I get so MAD!

October 13th, 2008 at 06:01am Posted by Bill

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We left our room and got back in the car to find a place to get breakfast. It was after 9:00 AM, and we had both been up since before 4:00 with nothing to eat yet. We drove to the Flamingo and had an excellent champagne brunch. We walked to the nearby monorail station and rode it to another casino, then later rode it back. When we got back to the Flamingo, Kathy took a quick pit stop, and I took that opportunity to find the will call counter where show tickets are picked up.

We walked around the casino for a while, gambled a bit, drank a bit, gambled a bit more, then had lunch. When 3:00 rolled around, we walked to Nathan Burton’s Flamingo Showroom to be seated for the show. I wasn’t discreet enough earlier when I had been looking for this theater as we were wandering through the casino, so Kathy had figured out that we were seeing a show here. Of course, the whole time we were waiting in line, she thought we’d have some sort of nosebleed seats. The Flamingo Showroom is pretty intimate, however; there really aren’t any bad seats. I had purchased seats in a booth right at the front of the theater.

Nathan Burton’s show was great. It was funny, without being stupid. His illusions were amazing, without being too over-the-top. His assistants were beautiful, without being slutty or relying on nudity.

Toward the end of the show, he asked who in the audience was here on their honeymoon; there was a smattering of applause. He then asked who was here for a birthday; again, a few people clapped and cheered. He then asked who was here for their anniversary, and as Kathy continued to sink lower into the booth in a futile attempt to blend in with the upholstery, I clapped and cheered loudly. The audience spotlight was turned to shine on us, and Nathan asked, pointing at Kathy, if this was my wife. The audience laughed as he said “Hey, this is Las Vegas, you never know.”

He then asked how many years we’d been married, and I shouted “Twenty!”

The audience applauded, then he asked me what the secret to 20 years of marriage is. I said “Do everything she says!” He then closed the show with one final trick (turning a glass of water into white confetti in front of our eyes. You can see the confetti still in his hair in this photo.) As we were filing out of the theater, other audience members were coming up to us wishing us a happy anniversary. It was a wonderful ending to a perfect day.

I told Kathy that the show was the last surprise I had planned. The rest of the day, and the entire next day, we were free to do anything we wanted to do.

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