I had set the alarm on my phone for 9a so we wouldn’t waste the morning, but we all started stirring at about 8a. Mike was rolling over and I reminded him I wasn’t his wife before he decided to grab a teat and tell me to roll over. There were a slew of things we wanted to do and we decided to put together a schedule over breakfast. We crossed Las Vegas Boulevard (it really doesn’t become “The Strip” until night time) to the Denny’s directly opposite the Monte Carlo.
There was a fair-sized line for a table and Rob agreed to wait for our turn while Mike and I tried to find the movie theatre. We knew one thing we wanted to do was to see The Hangover Part 2 on its opening day. This, too, was conveniently across the street from the Monte Carlo, but the entrance wasn’t obvious. We saw a sign for the theatre, but it was over the entrance to the parking ramp. We went to the next pedestrian entrance and took the escalator upstairs. This turned out to be the department store, Ross. Rather than losing ourselves trying to find the theatre, we immediately turned around and took the escalator downstairs. We figured we wouldn’t be able to find it before our table was ready, so we cut our losses and went back to Denny’s. Outside we saw “actors” dressed as Elmo and Bumblebee trying to convince people to pay for pictures with them.
Once at our table, we had plenty of time to plan our day. In fact, I would say the wait for the food took longer than the wait for the table. At one point, the waitress said she had put our order “on the slow side.” Thanks to Rob’s restaurant industry experience, he knew she probably had forgotten to put in our order. I was fine with the delay, as I would have the chance to tell her I put my wallet “in the other pants.”
Meanwhile, we planned to hang out by the pool and then take in a matinee showing of Hangover 2. We would also purchase tickets to a couple of the shows we wanted to see, including Jabbawockeez at the Monte Carlo and one of the many Cirque du Soleil offerings. I recommended seeing the Crazy Horse Paris show at the MGM Grand (formerly known as Le Femme). The Wife and I saw this show a few years ago and it was very titillating, emphasis on the “tit.” We decided to have dinner that night at Bahama Breeze as Rob could get us a discount on the meal; again, thanks to Rob’s influence in the restaurant industry. We felt a lot better having a plan in place.
After breakfast, we made another effort to find the movie theatre entrance and eventually asked a security guard for help. If we had walked the other way down the cross street, we would have found it. We decided to catch the 2:45p matinee and returned to the Monte Carlo. We visited the concierge to see what tickets we could get for a Cirque du Soleil show. I was on board for Zumanity, but I think the consensus was for O at the Bellagio. Regardless, the prices were well above what we wanted to pay, so we chose to get tickets for Jabbawockeez for Friday night. Since we were guests at the hotel, we received a discount on the tickets.
