Denver Duck and the Quest for the Golden Egg

My work week was largely uneventful. I worked overtime on "my Monday", but the next 4 days found me escaping early. Even so, by Tuesday (my Friday), poker (and those who play it) was plucking my last nerve. Every so often it seems that misery visits everyone at the same time. It is during those times that I wonder why people continue to participate in an activity that seems to cause them so much grief. Day after day they sit there and do nothing but complain. It gets old very quickly.

A friend of mine had a heart attack and subsequent triple bypass surgery a little over two weeks ago. Yesterday I took him to his doctor's appointment. He got a total release from the Dr. It is amazing what the medical community can do these days.

After dropping him off back at his place I decided to head to Wynn to play some poker. First things first..........SLOTS. That's where Denver Duck comes in. Denver Duck and the Quest for the Golden Egg is a slot machine. My buddy Benton told me that he had played it a few times while taking a break from the poker tables. Having never seen the machine and given the slightly odd name, I kidded him that he must have been smoking something other than his Camels. It indeed exists and the bonus rounds, if you can get into them, can be pretty lucrative.
As a side note, I started playing the machines again while in Aruba. I figured that playing them outside the country didn't count. Pretty illogical logic, but it's my nightmare and I'll tell it the way I want.

Speaking of nightmares...........
After I finally took a seat in a poker game at Wynn, a player that I regularly deal to at the Palms came over to my table and said that she had an extra ticket to Le Reve and asked me if I would like to go. (Thanks Wat!) Of course I would. Having recently seen Mystere at TI and not having heard stellar reviews of Le Reve I was anxious to compare the two. It has been six months since Wynn LV and Le Reve opened, so I figured that they had worked out the bugs. The two shows really can't be compared to each other. If I had to recommend one or the other I would say go see Mystere. I would, however, suggest that you see both if possible. At $121 a ticket Le Reve isn't cheap, but let's face it $121 doesn't go a long way in Las Vegas these days
(In case you don't know, Le Reve translates to "The Dream". Le Reve was the original name for the entire casino complex until Steve Wynn decided to name his new baby simply Wynn.. Not just Wynn, buy Wynn with a period at the end as if this was the end of his evolution as a casino mogul and visionary.)
The "stage" itself is quite remarkable. At times it is completely submerged in water. Other times seeming dry. The cast is continually flying high through the air and then plunging into the pool of water below. The physical strength and athleticism of the cast (as with Mystere) is beyond belief. About 55 minutes into the show a single bare chested lady appears......... I can't decide if this was simply gratuitous or a natural extention of the hugely strange dream theme. This dream contains both demons and angels....futility and hope. At times this dream turns (homo) erotic as women take turns undressing each other and the guy who is actually having the dream is enticed by the physique of the male specimens.
If you keep the entirety of the Dream theme in mind, Le Reve delivers. I don't think it is intended to make sense. I'm not sure that it CAN make sense. What is reality? What is a dream? What does any dream mean? Does anything really have meaning?
Not a bad way to spend 90 minutes in Las Vegas.