Sadly, it’s our last day in Las Vegas today. We spent our last evening at the Stratosphere
tower before seeing Penn and Teller
at the Rio.
The Stratosphere is apparently the 5th tallest structure in the US and the only skyscraper I know of with fairground rides on top of it. You take the elevator to level 109 and after walking through the gift shop (obviously, this is America), you take another elevator up to the roof where the rides are.
The ride that chucks you over the edge of the tower looked a bit much for me, but the bit of your brain that stops normal people from chucking themselves over the edge of the 5th tallest structure in America is obviously missing from Jen, so as she queued up for her first go I took some photos from the observation deck. She enjoyed it so much she even went up for a second go.
We finished the night by going to see magicians Penn and Teller. Normally I can’t stand watching magic shows (something to do with magicians being smug and delighting in keeping secrets from you). Penn and Teller, as usual though were brilliantly funny and clever, and most importantly they understand that how a trick is done is often much more impressive than the resulting trick, so they don’t mind showing you how most of them are done!
We also got to meet them afterwards for photos and signings, and yes, Teller does talk and he’s a nice guy too, which is a bonus.