Juky 5th in Vegas

We stop at Starbucks for an 'everything' bagel and a coffee and grab a loungy sofa by the water's edge at the hotel's pool to draw all the things we want to do and see on the map. Afterwards we have a swim and pop in the hot-tub for a half hour before heading back up to the room and getting ready.

We walk through the MGM again and stop at the lion exhibition where we find the tenant on a glass ceiling above our heads. Two lion guys are also in the habitat with the lion about 8 feet away from him and with the postures of construction workers on break. I figure this lion is well fed, but watch out guys ont he day he gets bored of the chew toys and yoga balls he's provided with for comfort.

We cross back into New York New York and are relieved that the crowds aren't the same as yesterdy cause it's Sunday and no longer independance day. We eat a pepperoni pretzel and a jalapeno hot dog pretzel. They haven't quite got the recipe to the same quality as New York (or in fact at all) but it fills a hole in our stomachs.

For the next 4 hours we weave our way through the casinos. Stopping only at 2 slot machines (my big Vegas gamble equals 2 dollars which I lose immediately). I don't have a gambling bone in my body and at both machines I wonder why it is people keep spending their money on it. I guess had I won anything (ever, in my whole life) then I might feel different.

We see Ceasar's Palace, The Mirage, Bellagio, and Treasure Island and we're exhausted. We stop in the heat to watch the fountain show at the Bellagio and have a drink during the Pirates show at TI. We don't even understand what time it is. We did wait around for a show to start at the Forums' shops but it was weitrd and anamatronicy and decided not to wait around to see who Atlantis chose as the successor to his throne. We also thought about going to Sigfried and Roy's Dolphin and big cat containment, but ti cost more than most Zoos cost in the rest of the world and it was outside in the furnace like heat. We stopped in FAO Schwartz and played with all the toys for a while, but were sad when we realised that there were no children there. We stopped in a photographer's gallery and found out his pieces start at $2000 and go up to $1 000 000. They better give you the negatives too if you're paying a million dollars for a photo right?

All the casinos are the same. They're all bigger and better than the next one and more themed than the previous. It's a crazy crazy thing. We wonder briefly if we have any steam left to make it to the downtown Vegas part of town, where the crooners all got started, but decide that we don't and instead spend the nxt few hours satisfying our stomachs and going to see a movie.

Transformers. I don't understand what's happening in any of the fight scenes. I can't follow all the shiny metal or know who's winning at any point in time. I liked the action and I think Shea LeBoeuf is really great (still remember seeing him for the first time in Disney's Holes at an outdoor theatre in Greece). Overall the movie was a great idea considering how sleepy we were and I'm glad we got to see it.

Watched an episode of True Blood and read a few chapters of my book while Fabri played a game on his phone to finish off the day and then fell into a deep sleep... in the fluffy cloudlike bed.