Purple Cupcakes!!
*silly squeal*
Hostess now has Willy Wonka swag- they've put Johnny Depp on the box and the cupcakes have purple frosting and purple inner goo! What can I say, my inner child is amused. Hell, my outer child is amused. :p
So, the trip to SoCal, AZ, and Vegas went great. We stopped by Downtown Disney and gawked at all the cool villian stuff I MUST own someday. Like the $150 Maleficent and Evil Queen statues.... *drool*
Then we picked up the multitudinous ratties in California City, dropped some off in Bullhead City only to aquire more, then off to Prescott to deliver the final sum. Crashed there overnight, played with their adorable two month old puppy- australian shepherd/doxie mix. So cute! Then it was off to Vegas, with one brief stop by a very impolite police officer who gave us a speeding ticket but admitted to his inability to actually clock our speed. (Not to mention we were only going 75mph by the time he caught up with us from being on the OTHER side of the freeway.... Asshole...)
Drove the length of the Strip so Dianne could see it all, then we wandered around Excaliber, where they had really cool poster and greeting card artwork in one of the shops that I couldn't resist picking one up, and the first person I thought of to give it to was darkmoon. LOL Feel special.
Then through Luxor, back to Excaliber, back to Luxor. By this time we'd killed more time than we'd realised, so we headed over to the Hyatt where they have the whole "Star Trek Experience" thing. It was late, so we'd missed all the shows/museum tour, but the gift shop was still fun. My only bitch- not enough Q stuff. I mean, one postcard with a pic of him from the first episode, and one boxed set of four VHS episodes he was in called the "best of Q". I expected better. The lady did offer the small comfort that they usually do get more stuff in, but as soon as they get it, it sells out. I said that's usually the sign to get more in. But yeah, that would be logical. Far be it for any corporation the size of the Star Trek domain to do anything as reasonable as that. LOL
We ate at Quark's Bar. The food was decent, but a bit overpriced IMHO. But the drinks..... Ah, those were totally worth it. :) Yummy!
Then we wandered over to Treasure Island and caught the last show "Sirens". OMG, it sucked so bad. :( Now, keep in mind, this is a huge free show done outside of the Treasure Island Hotel, involving two pirate ships and lots of explosions. The version of the show that JustNate and I had seen last yearish was good. Cheesy as all hell, bad jokes and pirate-speak, but still FUN. A good ole swashbuckling adventure on the high seas, and appropriate for people of all ages. Which is important, after all, since half the audience has children in tow and anyone wandering by can see the show. *sigh* So this one is the Sirens calling a pirate ship to its doom, makes the Sirens the victors and not the antagonists, and adds in a lot of fairly tasteless hip-hop. Not to mention most of the Sirens aren't wearing enough of anything to mention. They look like Vegas showgirls. The kind you need to be over 18 to view and have no business gyrating their hips at 8 year old children on the prommenade while making barely masked lewd innuendo to the pirates. Yeah, NOT a family show. Not that I mind shows that aren't family, BUT. If you're going to make it free and put it on the street, it should at least have the fact that there are children present in mind... And if people wanted a burlesque show, they'd have paid money for tickets to a GOOD one... JMHO.
Anyhoo, then we drove like beasts and got back just in time to unload the car, return it to the rental place, and get me to work. Whee!
So now I'm killing time playing catch up with my emails.
Hostess now has Willy Wonka swag- they've put Johnny Depp on the box and the cupcakes have purple frosting and purple inner goo! What can I say, my inner child is amused. Hell, my outer child is amused. :p
So, the trip to SoCal, AZ, and Vegas went great. We stopped by Downtown Disney and gawked at all the cool villian stuff I MUST own someday. Like the $150 Maleficent and Evil Queen statues.... *drool*
Then we picked up the multitudinous ratties in California City, dropped some off in Bullhead City only to aquire more, then off to Prescott to deliver the final sum. Crashed there overnight, played with their adorable two month old puppy- australian shepherd/doxie mix. So cute! Then it was off to Vegas, with one brief stop by a very impolite police officer who gave us a speeding ticket but admitted to his inability to actually clock our speed. (Not to mention we were only going 75mph by the time he caught up with us from being on the OTHER side of the freeway.... Asshole...)
Drove the length of the Strip so Dianne could see it all, then we wandered around Excaliber, where they had really cool poster and greeting card artwork in one of the shops that I couldn't resist picking one up, and the first person I thought of to give it to was darkmoon. LOL Feel special.
Then through Luxor, back to Excaliber, back to Luxor. By this time we'd killed more time than we'd realised, so we headed over to the Hyatt where they have the whole "Star Trek Experience" thing. It was late, so we'd missed all the shows/museum tour, but the gift shop was still fun. My only bitch- not enough Q stuff. I mean, one postcard with a pic of him from the first episode, and one boxed set of four VHS episodes he was in called the "best of Q". I expected better. The lady did offer the small comfort that they usually do get more stuff in, but as soon as they get it, it sells out. I said that's usually the sign to get more in. But yeah, that would be logical. Far be it for any corporation the size of the Star Trek domain to do anything as reasonable as that. LOL
We ate at Quark's Bar. The food was decent, but a bit overpriced IMHO. But the drinks..... Ah, those were totally worth it. :) Yummy!
Then we wandered over to Treasure Island and caught the last show "Sirens". OMG, it sucked so bad. :( Now, keep in mind, this is a huge free show done outside of the Treasure Island Hotel, involving two pirate ships and lots of explosions. The version of the show that JustNate and I had seen last yearish was good. Cheesy as all hell, bad jokes and pirate-speak, but still FUN. A good ole swashbuckling adventure on the high seas, and appropriate for people of all ages. Which is important, after all, since half the audience has children in tow and anyone wandering by can see the show. *sigh* So this one is the Sirens calling a pirate ship to its doom, makes the Sirens the victors and not the antagonists, and adds in a lot of fairly tasteless hip-hop. Not to mention most of the Sirens aren't wearing enough of anything to mention. They look like Vegas showgirls. The kind you need to be over 18 to view and have no business gyrating their hips at 8 year old children on the prommenade while making barely masked lewd innuendo to the pirates. Yeah, NOT a family show. Not that I mind shows that aren't family, BUT. If you're going to make it free and put it on the street, it should at least have the fact that there are children present in mind... And if people wanted a burlesque show, they'd have paid money for tickets to a GOOD one... JMHO.
Anyhoo, then we drove like beasts and got back just in time to unload the car, return it to the rental place, and get me to work. Whee!
So now I'm killing time playing catch up with my emails.