We headed off to Las Vegas (again!) this past weekend to celebrate my newly acquired ancientness. We got there late, really late, Thursday night and did our usual run to the Wally-world to get snacks and check out the cheap clothes that we can never find here. It was after midnight before we finally checked into our hotel, the Southpoint. It's a newer hotel, south of the airport and the outlet mall, on Las Vegas Blvd. The rooms were great - clean, comfortable, large, with pillow top mattresses and quality cotton sheets. Also, you didn't hear the kids screaming up and down the hallways, so that was nice.
The highlight of the trip was the Garth Brooks concert on Saturday night. Again with the late hour, a 10:30 show, but that meant they weren't trying to clear out the theater for the next show. It was a smallish theater ~1500, with just Garth, a mic, and an acoustic guitar. Trisha came out in the middle of the show and did about three songs, with the great ear-worm "walk-away joe". That song is still running through my head. Garth did the usual suspects (Friends in Low Places, Wolves, Thunder Rolls and many others), along with selections from his musical idols. It was after 1:00am before we got out of there.
It was a bit of a challenge to get the tickets, both on the day that they went on sale and the day we went and picked them up. Since he's not doing other shows any more, and only limited shows in Las Vegas, the tickets went fast and furious. And they are quite concerned about scalpers - you had to give all the names in your party when you bought the tix, it was printed on the tix, they wanted to see both of our id's when we picked up the tix the day of the show, and then we got wrist bands and "club" stamped. At show time, they scanned the tix, the wrist band and the stamp to make sure you were the ones who had bought the tix. Oh my. Can't say as I blame them, but still.
All this was follwed up by a shopping spree at the Lane Bryant at the Outlet Mall. T-shirts, dress shirts, a skirt and a dress (unbelievable!), jeans and a jacket. Fun fun fun!
