We arrived at our hotel about 4pm after a long and very sweaty drive from Coachella, ran up to our rooms to shower and headed straight back out. Of course the first thing we did was go to the nearest shop and grab ourselves a beer, because in Vegas you can wander round and drink on the street. Of course you can, it's Vegas. The same as you can smoke inside - a concept I will never quite get my head around, weird. But anyway, beer in hand, we took a wander all the way down the strip taking in all the sights there were to see, and there were a lot!
Venice, Paris, Egypt, New York - all in this one city, it's pretty impressive actually, the effort that has been put in the make the different areas look like the cities that they are representing. The buildings around Venice really are incredible. We stopped off at New York New York and went on the rollercoaster at the top of the building which was pretty damn fun. We then went to one of the bigger hotels for the biggest frickin buffet I have ever seen, stuffed our faces full of food and then wandered about some more. There is so much to see you could spend hours just sauntering about the strip, taking photos of anything and everything. We stopped off at the Bellagio to watch the fountain show which was pretty cool. It was shorter than I expected, but it's still rather impressive how the music and the water all blends together. We ended up losing the others, so Danny and I called it a night ready for what we anticipated to be an early start to a busy day come the morning, and we were not wrong.
We headed out at 9am and bought ourselves a day pass for the Deuce bus which heads up and down the strip all day, 24 hours and stops absolutely everywhere! Yes it takes what feels like forever, but it is 10 times quicker than walking. So we decided to go all the way to the end of the line at Fremont Street and work our way back down. An excellent plan if I do say so myself. We went to a highly recommended place called EAT for the most delicious sandwiches, we had our photograph taken with a million dollars, and possibly the most cool thing of the day - we went to The Golden Nugget and rode a water slide through the centre of a shark tank! Personal highlight of the trip I must say. We then headed to the outlet stores, I anticipated my money evaporating at this point, but I actually did not buy one single thing. Yay to me and my willpower. Danny treated himself in the Vans shop to a new hat and some shoes, and even treated me to some new shoes as well. Isn't he a cutie!
We didn't want to waste too much time shopping (that's right Mum I said waste time shopping!) so we headed straight to the Stratosphere which is this huge building with 3 theme park rides on top of it. Unfortunately the one that dangled you over the side of the 921ft building and span you round was shut due to high winds, but we thoroughly ended the other two rides. The XScream was a sort of rollercoaster that shot you out and dangled you head first over the side of the building, slightly terrifying but still fun. The Big Shot is classed as the worlds highest amusement ride as the 160ft tower is built on top of the 921ft building itself. This one was by far my favourite ride ever I think, possibly second to Air at Alton Towers. It shoots you up in the air and gives you a moment of weightlessness before pulling you back down to the ground. If only it repeated it a couple more times, as it was over before I really had the chance to enjoy it.
Despite the fact that it doesn't seem like that much, those few things had taken up six hours of the day, so we headed back to meet the others for a spot of gambling at the casino next to our hotel. I have never gambled before and don't really like the idea of throwing away my money, but i put 20 bucks down at the $1 roulette table and it was actually surprisingly fun. I doubled my money in the first couple of goes but just kept playing until the initial 20 i put down was gone. I had fun, I enjoyed myself but I'm definitely not the kind of person that would fritter away money on the off chance that I might win some more.
So after watching the boys play Blackjack (a much more confusing game than Roulette) Danny and I headed off the see Cirque Du Soleil KA at the MGM Grande. My God was it impressive. The way that some of those acrobats move, and the fireworks and explosions and the general set - it was like nothing I've ever seen before on stage. There was supposed to be some kind of storyline behind the show but neither Danny or I could quite fathom that out. After the show we hopped straight on the bus to try and watch the last light show of the night at Fremont Street, but it was just too busy and unfortunately we missed it and had to make the long slow busy journey all the way back to our hotel. And that is that. Vegas is over. In the morning we will be making the extremely long and tedious trip back to Canada. Here's hoping I get my second year visa and we have time to do another road trip around the US, Vegas still has a lot more to offer us.
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