The nice thing about Las Vegas is that when you want to go out to dinner, it isn’t a choice between The Olive Garden or Pizza Hut. It’s a choice between a giant pirate ship battle or a big replica of NYC. But we were already in The Palazzo to see Stevie Wonder so we just figured we’d eat there.
we used to think we couldn't get enough waterfalls
The Palazzo isn’t really a replica of Venice, it’s a replica of the storybook Venice, minus the pickpockets and the stench of bilge. Thanks to a mix of lighting technology and paint, it’s always just a little bit before sunset. And this really gets creepy after about ten or twenty minutes.
It always looks like this, all the time, always
To distract you from the Gallifreian time lock, the Palazzo has a canal, yes, an entire canal running the length of the shops and restaurants. Happy singing gondoliers offer rides to tourists and the occasional staff member when things get slow. This part is really nice.
O solo they-o
However it was on our way back from one of these lunches…
See what we did there?
... that we ran into a garden. Or maybe we should say, it ran into us.
Lord of the Rings: All Girl Edition
Very slowly and gracefully, two women on stilts, about eight feet high and covered in leaves, walked out of nowhere and began to pose for our cameras.
Well, not really nowhere
The pair almost immediately attracted a crowd, and rightly so. It’s not every day the trees come to life.
We think her name was Ivy
The tree ladies moved surprisingly quick when they wanted to be somewhere else, and they were obviously having a great deal of fun with their characters. So far, this is high on our list of “most interesting things we’ve had happen to us when all we wanted was a burrito and maybe a beer”.
Foliage in motion
Our CES 2009 coverage just keeps going! How long can we go without sleep before we die? You may find out!
