We ate breakfast at Mandalay Bay, mostly so we could ride the tram to get to Mandalay Bay.
Our Las Vegas vehicle count: plane, shuttle bus, hop-on hop-off bus, cab, Uber, monorail, tram, feet. We missed the Duce bus and the rentable bikes. They were in the downtown area, and we only experience that area via the tour bus.
We had some pool time and then rested, and then went to the Horseshoe to play black light minigolf at Twilight Zone mini golf.
Here we looking like Cheshire cats. We had a lot of time to contemplate the murals on the wall depicting scenes from the Twilight Zone and realized neither of us had seen the original series.
It was a slow course. The people in front of us took a long time, so we played every hole twice until the people behind us caught up. They were not playing correctly; each player would hit their ball until they sunk it, and then the next one would go. So then we felt the pressure to hurry through, though the people in front of us didn’t.
As per usual, my score was off the charts, and Matt missed Astronomic Ace by only one point.
We decided to check out the original Twilight Zone series when we get back to Portland.
After that, we ate in the food court at the Horseshoe, which had the same food as at the Luxor, and went to the Flamingo to see Piff the Magic Dragon, a magician Matt discovered through Penn and Teller’s Fool Us, probably not in this episode, but you get the idea. Our seats were all the way in the back (although I pointed out to Matt that every theater we had been in had good seats, even in the back), but when we arrived, the usher asked if we wanted to sit in the front row. We did! See how close we were.
Piff was his curmudgeonly self, and we enjoyed Mr Piffles and Jade Simone, the over-the-top showgirl who brings their combined enthusiasm levels to average. My favorite trick involved an Apple Watch and eventually a jar of peanut butter. Matt enjoyed a trick with a fortune cookie and a fortune that was both unreadable and ~~magic~~ readable. Matt likes how Piff the Magic Dragon makes objects disappear and then turn up in unusual places.
One last picture, and it was time to head back to the hotel. But first we got some fun dessert. Alas, not pictured.