Las Vegas & Blue Man Group

It certainly lives up to its reputation as "Sin City". Cool city to people watch - you've got your single girls and guys looking to party and live it up, you've got your brides/grooms to-be enjoying their pre and post wedding parties and you've got your retirement age groups out to explore the city.

We only had a couple days there so was a flying visit.  We had a nice wander around in the afternoon, after a delicious lunch at Wolfgang Puck's Cafe in Caesar's Palace. There is an abundance of nice restaurants here, and every one seems to be headed by a famous chef. The fake sky inside Caesar's Palace is certainly deceiving, giving the illusion that it is still day when it might be later already. The shops are very high-end stuff, and certainly you get some quirky shops too.

We got tickets to see Blue Man group that night. Certainly worth the price of the ticket. Its a comedy fun show,   completely silent but for the music. 3 guys paint themselves blue and dress in black outfits, supported by a 7 piece band and some improvised musical instruments played by the Blue men. They also play with food - throwing it across the stage into each others mouth - and paint, splattering the first 7-8 rows of the audience with it when they beat their drums ( they were given ponchos in advance ).  We also got covered in toilet paper, huge streams of it spread over the theatre!  Had a great time and even got a photo next to one of the Blue Men at the end!

- Y