Vegas 3 - Copperfield

We didn't wake until 2PM on our last day, courtesy of the black-out curtains in our hotel room. We headed over the highway to the most horrendous and ridiculous hotel on The Strip, namely Excalibur, and caught the monorail down to the Luxor, the infamous, yet impractical, pyramidal hotel.
 

Excalibur

Luxor

There was a Bodies Exhibition by the controversial Gunther von Hagen, which was the main purpose of this adventure, and was extremely interesting to see what we look like without skin (Although all the subjects were male, apart from some of the parts in the reproduction room).

The thin sections of body did somewhat resemble panchetta, and I was grateful for the lack of human flesh smell. Seeing all of the arteries and veins of the heart illuminated in UV light was definitely a highlight for me and I would recommend this exhibition to everyone. I imagine it'll return Down Under at some point in the future.


Whilst at the Luxor Flood and I purchased tickets to the David Copperfield show that evening. Robert and Clint were both knackered and listening to their bodies. By this time it was dark, and we returned to the hotel to change before our 7pm show. I picked up some pretzel sticks on the way, which turned out to be the most disgusting thing I've eaten in a while, and not really anything like the pretzels I'd had in New York. I managed to force a couple down before binning the rest.

The theatre was like nothing I've been in before. It was one of those typical American ones though, where you sit at a table or booth and have drinks and food brought to you during the show. Below are some pictures of where we sat, as photography wasn't permitted during the show.

Then it was lights off and four rather fabulous looked men paraded onto the stage with a big white box, which they opened and rotated to assure us it was empty... The box was then closed up, there was a small puff of smoke, and then the box was opened to reveal Copperfield on a motorbike! Very impressive stuff indeed.

We were requested to email our home town to Copperfield, which placed us on a map of the world... Although, much to Flood an my dismay, Brisbane never illuminated, but Cairns did... Later in the show Copperfield used our email addresses to send us a picture of a prediction of the future. Which was completely accurate. I was surprised at how much Copperfield embraced audience participation, and despite the fact we were in row 3, there were a fair few occasions we had to turn around to see what illusion he was performing. There was a moment when the lady beside Flood was called up on stage by chance (Or bad luck, if you'd prefer), and I was glad to have dodged that bullet by a sliver! More illusions, balloon inside of a balloon popping "by the power of the mind", people transporting across the room in a matter of seconds, and then it was time for more frisbee throwing into the audience to randomly select members of the crowd.

And all of a sudden a frisbee landed at my feet. Copperfield had requested a male, thus the closest male to the disc was Flood!! Terrified, yet determined, he picked up his "lucky" disc and walked up onto the stage, where he and two other randomly selected crowd members were asked personal questions, such as what colour are your boxers, and what day is your birthday. Flood, however, lucked out entirely with his overly-personal question, which probed into his sex life, and in particular his length of abstinence!! But he held his head high and seemed unphased by this query. Copperfield then recorded these three pieces of information on a large easel on the stage and then lowered down a thrice locked clear box which had been suspended above the stage for the show's duration. Popping the locks, he removed a piece of paper which had the exact same information as that which he had written on the stage's easel. A crazy coincidence or phenomenal master of illusion? There was no time to try and figure out the seemingly impossible, as he had now pressed onto the next trick, which involved Flood on his knees, hugging a wide, short vertical metal pillar, beside another member of the audience whom was doing the same thing. Weird but then there was a flash of light and suddenly a car appeared on top of the poles, seemingly out of nowhere!!

Copperfield encored with this final trick Copperfield Duck, and from this video it looks like he's been doing it for quite a while!! It is impressive though, so you've got to give him that! 

After the show we were on quite a high!! And returned back to the hotel to wake up the Grandpappy's from their nappy-poos with our exciting tales of magic and illusion! Then we jumped on their respective beds and trundles until they were up an ready to get wild for one last time in Vegas. 

We had a horrible feed of greasy pizza and were served beers by the least hospitable human alive. So we hopped in the car and to the Las Vegas sign, before heading back up The Strip to the Venetian.

I am told we then went to The Palms and Old Vegas... But I was passed out in the back seat and unwakable... So we returned home for our earliest and final night of Vegas.