We then hit Via Bellagio, the hotel's small but very grand (and very busy) shopping mall. Keeping with the Tuscan theme, it's done up as a Parisian shopping arcade, except everyone's wearing track suits and eating ice cream. After I reminded Somchai that it was my birthday, he bought me a very nice watch, then spent the rest of the morning trying to make up for the spending discrepancy by going crazy with the credit card in the clothes stores. Mixed in a bit of gambling with the shopping, mostly at Somchai's favorite game, the spinning wheel. Nobody ever plays it because it's the most boring game in the casino, and he plays it weirdly by always choosing the number with the longest odds, which of course never comes up. But I wasted an hour on the slots, and made enough money to compensate for his losing spinning wheel strategy.