I've just been looking at some of the Blogs of Note and I've decided that I need to rethink my blog. It's pretty mundane and I don't think very many people are interested in reading about my life. I just saw where the author of To Do List Blog has published a book of over 5000 lists that have been sent to her by people from around the world. It's an intimate look at people's everyday lives, from buying milk to finding a soul mate.
My blog is an intimate look at my life, I suppose. It's special to me. And I hate to share my ideas that I might want to turn into a book. So, for now, I guess you'll continue to get, mundane me.
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I'm writing late in the week because Bill and I have been away on a thoroughly adults-only long weekend. We went to Las Vegas. He gambled as much as I could tolerate, and then spent the rest of the time walking around the strip with me. We saw two shows - Mystere by Cirque du Soleil and the magic of Penn and Teller. I love their magic, but I've seen it all before. They need to work on new material. We've seen about four other Cirque shows, and while this one was fun to watch, it wasn't my favourite (oops, lapsed into British english, there). They always have unusual characters, but this one was a bit more dreamlike, actually nightmarish, and disjointed than the others. I loved the Kyoto-style drumming and the strong-men-that-move-in-slow-motion act that most all of them have. They are amazing. It's been running for years and there are others on the strip to try out if this one doesn't do it for you. I wanted to see Love, which is set to Beatles music, but I couldn't convince Bill.
Of course we indulged in the buffets, one breakfast and one dinner. We decided to sign up for the Players Club Rewards Program to see if we could accumulate enough points to get any freebies. Bill's goal was to get a free buffet. Believe it or not, in the three days that we were there, we earned enough points to have all of our meals that we ate at the hotel and charged to our room comped! And when we return, we'll get a free night in the hotel and another free buffet. Wow! That is one book idea that we kicked around - making the most of rewards programs and freebies. Don't take it! I'd be surprised if it hasn't already been written about, but I have to research to see.
Do you have a favorite program or way of getting freebies that you recommend? I'd like to hear about them.
Finally, the last night we were there, we got a notice in our room that the Frontier would be imploded at 2:30 am, so don't be alarmed by the sounds and rumbles. It was the second hotel that was built on the strip. We really wanted to stay up to see it, and if the window in our room had faced the other side of of the strip, we could have seen it from bed. But I know me better than to try to pull an all-nighter. We were awoken at 2:30 to the booms of the fireworks that preceded the demolition, and thought it was anti-climactic. Then the real explosions started. The percussions could be felt in our guts and the hotel shook when the tower fell.
The next morning we saw people in the coffee shop with shirts on that said, "I saw the implosion," who had obviously stayed up all night. I kinda wished we had. We saw it the next morning on TV. What a sight to see.
