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Tickle Your Fancy is one of our Themes. Since The Reading Cafe is a place we can all hang out, while we drink our coffee or sip our margaritas, the talk of everything books can lead to funny stuff when we are having fun. Since we have been enjoying this feature…It is time for another Marcie…..

Adventures in Las Vegas

So I’ve recently returned from my trip to Las Vegas. I’m happy to report the trip disaster fairy stayed home, but her friend the giggle fairy ventured along with us.  We had ourselves a good time and lots of laughs which began as soon as we landed.  First off we’re dead tired cause we’ve been up since 3:30 a.m. eastern time and it’s 10:30 a.m. pacific time, we’re jet lagged and just want our luggage and go to our hotel.  Standing in the cab line I see a cabbie outside her cab, singing along to the music she has playing.  Guess who’s cab I get, yup the singing cabbie and she’s a friendly one.  She starts talking to us about Vegas and then goes onto her life story.  My sister and I are trying our best not to burst into giggles.  She’s telling us about her new car, her Mother’s Day, even pulls out her card to show us, and anything else under the sun.  Cab rides are always entertaining.  It’s amazing what perfect strangers will talk to you about. 

If anyone has ever been in Vegas then you know all about the kiosks/vendors in every single shopping area.  I don’t know what it was this time but I think we had some vendor magnet attached to us that we didn’t know about or else I would have turned it off. I swear every day we were harassed by at least one vendor in each different area.  If they weren’t trying to sell us a facial product, it was a hair product.  Now I realize it’s their job to try and make a sale, but really come on, how much B.S. do they have to shovel at us???  We got stuck with this one guy for almost an hour in his shop after he actually took us by the hand and walked us to his station.  He’s telling us all about this product that was featured on Dr. Oz.  I don’t watch him so I have no clue about the product, nor do I care.  He then proceeds to apply it to our faces even after we said no thanks.  He’s trying his hardest to make the sale and the whole time we’re rolling our eyes and laughing at the whole situation.  As if I’d spend $500 on eye cream, what’s in it liquid gold?????  All I could keep thinking about was the scene in Mama Mia where Christine Baranski’s character is hung over and they are trying to wake her up and her friend is yelling; ‘donkey testicles, get the donkey testicle cream’.  Really what do they put in that stuff that makes it cost that much, donkey testicles??? 

Another vendor was trying desperately to sell us a hair straightener. He even went so far as to sit my poor sister in his chair and proceed to take her hair down and start straightening it.  She’s telling him it’s okay he can stop now, does he listen, no, just keeps doing her hair, telling her about the product, how long are we in Vegas, if she comes back every day he’ll do her hair for free cause he likes her.  Oh puh-lease, gag me already.  He’s dripping in something and it’s called oil, cause he’s a slick one.  It got to the point where we felt we needed to ninja roll out of the way whenever we saw a vendor, or go purchase a pair of blinders, you know the kind they put on horses to keep their focus straight ahead.  It was just crazy.  I swear we attract them all, I really need to get my idiot magnet taken care of before my next adventure. (makes note to self about this)

Has anyone ever gone to spa for an exfoliation???  Well I can tell you there’s no need for spending that type of money.  Next time you want a full body exfoliation, just take a trip to the Grand Canyon on a windy day, and not just a breeze, I’m talking gale force winds.  The wind was so strong the day we went that you felt it pushing you as you walked, and if I were back home and it was winter, that wind would have shut my city down, we’d be in a blizzard with zero visibility.  If it were somewhere tropical it be classified a tropical storm. I’ve never experienced wind that crazy.  Thanks to Mother Nature I experienced nature’s version of a full body exfoliation and ate more sand and dirt then you could imagine.  Sand was everywhere, in my nose, my eyes, ears, hair, let me just say the shower was the first place I went when I got back to the hotel.  😉  At one point I was standing near an edge for a pic when a gust of wind came up and I couldn’t see a thing cause of my hair in my face, but I  went into the stop, drop and roll position for fear of being knocked over and pushed to close to the edge of the cliff.  It was just wild that day, the Canyon is a wonder to see, but do so on a non gale force wind day, you may enjoy it more.  😉  BTW, how many times does a person fall into the Canyon?  Just once.  That was one of the jokes our tour guide told us.

You know, the whole time we were in Vegas we discovered something important about clothing and woman.  Anyone can wear a bikini, short skirt or skin tight dress. I couldn’t believe some of the outfits and swim suits I was seeing.  I swear some were wearing dental floss and passing it off as a swim suit, and how the heck some were walking in those shoes I’ll never know.  My poor foot (the injured one) looked like a balloon every day thanks to the heat.  I was living on IBProfin and icing my foot every night, and these girls are walking on shoes with heals that looked like spikes, oy vey my foot hurts just thinking about it.   Vegas pools and the strip are a great place to kick back with a drink and people watch.  Boy did we get an eyeful on our trip, it’s always entertaining and brings on the giggles for us.  Aside from people watching, sightseeing, chatting it up with other tourists, and having a good time, we ate at some great places and saw some amazing shows.  For anyone thinking of heading to Vegas I highly recommend Le Rev at the Wynn.  I’m a fan of Cirque du Solei shows, but Le Rev blows them out of the water.  It was freaking amazing and one can really see Maks’(from DWTS) dance style come to life in the dance numbers.  He’s an incredible dancer and teacher and it showed through in Le Rev. In case anyone’s wondering, yes I’m a fan of Maksim Chmerkovskiy 😉  If you’re looking for fun drinks and amazing desserts then The Sugar Factory at the Paris is the place to go.  Your jaw will drop when you your dessert is delivered to your table, they are incredible.  One thing’s for sure, Vegas doesn’t skimp on the food servings cause they are huge and delicious and the drinks don’t disappoint either.  I’ve been to Vegas a few times now and I’m ready to go back again.  It’s a fun place to vacation and there’s always something new to do and see.  (walks off humming Katy Perry’s Waking Up in Vegas)    

Marcie