Holidays in Vegas

When I was in Las Vegas a couple weeks back, I stumbled on some kind of holiday festival in the plaza in font of the Venetian Hotel.  It was a procession and something akin to a theatrical dance performance involving elaborately costumed actors.  Here are a couple fo closeups of two of them.  The first was actually on stilts, and as you can probably tell, dressed as a tree.  The woman below wore a mask that caused her face to change as she bowed to the crowd.  I'll probably post some more pictures from the event, but I'm still a bit uncertain if I'm going to run into issues with Blogger, so just these two for now.