Claudia treated me to the show at the Venetian. I’ve heard comments – while dealing – about the show, most of them were that it was OK, very few ever said it was GREATish, a few said it was bad. I think you have to have a certain sense of humor or be seriously missing an important part of your brain to think it’s good. It was passably funny at times. We went on a Monday and the place really was almost sold out. They must have something going for them that I don’t know about.

The band was great.

I have no idea how these shows even run with the expenses that are linked to them. All of these productions, even without a lot of fanfare, still cost bucks…some of them big bucks. I don’t want to to give the show away but they must kill 30 trees for each show with the paper they flood over the crowd at the end. Do these guys know I’m claustrophobic? Almost scary!

We were in the 5th row and in the splash zone. I kept my plastic serape on during the whole show. I swear we laughed as hard at the self pictures we took with the iPhone as we did during the show. A woman in front of us asked if I wanted her to take our pictures. Thanks but no thanks. That would have really spoiled the fun. We both laughed our butts off over this one.

Right at the end of the show, I tried to get a picture of some of the crazy light show that was going on when the band was on the wall behind the blue guys. I got tagged. Claudia was chuckling over the fact that I got caught. Oh well! All the usher/security did was wave their flashlight or hand at me. I put the phone away but here’s what they looked like as they played some strange contraption of plastic pipes that they stepped into and carried around with them.

The show lasted almost two hours. I did have a great time. No, I didn’t bring the plastic serape home as a souvenir and we never did get ‘splashed.’ We went out for food and the whole evening was a nice break for me. Claudia will be home in New York by Monday night. Hopefully she’ll be out the Series. Thanks again, Claudia.

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One thing that truly baffles me. How did that Blue Man get all those marshmallows in his mouth without choking to death on them or gagging?