Saturday

Today is our 'normal' vacation day. With the wedding finished, it's time for us to play the tourists. A glorious breakfast at Chin Chins just fuels our anger for entering breakfast hell the day before. It's way better, and against all reason it's cheaper.

Properly fed, it's off to the NY-NY rollercoaster, because roller coasters rock. It may cost $14 for 5 minutes of fun, but damn it, we want to go 70 MPH upside down.

We tooled over to Mandalay Bay for three reasons: I'd never been there, the Aquarium, and Aureole's Wine Tower. We didn't get a very close look at the Wine Tower, but I'm not sure we're missing anything. The structure just seemed 'industrial' and not nearly as tall as our imaginations wanted. I'm sure it would be neat to eat there, but I'm OK with sitting this one out.

The Aquarium was great fun, if slightly colored by our previous aquarium visit. Everyone had an audio wand, which dished out all the info for each exhibit. It definitely solved the problem of crowding around a sign post, but it also forced you to absorb information at a much slower speed.