magnificent charles is leaving tonight for vegas.
upon learning that he was heading off on a longish business trip, as per usual, the man did ask if i wanted to accompany him. a quick check on trip advisor confirmed that the hotel he is staying at is quite divine. hmm…the stakes were raised.
and, there was a seat sale.
GETTING TEMPTING!
however, i said no.
why? or pourquoi as some of you bilingual folk might query?
1) GAIL gets married this friday. i am not missing this!
2) i am starting to decorate the church with denby tomorrow.
3) i can't be away for 10 days, not right now!
4) i have other holidays planned
5) i have a half marathon hike planned for friday next. (don't get excited, nothing overly serious).
so, there we be. i did however, google "live shows in vegas" and encourage young charles to see CHER in concert. he was quite rude in his response.i don't understand this. moonstruck is one of our favourite movies!
another friend suggested barry manilow. to this, charles was even ruder, "he's had so much plastic surgery i would sit there all night not recognising him and wondering why the opening act was so long." so he is not a fanilow! (i don't know if i knew this when i married him).
other people suggested cirque du soleil. probably not. we have seen them a couple of times. when i was working with the hong kong standard and CDS was opening up SALTIMBANCO in hk, i interviewed Guy Laliberte, founder of CDS and a few of the performers. Interestingly, they were all very shy, despite their flamboyant "on-spotlight" personalities.
so what is MC going to do in vegas? christmas just ended…i can't give him a shopping list THAT long to keep him busy!
to help in the forgiveness of my non-blogging i suggested he contact JoeInVegas. THAT suggestion was not met with approval. "No. He will think I'm the reason you didn't blog."
I think will buy him Celine Dion tickets. I mean, he bought me front seat tickets all those years ago…shouldn't we even the score! Aint love grand?
I started with one of my fave MOONSTRUCK quotes, so i will end with another…
Rose: Do you love him, Loretta?
Loretta Castorini: Aw, ma, I love him awful.
Rose: Oh, God, that's too bad.
See you in 10 days, MC.
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A fun thing to do in Vegas is to take a shovel, stroll out into the desert and try to find Jimmy Hoffa.
Love to all…Dad
Moonstruck is absolutely one of the best. Without a doubt.
Cher is an icon, but sadly, I can understand why MC might not want to go alone… 😉
I hope you’ll be blogging while he’s away. Of course, that is because I’m selfish that way.
How great is it that you have things you want to do that are keeping you from a trip like that? Instead of having a blank slate and felling like you can’t go anyway.
xoxo
Wait a minute… Joe In Vegas… of course!
He finally contacted me – got an email a few minutes ago, but will he be leaving already? You should have told me in advance (writing this Thursday evening 1/9)
Would love to have seen you too.
Someone’s clock is off, last post shows posted Jan 7 at 11:36 am. You are a day ahead, it’s Jan 11, 7:30pm here, Jan 12 in the midday there.