Dinner And A Show.

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Doin' thangs in June.

I didn't want to go fully no plan like I did last trip, so I have made the Wednesday night my "date with myself" night. I'm going to do dinner at the lovely Lago at Bellagio, to soak up whatever resort credit I've accrued before and during the trip. I've got $68 worth now, plus with whatever drops in from the CC this month and whatever I earn between Sun-Wed in town I should have a solid hundy and maybe $120 ready to unload. Lago has a great view of the fountains and I've never eaten there, so we'll give it a go around 5:30p.

Then it'll be back over to the home base Cosmo to see OPM (formerly Opium). I saw it several years ago and thought it was the best Vegas show I had ever seen to that point, and apparently now they have re-tooled the show so it'll be like seeing it from scratch. Dropped $120 on the ticket but fuck it, it's a known quantity and I do need to patronize shows once in a while there so I'm not just dragging my ass from bar to bar every night.

I'll have a couple hours from the end of dinner to the start of the show so I can catch a few drinks in one of the many bars onsite at Cosmo before going in. Then after 11:30p when the show lets out I'm free to roam, or if I want to play it cool, I'm already 5 minutes from the room.

So a real plan night for the first time in a while, sounds good and might be something I do on future trips, again to break up the endless procession of bars. 

Bars will still happen too, though.

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