Zombie Burlesque Show at V Theater at Planet Hollywood

Zombie Burlesque at the V3 Theater is a funny variety show! Not a fan of the Zombie movies and TV shows? Neither am I, but I loved this show and never fear it's not gross or scary, it's sexy and fun.

I don't do justice to this show due to recording this on a iPhone and not being seated near the stage but I put together some small parts of some of the acts in this video. For high quality video that does justice to the show visit their website.

This show is fairly priced but if you check around on Groupon or Living Social you will likely locate discount tickets for it for around 50 percent off.

The theatre is small enough that there's really not a bad seat in my opinion.

Live music, dancing, great looking female zombies, with occasional partial nudity. If you went to see Absinthe and were offended you will want to skip this show as there is suggestive material in it and  one song that I thought was very funny is about a certain part of the male body and includes a prop. ;)

The Zombie MC of the show is hilarious, energetic and quick with his numerous costume changes. Sometimes he seems to be channeling a bit of Nathan Lane.

I failed to take a photo of him because I personally get the creeps from contortionist acts but Turf from the TV show "America's Got Talent" is one of the acts in Zombie Burlesque. If you like contortionist acts he's terrific!

There's some audience participation in the show as the gentleman in the above and below photo was from the audience.

The sexy ladies in the show are introduced with cute names such as, Marilyn Monrot, Sophia Lamorte, and Tiny Bubbles who of course isn't quite a lady or tiny.

I thought the cast had good voices and were very talented and if that's not enough toward the end of the show they give everyone in the audience shots of Jello Vodka! I don't like Jello so I didn't try one but my friend Debbie said it was good!

Below is the other audience participation act, a take off on the Newlywed game that pulls a couple from the audience.

This is our friend Gator Larry with Debbie and Brett looking on while a sexy Zombie tries to eat Gator's brain. It was so pickled with beer at that point I don't think she was successful, or was she? ;)

After the show the cast is outside of the theatre for a photo meet and greet. Below I'm with Tiny Bubbles.

I really had a good time at this show so much that I would see it again sometime.

Giada! Giada De Laurentiis New Restaurant at Cromwell!

On August 26th, Teresa, Liz, Terri and myself ate at Giada De Laurentiis new restaurant Giada which is located inside of Cromwell.

From the moment you walk inside the restaurant it screams out Giada! It's a beautiful, airy, bright restaurant that has Giada branded on everything. Yes, I mean almost everything! Giada's signature G is on plates, chairs, napkins, pens, pepper grinders, etc…no chance of forgetting for one minute where you are dining, and who would want to? It's a fabulous restaurant that reflects the elegant taste of Giada!

It's difficult currently to get a reservation at Giada and even trying to book more then 6 weeks in advance for a Tuesday it was either 5:15pm or after 9pm so we went for a early dinner.  I'm glad we took the early seating as we were among the first in the restaurant and got to see it briefly without the crowds it had later.

Even though we had a reservation and were there on time and the restaurant had just opened we still had about a 5 minute wait for our table which was fine. However I suspect as the restaurant filled up those with later reservations waited much longer.

I was happy with the wait because it meant photo ops for me!

I always enjoy restaurants that have kitchens where I can see the chefs at work, not to mention the displays of delicious breads and antipasti.

Liz, Teresa and myself while we are waiting to be seated. Of course Terri is taking the photo so that she can avoid being in it!

When the hostess came to seat us a nice touch was her offering to take us on a tour of the open kitchen area above. It only takes a couple minutes and I enjoyed it.

We had a lovely corner table where we could see the Bellagio fountains when they went off.

Our table was in the corner here and I liked the location so much I have requested it for a future dinner reservation.

Below one of six chandeliers that quote Giada's "I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything".

The cocktail menu along with some appetizers is presented on a iPad. The cocktails are named after movies that her Grandfather Dino De Laurentiis produced.

Click on the photos to enlarge them if you want to see the ingredients in our cocktails.

Liz ordered wine and as usual ice for her wine. Her ice was served in a small bucket with tongs.

Teresa ordered the Hannibal which I thought was interesting enough to take a video:

Teresa liked it!

SLS Grand Opening Night and Room Photos!

SLS opened to the public at midnight on August 23rd, 2014! Photo below with the fireworks is from their page on Facebook.

Video of SLS Fireworks before they opened their doors to the public, courtesy of my friend SDguy1234! Ignore their comments about me, they were just bitter they didn't get VIP access. ;)

I was excited to cross off my bucket list a casino opening when we found out that my friend Gwen's Vegas birthday trip coincided with SLS's opening! Gwen arranged for our group (Barb, Ger, Teresa, myself, Terri,  Gator, Gwen and her Mom) to go in style in two Wynn Limos and thanks to her contact with a SLS casino host had arranged for the limos to let us off in the VIP entrance area and for us to enter 20 minutes before they opened their doors to the general public.

Even with the Casino VIP parking pass it was disorganized. SLS employees waved our limos around in what seemed to be circles even though Gwen had been given instructions for them to use the Paradise Entrance. However eventually we were cleared to go and were able to enter via a side door entrance.

As we walked to the casino area we passed some bars and a couple restaurants.

My first impression is that it's dark in the casino, much darker for example then Aria was when it first opened.

It wasn't crowded yet as most of the VIPS from the fancy dinner event we weren't invited to had either left or gone elsewhere on the property. There were a few people lined up to get "The Code" players card and others were having drinks at bars or standing around waiting to enter the casino.

I had signed up online to speed up the process of getting my player's card so of course I was the only one in our group that got the problem machine with the staff not knowing what to do and while the rest of our group received their player's card quickly I was last and just barely made it to them before midnight.

The sign in various locations warning us from trying to enter the casino early.

After the fireworks and the doors opening to the public.  I had other friends (Sdguy, Dproxima, and Brent) that were waiting outside with the crowds but the line was too long and they were only letting in so many people at a time so they went on to the Stratosphere to return later when the lines had died down a bit. They later told me when they did get inside to explore SLS they also weren't impressed.