Andrea Bocelli in Las Vegas

Neil surprised me with a trip to Las Vegas Nov.30-Dec.3 to see Andrea Bocelli in concert at the MGM arena. It was such a wonderful concert and we even had some of the worse seats in the house!! I still cried because his voice was so beautiful live. He had a huge orchestra, a choir, a soprano and a tenor who shared the stage with him. I would say he sang about half the songs that were preformed. The rest was split up among the others. It was an opera style concert and most of it sung in Italian.
We stayed at the Gold Nugget on Fremont St. It was a very nice hotel but quit far from the strip so everything we wanted to go to was a cab ride away. A plus to staying off the strip is that your hotel room is cheaper. We won't stay there again or on Fremont St. Neil and I aren't into the gamboling thing so most of our time was spent on the Strip.

Another fabulous evening was spent at the Paris Hotel listening to the dueling pianos. We got there really early (the show started at 9) so we could get a seat. We stayed until they ended at 1am. How the show works is the audience requests rock-n-roll songs, along with a tip, and these guys play and sing it for you along with some comedy. It's a free show, except for the tips and alcohol you consume.