Vegas, baby! – Part III

Yesterday, Lago returned from her first day of the conference and we went out to dinner at Smith & Wollensky’s, one of our all-time favs. The S&W here is just down the strip from the MGM Grand. The food was excellent as always, and we think it even tops Morton’s, another fav. We had the Clos Du Val Cabernet, as we often do, but this time we had the 2001, which I don’t think we’ve had before. Wa-owh! Was that good!!!


The Strip was crowded last night following the NBA All-Star game, but it was good to see the police out in force with the huge crowd. We never did catch a glimpse of anyone famous, as far as we knew, and I imagine most are headed out of town today.

Not much on tap for today. I took a walk over to the Mandalay Bay this morning, where Lago’s conference is taking place, and picked up a coffee on the way back. Tonight we’re venturing out to the Rio to see Penn & Teller. Hopefully we can get a taxi as it’s supposed to rain here later this evening. There was a taxi shortage during the NBA All-Star festivities. I heard some people waited up to two hours for a taxi. Luckily, we’ve walked everywhere so far.

Wednesday there’s a special concert for conference attendees & guests featuring “one of the greatest rock bands of all time.” Yep, you guessed it… Styx! It’s a free show, so we figure, why not.


This morning, workers were taking down the NBA All-Star banner draped across the pyramid.