After breakfast it was into a cab down to the Dream Garage, where I was told that they had sold their Audi R8 :(. The third car today was to be a new Nissan GTR - something that they were pretty excited by, but I just couldn't match "Exotic Supercar" with "Nissan" in my head. Nonetheless, I chose it to take the first drive out of town as it felt most familiar and I wanted to get the feel for driving on the right in something that wasn't too intimidating. I have to admit though, it's a beastie of a car - a real rottweiler with a snarl when you put your foot down. We drove through the city, on to the freeway and out to Lake Mead, where we switched cars and I got into the Lamborghini. This is more your greyhound kind of car. Sleek and beautiful looking and very low and fast on the road - up about 15 horsepower from the Nissan (which is something like 530?), but much more 'supercar' feeling. We drove through the desert park for a bit and then...time for the Ferrari. I think I managed it perfectly in my progression as I definitely saved the best for last. The Ferrari is 570 horsepower, instantly responsive and is so light you feel like you're flying. It was AWESOME! It was so cool to drive on the road and not round and round a track, even if it means that you can't go flat out all the time. I still got to floor all of them several times and see what they could do - yeehah!
When we got back to town, we got a gelato and relaxed by the pool at the Bellagio for a while and then moseyed down the south side of Las Vegas boulevard, checking out Paris and MGM along the way before nipping over to New York New York where, not having had quite enough adrenaline for the day, I rode the roller coaster - on my own, as Brett cannot be persuaded to do that with me. It was a doozy! The kids in front of me thought it was hilarious that I screamed all the way round lol.
After walking back through Aria and a glam up, it was off to Donny and Marie. It was fabulous! Brett was very reluctant to go, but he loved it - a real show spectacular, but in one of the original Vegas show rooms, so you are really up close and personal - it is about the same size as the James Hay I guess. When they did the old numbers I got sucked back in the time vortex to watching it on TV with mum and my sisters - there is no way i could have ever imagined that I would see them up close one day. Marie especially has enormous range, she even did a fantastic job of Nessun Dorma! We have finished our amazing day by watching the Bellagio Fountain from a front spot and now need to get an 'early' night ready for our wake up call at 5:15, to be picked up at 5:50 for our Grand Canyon day - our last day in Vegas.

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Sounds like you are both having an awesome time. Loving reading your blog. Christine xx
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