Not a lot to write about today as we yet again, stayed in. Though I’m now past my recommended quarantine time, Kevin wasn’t feeling too great and was very tired.
We started the day doing a covid test. Since I’m feeling pretty much back to “normal” I thought I would test negative but that wasn’t the case.
I did get up and dressed again as I am so sick of lying in bed (& also sitting on the couch).
Later in the afternoon Kevin & I watched some YouTube
before watching, which pretty good.
Hopefully tomorrow (for our second last day in Vegas) we’ll be able to venture out and see some of the sights. Then I’ve basically decided that it’s Holiday Take 2 on Saturday when we fly to Orlando.
As we were heading to bed I got to facetime with Christy and the pups. Christy was about to start packing as it’s almost time for her to fly over and join us.
Today I didn’t wake up until 8am – which is unheard of for me – but I guess our sleep has been all over the place. Thankfully today was just a normal fibo. morning and I felt much more like my normal self.
The morning was spent working on yesterdays blog post and catching up on emails, etc. Kevin was still pretty under the weather and slept much of the morning. Christy facetimed with me just after 12pm – it’s always nice to see to pups and have a catch up with Christy.
Finally Kevin was awake so I was able to have my shower and get dressed. I even put on makeup today as we’re supposed to be going out tonight.
Lunch today with a microwaved sweet potato with some vegan queso sauce. It was decent, though not too pretty.
We watched a little youtube while having lunch and then Kevin went to have another sleep, while I actually did some tidying up – first time I’ve really felt motivated to do that. I also finished unpacking.
Around 4pm we had another instacart delivery – this time from Natural Grocers. This came in a big cardboard box instead of plastic bags, which was much better. Hopefully this will keep us going until we can get to some shops ourselves.
Shortly before 6pm we got ready for our night out. My “isolation” ends tomorrow, and Kevin’s the day after but with over AU$400 spent on tickets to see Mad Apple, we were not going to miss out. But we would just go to the show (not out for dinner as planned) and would wear our masks. Before leaving Kevin took this rather arty photo of my outfit.
We caught an uber around to New York New York and headed straight round to the theatre.
I thought it was great they had a bar set up as part of the set before the show, to create that New York vibe. I got some water and Kevin grabbed a water and coke, before making our way to our seats.
The show was different but really good – it was like little tastes of New York including some more traditional cirque acts with a magic act, comedian, dancing. I feel they did a good job with this show (much better than Run, which we saw on our last visit). It definitely wasn’t like a traditional cirque du soleil show. But I did still see acts I’d not seen before.
After the show we made our way out onto the street and had a short walk along the strip (just 5mins) to get to a CVS (pharmacy).
We pick up some supplies – Kevin was mainly wanting a throat spray and some tylenol (panadol). We marvelled that you could buy 1,000 capsules of tylenol, yet in Australia there is talk making panadol available only by prescription and I believe the biggest amount of any pain med you can buy over the counter is 48.
Trying to find an uber pick spot proved difficult, without having to walk miles through one of the hotels. We ended up crossing over the road, making a quick stop at an ABC store where Kevin picked up a wrap for his dinner, and finally spotted people getting out a cab, so grabbed that instead.
It was nice getting to drive along the strip at night and see some of the hotels. I don’t remember the Eiffel Tower being coloured red, white and blue before.
I just love staying here at the Wyndham Desert Blue. You get dropped off and pick up right outside the entrance, no crowds, no smoke or noise to deal with. A quick trip up the lift and you are in your room. It was 9.30pm by now so I was definitely ready for dinner. I had one of my Amy’s meals, which though doesn’t look best, sure did taste good. This was one I always loved the vegetarian version of, so was excited to see there is now a plant based one.
We watched some YouTube and then Kevin had a bath while I headed to bed to read.
I awoke this morning to finding myself pretty much to my normal fibro way. But poor Kevin was feeling worse and hadn’t slept very well. Sadly he had to cancel his AWS sessions for the day.
Kevin was kind enough to go downstairs to collect our Instacart order when it arrived, even though he was feeling worse than I was. I filmed what we got to share in the vlog. It was such an odd assortment and will really only keep up going a day or two. And I’m sure I ordered a bunch of bananas … must have been a bunch of one ??
I was pleased to find my appetite had returned to normal and I was able to enjoy some pita bread with vegan baby bell for breakfast. And while the baby bell looked like plastic it actually tasted very close to the dairy version.
Earlier I had put on some washing – not a lot as I’ve been living in one of my nighties. We get a good amount of sunshine in the window here so that was a great spot to dry the things I didn’t put in the dryer. It was so nice to just get dressed in proper clothes today, even though I wasn’t going anywhere.
Kevin slept for much of day. I alternated between sitting on the couch in the loungeroom and sitting in bed. I managed to edit the covid vlog – though realized the next day I totally forgot to review it before uploading it to YouTube. No big deal, but hope there was nothing major that should have been edited further.
Kevin requested the soup I’d bought for lunch today so I had my salad, which was nice – but an awful lot of spinach (definitely got my greens in today :-)).
I’m really enjoying the view from this room. And have spent quite a bit of time looking out, watching cars and the odd person, and all the helicopters going up down the strip (so many at sunset).
The sunset tonight was beautiful – especially with so many chemtrails in the sky.
Kevin wasn’t feeling particularly hungry at dinner so we just shared the sweet potato casserole that I had purchased. It was nice for a change. I didn’t bother with a photo as it did not look very appetizing :-).
We watched some YouTube before Kevin went back to sleep around 8.30pm. I then read for a couple of hours. Today definitely felt more of a fibro day for me – whether it was just a fibro flare from having covid or a normal fibro day I don’t know but I felt much more like myself on a not so great (fibro) day.
While I’ve been feeling just that bit better each day, it has been a much slower process than I’d expected. Poor Kevin is still experiencing bad body pain and fatigue. Thankfully there was no problem to get a late check out. US$40 allowed us to stay until 4pm, when our room at the Wyndham Desert Blue would be available. Kevin is still sleeping a lot, so I spent most of the day reading, and even on my laptop . Still not much of an appetite – just 1/2 bagel for breakfast, then nothing else beside a banana.
The pups were getting groomed today so Christy facetimed with us when they were done. They look great. Much better than last time when they were clipped super short. Christy showed a photograph of what they normally look like post clip, which helped the groomer I’m sure.
About 3.30pm we started to pack up. It was pretty easy as we never fully unpacked in the first place (since I first felt unwell on our first day here). I must say it’s not been a fun time in Vegas so far…… So glad this was not our first visit.
Sunset from Rio All Suites
We headed downstairs and opted to get a taxi instead of trekking over to where the uber pick up was. I knew the two places were close but I didn’t realize quite how close – in fact the Rio convention center carpark is right opposite the entrance to the Wyndham Desert Blue. Still, with our luggage and being sick a taxi was the best choice.
So happy to be back here again (such a shame we got mucked around with our first booking here). We love how nice and quiet it is, with no casino and no smoke, and absolutely NO LINE to check in !!
We got checked in and headed up to our room. We have a 2 bed presidential and it’s just lovely.
We are on the opposite side to our last stay and look over at Rio :-).
Looking towards the Rio All Suites where we were just stayingYou can see the strip in the other directionThe pool is still open and there are even people swimming (though it’s 10C)
Kevin was feeling pretty bad again so lay down while I tried to do some unpacking. I didn’t get too far before we realized we should get some groceries ordered via instacart. Of course, that took way longer than expected as I’m not familiar with all the products AND there are so many vegan options. In the end I put together a rather odd order, but it took so long we decided to make the delivery for in the morning. This meant we still had to get in something for dinner. We decided on Chef Kenny’s Vegan again. Neither of us were hungry but I felt we should be trying to eat. I ordered a couple of appetizers to share. Fried dumplings, Edamame (which we didn’t end up eating) and lettuce wraps (which turned out to be what we’d call san choy bau). The dumplings were nice and the lettuce wraps perfect – lovely and fresh and light. I’d started dealing with an upset tummy so was hoping some proper food would help settle it down.
We watched some youtube in bed and I got some more unpacking done. Hopefully Kevin will feel a lot better in the morning so he can attend the AWS conference that we are here for…. (Spoiler – he felt worse).
