Wendy: Two scary words for today -- Seigfried and Roy. Our
arms were still sore from the shots, so we took a day to relax. We had
massages at the local hotel spa (feeling spoiled the whole time), and then went
to a Vegas show. The only problem was that we called last minute, and got
the only 2 seats together for the Seigfried and Roy show, and those seats happen
to be in "the pit", a section within the stage so the stage went all
around us. Sounds cool, huh? In theory it is, since we were pretty
much under the stage, and the elephants and white tigers were lead right past us
onto center stage. We could see the dancers and magic tricks up close,
which was cool too. Even tho' we were up close, it was still hard to
figure out how they did many of the magic tricks....
Why was it scary? Mostly because Seigfried was a freaky looking dude.
He was about 30 years older than you see in pictures, and was covered in pancake
makeup that was an abnormal brown color (emulating a tan?). He kept a big
smile on his face, but up close you could see that he looked very tired, and
perhaps a tad drunk. Little
Andy: OUR LAST DAY OF CLIMBING! Tomorrow we head home to start preparing for the next leg of our trip. We're very sad to stop climbing, but new adventures await....
We spent the day sport climbing at Black Corridor. After all the great climbs we've done during the last two months, these routes we're pretty uninspiring... and it was very, very crowded. Black Corridor is 6 feet wide and 200 feet long, with climbs going up both sides. Imagine 60 people climbing and belaying inside the corridor and you have an idea what it was like! And someone had the genius idea to bring their super-mean-attack-dog-Doberman with them. Not a very good idea. He freaked me out the entire day.
After ten routes, our fingers kill (all the crack climbing at Indian Creek
doesn't prepare your fingertips for sport climbing!) and we're ready to call it
a day. So ends the first leg of our trip.... 10 hours of driving
tomorrow and we'll be home.