Day 5 Wednesday July 2nd: Off to the museum! Since it was another really hot day of 45 degrees, Miss Hannaford decided that we would go and see a local museum that was on the bus route we have caught every day. The museum was called the Mob Museum. The mob were different families engaged in illegal activities all over America but they were very important in the creation of the city of Las Vegas. The museum building used to be a post office and a court house where the mobsters were put on trial. The museum was very interesting to visit and it was in a part of Las Vegas Miss Hannaford had never visited before.
I didn’t like the museum very much- it was full of information about serious crimes and how people were hurt by the crimes of the mobsters but the airconditioning was very nice as well as the Frank Sinatra music that was playing in the foyer and front steps of the building.
We then caught the bus back to the Treasure Island Hotel so Miss Hannaford could find the theatre for Cirque du Soleil Mystere. Mystere is the oldest Cirque show in Las Vegas- it opened in 1993! Miss Hannaford’s favourite part is the Taiko drumming at the beginning and the end of the show! Taiko drumming is a traditional Japanese art form that uses all sizes of drum from the small shime-daiko all the way up to the great drum!
Here is a rehearsal of the Taiko drumming from the end of the show! The drummers are coming up on a special stage that goes up and down and the great drum- Odaiko comes down on wires from the roof of the theatre and lands on the stage! It is very exciting to watch!
here is a trailer of the Mystere show itself!
Day 6: Thursday July 3rd
Miss Hannaford has really been looking forward to today. One of her favourite TV series is CSI which stands for Crime Scene Investigation. Watch she likes about the tv show is how science is used to solve crimes. Something that is new in Las Vegas is an attraction called CSI: The Experience. It is an interactive experience where you start looking for clues at a fake crime scene such as fingerprints and you write your observations down on your field notes. You then take the clues to the lab where you compare DNA, fingerprints, dental impressions to work out who committed the crime. It was really fun using the real microscopes to look at samples of hair and insects to solve the fake crimes.
The last stage is to submit your findings from the scientific tests to Supervisor Gil Grisom and see if your conclusions are correct. Miss Hannaford got all the questions right and solved all the cases!
That night Miss Hannaford took me to see Cirque du Soleil KA! At the entrance to the theatre is a huge Water Dragon Puppet. His name is Sheng Li and he is a friendly water dragon. His tail goes all the way down the corridor to the doors of the theatre!
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Miss Hannaford and I sat in the front row of the theatre and many times the performers walked, ran, crawled right in front of us! They even had a scene where they used real snow and it fell on me but it melted very quickly.
This is what the theatre looks like behind where we were sitting- the bright light on my face were from the balls of fire shooting out of the big pit in front of us. It was very hot every time the flames shot out of the pit.
Miss Hannaford was able to video some of the flames!
Here is the trailer for Ka
It has been such an exciting week so far- but Miss Hannaford says there is something even more exciting tomorrow!- Lucy