We were heading through Vegas on our way to San Diego from the Grand Canyon. Why? The South African wanted to see the city of sin. We got a cheap place just off the strip. The bad thing. It was a smoking room so it smelled a bit ughmmmm funky. We decided to spend two nights in Vegas. Let me first say I understand why they say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Not from personal experience or anything. So we decided to just take a walk on the strip during the first day seeing we came in late and was a bit tired. Nothing really eventful. Except for the fact is was 115 degrees F (46 degrees C). The second day we headed out again and ended up going into the Luxor Hotel. My sister saw it on one of her favorite shows and asked me to take some photos of it. So we headed in and saw that there was a Titanic artifact exhibition. So we asked them how much would it be to go in. Well 35 dollars. BUT!!!! “Are you married?” they asked. Well yes indeed we are. So they told us we can do the exhibition and a Cirque Du Soleil for only 120 dollars TOTAL!!! Oh and a free buffet. Well of course seeing that the Cirque De Soleil show on the strip is over a hundred dollars per person. So they asked for our names. Well Lindsay has not changed her last name yet as we were traveling and she would have had to change everything while abroad. No thanks, that can wait! So then they said do you have a joint account. Well why yes…. Oh wait you are South African…. Sorry we don’t do South Africans…. REALLY??!!!! Then they go on and say: “Do you have your marriage certificate with you?”…. Uhmmm yes normal people do that. “Okay so what can we do?” we asked…. well nothing. If you were from the same country or rather American it would not be a problem…. So we left. Me going in with a smile on my face not expecting anything and walking out feeling like I lost everything. Well I guess I can say I kinda know how it feels to win and lose in Vegas. So we decided to just try and hit up one of the places on the street that also has “specials”. So we ended up with a time share thing where we listen to a pitch and then we get deals on tickets. So okay we can do that. Bam let’s do it. He asks if we have a joint account. Well yes…. No sorry that will not work. WOW!!!! So he called his boss asked if that can work seeing I am South African…. His exact words were “Sorry you need to get your green card asap”. The guy was not a bad man so he tried to help us out. Well turns out he had some complimentary tickets to a Motown show. Well Lindsay has been to Vegas but never to a show on the strip. So here we go. Sure let’s do it. He just asked for a tip seeing the tickets are complimentary. We only had a 20 in our wallet so we gave that to him. He through in some freebies. He gave us 50 dollars per person free gambling money at a nice and cheap casino. At least it had some discount coupons with it. We used the beer and Subway discount… So off we go feeling like we at least got something to do. Las Vegas is REALLY expensive and we were on a tight budget so this made us feel better. We ended up walking on the strip and getting our “free” slots in. It is basically selected machines that are rigged to make you “win” a lot of money. But you can only cash in if you hit the jackpot ;). We got our two beers for a dollar and headed to the show. I just needed to ask how much the tickets were worth and she said 75 dollars a person. Now at least we knew the show couldn’t be too bad. After all it was in the Venetian Hotel. So we headed it and not to our surprise we were probably the youngest people in the crowd ;). It turned out that this Motown show was put on by 4 white Australians. It was bizarre but great fun. After the show we walked around on the strips looking at the lights, drunk people, loosely clad girls, and a few street performers. We walked by one street performance and they ended up choosing Lindsay to participate with 2 other people. They did an acrobatic performance and they needed three people to stand very still why one of them jumped over all three. They were really good, really funny and Hawie was the "rich white guy" who tipped them $5 because that was all he had in his wallet. All and all a great night.
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