Summer of Tournaments – Day 47
I slept in until 7 AM this morning so we got a late start to the day. We picked up Terry downtown and then went to the Mirage so he could shower and check out there as he’s heading back to Denver this evening.
Absolutely have to pose with the Chippendales if you visit the Rio
If you like Beatles music, this is a must-see show at least once
Even though we stayed at the Cromwell for three nights, we never made it over to the Linq, so I drove into the Quad valet and we took the walk along the shopping area of the Linq all the way down to the observation wheel. It wasn’t very busy but it was still early and fortunately there was a lot of cloud cover today, which made a summer day in Vegas tolerable.
This is a restaurant along the Linq walk: how would YOU pronounce it?
We had lunch at the KGB Burgers (Kerry’s Gourmet Burgers) in Harrah’s. Terry and I had hamburgers and Cindy had the salmon sandwich. All the food was excellent and the salmon got double thumbs up.
We drove along the Strip and I thought I should at least get a picture of the newest Game Works in Town Center. I was here yesterday, but it wasn’t open, so this would give me another chance. If you remember the Game Works that was adjacent to the M&M store along the MGM property square, it was a three level game store with a wall climb, bars hidden in corners and a cool little restaurant. This new place is nothing like it. It simply has no atmosphere or character—just a long square room with bars and a restaurant in the front and games in the back—think Chuck-E-Cheese. There was a cool, small bowling alley and a room that was called E-gaming where online gamers could play on their systems. Otherwise, it’s pretty much such the same old games you play for tickets that you turn in for over-priced prizes.
The “new” Game Works in the Town Center beneath the AMC theater complex
The bowling alley at Game Works looks pretty nice
Neither Terry nor Cindy had been to the Ethel M. Chocolate Factory off Sunset in Henderson, so we took a little drive down there to check it out. As it was Saturday, there weren’t many workers today, but there was one line filling in boxes of candy as they are already beginning to package hearts of candy for Valentine’s Day.
Getting your Valentine’s Day candy ready for next year
There’s a huge cactus garden outside the chocolate factory—the two seem odd partners
We called Dave and agreed to meet at the Rio Diamond Lounge to have a couple of drinks before I need to drive Terry to the airport. There weren’t many people there as we enjoyed a drink, but as soon as 4 PM approached the place began to fill up because the hot food was being put out. In a surprising move, the DL put out the usual chicken wings, but today added BBQ ribs. We were simply too full from lunch to eat anything, but Dave reports they were quite good.
Dave agreed to take Terry to the airport for me so I could work on this trip report because tonight we have tickets to the Michael Jackson Live concert here at the Rio and it’s not going to get out until 10:30 or so, and we need to leave very early tomorrow. Sunday is the WORST day to leave Las Vegas but because Cindy has to be back to work Monday, we’re going to brave it, but we’re going to leave as early as possible. I will report on the concert and do a final round up for the trip in tomorrow’s final report.
More tomorrow
I slept in until 7 AM this morning so we got a late start to the day. We picked up Terry downtown and then went to the Mirage so he could shower and check out there as he’s heading back to Denver this evening.
Absolutely have to pose with the Chippendales if you visit the Rio
If you like Beatles music, this is a must-see show at least once
Even though we stayed at the Cromwell for three nights, we never made it over to the Linq, so I drove into the Quad valet and we took the walk along the shopping area of the Linq all the way down to the observation wheel. It wasn’t very busy but it was still early and fortunately there was a lot of cloud cover today, which made a summer day in Vegas tolerable.
This is a restaurant along the Linq walk: how would YOU pronounce it?
We had lunch at the KGB Burgers (Kerry’s Gourmet Burgers) in Harrah’s. Terry and I had hamburgers and Cindy had the salmon sandwich. All the food was excellent and the salmon got double thumbs up.
We drove along the Strip and I thought I should at least get a picture of the newest Game Works in Town Center. I was here yesterday, but it wasn’t open, so this would give me another chance. If you remember the Game Works that was adjacent to the M&M store along the MGM property square, it was a three level game store with a wall climb, bars hidden in corners and a cool little restaurant. This new place is nothing like it. It simply has no atmosphere or character—just a long square room with bars and a restaurant in the front and games in the back—think Chuck-E-Cheese. There was a cool, small bowling alley and a room that was called E-gaming where online gamers could play on their systems. Otherwise, it’s pretty much such the same old games you play for tickets that you turn in for over-priced prizes.
The “new” Game Works in the Town Center beneath the AMC theater complex
The bowling alley at Game Works looks pretty nice
Neither Terry nor Cindy had been to the Ethel M. Chocolate Factory off Sunset in Henderson, so we took a little drive down there to check it out. As it was Saturday, there weren’t many workers today, but there was one line filling in boxes of candy as they are already beginning to package hearts of candy for Valentine’s Day.
Getting your Valentine’s Day candy ready for next year
There’s a huge cactus garden outside the chocolate factory—the two seem odd partners
We called Dave and agreed to meet at the Rio Diamond Lounge to have a couple of drinks before I need to drive Terry to the airport. There weren’t many people there as we enjoyed a drink, but as soon as 4 PM approached the place began to fill up because the hot food was being put out. In a surprising move, the DL put out the usual chicken wings, but today added BBQ ribs. We were simply too full from lunch to eat anything, but Dave reports they were quite good.
Dave agreed to take Terry to the airport for me so I could work on this trip report because tonight we have tickets to the Michael Jackson Live concert here at the Rio and it’s not going to get out until 10:30 or so, and we need to leave very early tomorrow. Sunday is the WORST day to leave Las Vegas but because Cindy has to be back to work Monday, we’re going to brave it, but we’re going to leave as early as possible. I will report on the concert and do a final round up for the trip in tomorrow’s final report.
More tomorrow
