On Foot

I did a lot of walking yesterday - about six miles. I played on the computer for a while in the morning, had a way over-priced breakfast in the Grand Canal Shoppes, and then set out around 11:30 for the roller coaster at New York-New York. I got to the casino about 30 minutes later, and it’s 1.5 miles, so that’s right about average walking speed for a human.

The line for the ride was pretty short, but I was annoyed that I’d had to put everything into a locker. I was there by myself, so without my Sidekick or iPod I had nothing to do. But the line moved along pretty quickly, and I rode by myself (with nobody next to me, that is) in about the middle of the train. The coaster itself was really good, probably because I had no idea what was coming. The entrance and queue are inside, and from street level you can’t see much of the track, so it was all a surprise and I enjoyed it.

I thought I’d go over to the M&M’s World across the street and see about getting lunch there, but it turned out to be just a giant store. I put together a bag of M&M’s from the colormix section, but that was all I felt like getting. I had lunch at a Mexican place next door and then went back to the hotel, walking through the Aladdin’s shopping mall area. It’s too bad they are tearing it down, it’s really attractive - the interior architecture makes me think of browsing a market in Casablanca.

In the evening, we had tickets to see Zumanity, the naughty show by Cirque de Soleil. We had a hard time getting my purple corset closed because my jeans were baggy, but we managed and A laced me up. We were going to take the Deuce bus to the show but the driver went right past us, so we scrambled to get a cab instead. The show itself was Cirque’s usual type of thing, but with more boobies. I really could have done without the heterosexist commentary from the guy on the left, though. There is one male homoerotic scene, and the guy was saying “ew” to himself. The rest of the time, if the performer was male, he was saying things like “where are the chicks,” and then when they appeared he said “yeah, now we’re talking” - I swear I wanted to pop him a good one. But overall the show was very good, although our seats could have been better.

We decided to walk back, and I saw a number of women staring at my waist, heh! We stopped in at the Mirage to visit the gift shop for Cirque’s show “Love,” which is set to Beatles tunes. I didn’t find anything there for myself because the pretty stuff was so expensive, oh well.

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