Macau is all about casinos. And casinos. And then there are casinos. A world so far removed from all the recessionary fears we hear about everywhere these days. The casinos were crowded, money was being bet in millions, & towards late evening it seemed like the whole of China was in Macau (we were probably the only two brown-skinned people there). Yes, we did gamble, but I won't get into the painful details of how we quadrupled our money on day 1 & then watched it all evaporate on day 2 into the hands of a sympathetic but lousy dealer. Then I vowed to settle the score with him & lost some more. If only we had some more time there....!
"The Venetian" was surreal. Really. Re-creating Venice on a Chinese-Portugese island can be neither easy nor inexpensive. It reminded me of the movie "The Truman Show". It was amusing how our gondola-driver (who insisted on singing an Italian love song for us on the canal); looked Asian but spoke with an Italian accent; and told us made-up folk-lore about how true lovers always kiss under the 'bridge of reality'. It was romantic, but in a really really cheesy kind of way! :)
9 comments:
..hum..so u r having a ball of time..great :)
The baby's already learning how to gamble, eh? :-)
Macau is supposed to be bigger than Vegas, isn;t it?
Fighter Jet,
Yes, would've probably been more fun if we had won some at the casino! :)
Sneha,
I hope he/she was sleeping while we were at the casino!! :))
Parth,
Yeah, they say the Macau casinos gross more than the Vegas ones.
casinos are like black holes man. they just suck you in and refuse to let go. the design of a casino is driven by psychologists....eg. right from the color of the carpet, to the music in the background, to the slot machine placements and lack of clock inside a casino.
moving on....seems like u had a blast.
Satyajit,
That's so true! it's fun when you do it on a weekend or a holiday; but i can so relate to people getting sucked into it...they make it so addictive!
Haha...this post reminded me of our trip to Vegas - it was like an alternate reality. Especially the Venetian :)
Clickable,
Wasn't it bizzare & unreal?
you go girl!!!!!! i havent seen anyone having as much fun while pregnant ;DDDD
continue to have a good time :)
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