1. Inside Ceasars Forumn shopping area.
2. The antimated statues.
3. Pete Rose and no customers!!
What a nice day it was – the tempteture were in the middle 60’s. Just nice enough to go outside without a jacket.
We found out yesterday when we checked in that this was going to be the biggest weekend for the hotels as over 150,000 fans are expected for the NASCAR races. What fun we had today just people watching everyone arriving and walking the streets. I forgot to tell you yesterday that last night, the city blocked off the main strip street and the semis for NASCAR drove at high speed up the strip with a police escort – what a sight that was.
Ed slept late and woke up at 7 and went downstairs and had two business calls right away – but that is just fine – the iPhone is wonderful to use.
Barb slept in until 10 and then it was up and out of the hotel. This time we walked south along the strip. We headed for Caesar’s Palace and the Forum Shops. They had expanded since we were here in 2001 and we wanted to see the new shops. What a place it is with every top of the line store there is. Then we watched the two major shows that they have inside the mall - the fountains and sculptures that are animated – a fun show.
As we were leaving the shops, we walked by a sports shop and right in front was Pete Rose who was supposed to be signing autographs, but amazingly, no one was stopping to get his autograph. Barb wanted to go up to him and ask him why he shattered so many dreams, including hers. He was her hero at one time. This was a very sad sight.
Lunch was at the Cheesecake factory where we split a sandwich
After dinner it was to the theater to see Phantom of the Opera and wow, what a play. Even though this place is jammed, we were able to get great center main floor tickets from the casino host. The sets were amazing and there is no question this show is not coming to Bloomington with this set-up and with scaled down sets it just wouldn’t be the same. It had to be maybe the best musical that we have ever seen.
Then it was back to the hotel for a casino session where we did well. As a matter of fact we had the perfect session, Ed won and Barb beat him with a jackpot!! A great night.
