in the shoe department that had been helping TC. Goods were bagged up – CC signed off for nearly $300, hands shaken and off we went.

We walked over the bridge back to Treasure Island and caught the free tram to the Mirage to find the Secret Garden. It was unfortunate that we were loaded down with bags and there was nowhere to store them. We paid our $15 each entry fee and stood for the welcome speech – don’t touch the dolphins etc etc. Went down to the underwater viewing and came back up just as the trainers were doing something – they do it all at random intervals to keep the dolphins alert.

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We strolled past the three pools to the secret garden – here there were some alpaca, leopards, lions, cheetahs and of course the famous white tigers – all dozing in the hot afternoon sun.

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More dozing cats...

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And some dolphins...

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From here we walked back to the hotel and I had time for a swim before we took the Monorail up to the Sahara to catch the bus downtown to Fremont Street. The Strip is technically not in Las Vegas – real Las Vegas starts on the way to Fremont Street. The bus went past various wedding chapels, some dubious looking shops, the place where you get your marriage licences from before arriving at Fremont Street.

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Another great day, the freemont experencie is great

tracy

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another good day and great pics

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Loved the pictures from the Secret Garden, we loved it there and it was nice to see the dolphins playing and not having to "perform" for the crowd.
We went to Fremont Street for the first light show and ended up staying for them all as they are all different, so we spent a whole night there!
Our gondola man was great, he asked where we were from amd chatted for a little while before starting his repetoire and he was really good.
Love Rio

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A great day and more fab photos.