Today we went shopping – Tobey’s least favorite thing to do! He was a good sport and humored me by going into three stores and helped me find a dress. It didn’t take too long – less than an hour – and I rewarded him by treating him to lunch at the Earl of Sandwich at Planet Hollywood. We actually shared a sandwich and had plenty to eat.
We spent some time looking at different casinos and working our way north along the Strip. One of the gondoliers at The Venetian was singing to his guests on the gondola. Fun to see and hear. 
We took a break back at our hotel before heading back to Fremont Street for the night. We had decided to eat at Bomb Tacos not far from Fremont Street. They advertised a special of five tacos for $12 on Yelp, but when we arrived, only one of the tacos we wanted to try were on their special. The staff there was really great, however, and offered us a discount on our order. We had two rock shrimp tacos, a potato taco, fish tacos, and a carne asada taco. They were all yummy and we were happy campers. To top off their awesome service, they brought us a complimentary dessert – delicious vanilla ice cream and warm churros! We were stuffed and smiling as we left the restaurant!
We checked out some of the sights along our way back to Fremont Street. At Container Park there was an amazing, to scale, moving sculpture of a praying mantis with lights and spouting fire!
It was built by aerospace engineer Kirk Jellum to be 150 times the size of a real Mantis, and burns about 50 gallons of propane each night. Flames can reach six stories high. 
Jellum and a team of 20 built The Mantis just outside Zion National Park in 2010. Five hundred hours of design work and more than 3,000 labor hours went into its construction.
This is a link to the mantis spouting!https://youtu.be/z8qt7PU24Ng
The Mantis actually drives! On two occasions it drove to and appeared in the annual “Burning Man” summer festival held in the Black Rock Desert of Norther Nevada – to this day it is still a street legal kinetic mobile fire art vehicle.
There were several other interesting art sculpture pieces at Container Park. Boys will be boys and Tobey just couldn’t resist taking a peek!
Our funny sign for the day:
We had fun seeing the sights and sounds along Fremont Street once again. Most of the street is decorated for Halloween and the bands all are joining in the fun by dressing up in costumes. We listened to two sets of music by Alter Igor, a local rock band.
They were really good and had the crowd dancing and singing along to their 70s/80s rock music. Tobey said we should make this an annual trip!
It was close to midnight before we got back to the hotel. Tomorrow we pack and head back to Colorado.
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