Wednesday April 12th 2017

It was a very warm day in Las Vegas. The temperature got into the 90s. Tomorrow we pay the price with a high wind warning. The high pressure system influencing today’s weather will be to the east and a low pressure system will be moving in from the west.

Bellagio Conservatory Chinese New Year display with Spring updates.

Butterfly sculpted with flowers.

The pictures in this blog entry are all of the Bellagio conservatory. They were taken over the last two days. Lately the Bellagio has been saving money by not doing as big a change with each seasonal update. This spring design is a reconfiguration of the Chinese New Year design. The main center piece and some of the other structures were not moved out. The flowers and sculptures were all changed around the big structures. The next update for summer will likely get a major overhaul. They usually do a patriotic theme for the Fourth of July. You can see a live picture of the conservatory on the Bellagio webcam.

Snow goose ?

Mister Tortoise

I spent the first half of the day on chores around the RV. The biggest one was catching up on the laundry. This RV park has a good laundry facility and it is cheap by comparison to some places I’ve been. A wash load is a dollar twenty five and a dryer cycle is only a dollar. It didn’t eat into my quarter supply to significantly.

There are fish in the pond.

Vibrant colored flowers.

After an early supper at home, I drove to the Las Vegas strip. I arrived around four for my 7PM show at the Bellagio. I used the extra time to checkup on the changes to the New York New York and the Monte Carlo Casinos since I was last in Las Vegas in the summer of 2015. This is the longest time between visits since I started coming to Las Vegas before the turn of the century. (It sounds longer if you say it that way. I think it was 1998.) I’ve been coming at least once a year since then.

Flower encrusted bird.

A new arena has opened behind the New York New York and Monte Carlo Casinos. It called the T-Mobile Arena and will host the new Las Vegas NHL Hockey team. In the summer of 2015 it was under construction. To support the arena, both casinos had the area between them have been reconfigured. The Monte Carlo has had the most changes including an expansion of the theater into a venue for headliners. Other changes are ongoing at the Monte Carlo behind construction walls. When all the changes are finished the resort will be renamed and probably have a big price increase. Change is supposed to be good, but I’m not impressed yet.

I got back to the Bellagio in time for the 7PM Cirque de Soleil O show. I’ve seen most of the other Cirque shows on the strip and wanted to see this one. Some people say this is the biggest and best. I think that may be true from a pure acrobatics perspective, but I think I liked some of the others better. There is almost too much going on in O. I was often watching some of the side performers when the audience around me would react to something center stage that I hadn’t shifted my gaze to. The side performers are part of the staging to support transitions and provide safety spotters for the main acts. I guess if I’m enjoying the side acts the whole show must be pretty good.