Vegas

On arrival in Las Vegas I am afraid we went to sleep at about 6:30pm in the evening................

Light weights aren't we? Well we had been awake for 35 hours after driving back to Miami through the night to catch our plane to Vegas at 7:30am. We said lets just close our eyes for  half an hour and then we'll decided what to do, well that half an hour turned out to be 14 hours, so at 8:30am the next day we woke up and had breakfast. 

It's a very superficial but glitzy city. About a 2 mile stretch along Las Vegas Boulevard from the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign to the Wynn Encore, which incidentally has a golf course in its back yard, after that it goes down hill. It probably sounds really bad but imagine Blackpool and 'Kiss Me Quick' hats neither would have been out of place if plonked in Vegas. 

Can you guess which hotel this is?

We only bet about $20 in total all the time we were there and lost all of it. I won more in Australia!

After my critique above I do have to say that all the big resort casinos have interesting attractions to attract you in including fountain displays outside the Bellagio, volcano eruptions at the Mirage and the Venician with its singing gondolas. All of them have exclusive shops like Louis Vitton, Cartier, Henry Winston (crazily prices diamonds and such). Sarah looked, only! We took in the Michael Jackosn One, Cirque du Soliel show at Mandalay Bay which was excellent. I counted 5 Cirque du Soliel shows permenantly playing in Las Vegas. Donny and Marie Osmund also had a show rated the best for 3 years in a row, not sure who did the rating though. Didn't fancy that one even though Crazy Horses by the Osmonds was the first single I can remember buying as a kid. 

Ciaran we took this picture for you but it's only a side on view as the character wanted $5 to have his picture taken. We also passed Batman, Spider-Man (with a beer belly), a Transformer, a man and woman with very little on, Homer Simpson, the singing Cowboy in his underpants (we last saw him in New York a few years ago), Elmo gambling, Mini Mouse and Elsa (sorry girls no photo didn't have the phone with us a the time). 

Olaf must be magic because he didn't melt in the heat.