The last full day goes like this

Hotel prices, from the early stages of planning, were set to skyrocket on the Friday. Sarah sets it up so that we check out of our separate rooms and check back into just one room for the four of us. This goes off without a hitch. (In typing this right now, I remember one time I shared a bed with Blaine. It was during a school trip to New York City. That first morning, Blaine whispered, “Dave. Psst. Dave. Your ass is pressed up against my leg.” To which I replied, “Aghhhhhhh!” as I flew out of the bed. With separate beds this time around, this incident didn’t not reoccur.)

We had breakfast at the Paris buffet, and then gambled there for… too long. As pretty a casino as it is, I’ve never won a dime there ever. Colleen and Blaine joined the player’s club and got free sweatshirts for it. No buffet this time, but free shit is free shit, really. We went to the Bellagio briefly. On the way in, we walked through a big, slow-moving revolving door. Passing through, I jokingly pushed Blaine into the glass, he jokingly pushed back. Later on the way out, I sort of heard Colleen say, “Hey, I can push you this time,” and she caught me totally off guard with a hip check, and I ended up splayed out against the window, face pressed to the glass. With a dozen people behind us and a couple more heading towards. Holy crap did we laugh.

Not show-ed out just yet, we picked up tickets for another Cirque de Soleil show: Ka. Ka is (sort of) the story of twins that have been attacked by bandits, and separated from their families and one another. It follows the two in separate stories as they journey to be reunited. It’s filled with marital arts, pyrotechnics, and insane wirework. There’s a part where the stage rotates ninety degrees so that the audience gets a top down view of a battle. I mock the story only because it sort of gets abandoned later in the show. There are a few scenes where you have no idea why the thing that’s happening is happening, you just know that it is and that it’s cool to look at. Regardless, the effects and the stunts are ridiculous. Check out the aptly named Wheel of Death if you have a minute.

Next morning, had a quick bite, returned the glorious Pacifica, and flew home (again Economy Plus bump-up for no good reason). And that’s the trip in a very bloated nutshell. We had a fantastic time, and unlike most trips we've taken, we actually had an entire day to recouperate before jumping back into work.