The shows were fantastic! I was so excited to see the Lion King. I had never seen it before live. Since I am so familiar with the movie I was able to just enjoy the talk and singing but pay particular attention to the stagecraft. It was incredible. I have nothing but admiration for the folks that dreamed up the sets and the costumes. Fantastic.
I have to say too, that even if you are unfamiliar with Terry Fator, you absolutely have to buy his DVD. You can buy it on Amazon. He is amazing and it was one of the best live shows I have ever seen in my life. Those of you that know me well know that I am an absolute Disney freak. And Fator was better than the Lion King.
Bette Midler was fantastic too. She is an amazing performer and I just can't believe she is about 65 years old. Talk about energy and her voice is still phenomenal. She is sooooo funny.
I played around with my new camera (a nice little Canon Powershot) and got some good shots I think. We stayed at the Bellagio and had a view of the fountains and the Paris hotel across the street. I got a daytime and a night time shot that I am pretty happy with. The conservatory at the hotel was beautiful too. It smelled so fresh and clean and was intricately done in an Asian theme. I got a good shot too of the glass ceilings in the lobby of the hotel. I enjoyed my stay, but the part I found the hardest was the smoke. There is smoking everywhere. We are pretty spoiled here. There was even one of those combination garbage can/ashtrays at the elevators. Even though we were a non-smoking floor I guess it was for the folks puffing in the lift to put out their butts once they got to the non-smokers floor. I had to wash/dry clean everything when we got back. That's ok though. We had a lot of fun.
