Last night in Vegas

Friday, July 27, 2007

We went to Las Vegas again last night. We drove in about 6:00PM. The traffic was heavier at that time, but we wanted to have dinner, then walk around after the sun went down.
Murtle and Taco stayed home again. Poor kids! Today I think we will take them out on the town. Murtle wants to see the sights. Taco is just “steer” crazy sitting in the camper.

Dinner was fabulous last night. We decided to splurge a tad. We were going to eat at one of the restaurants that had an outside café, but couldn’t find just the right one. We walked through a few of the hotels thinking that we would just settle for a nice place, but they seemed crowded and some of the items of the menu we couldn’t read (if I can’t identify what is in the food, I don’t want to chance it having seafood) so we didn’t stop.

On our search for a nice place to eat, we wandered into a shopping area that boasted “fine shops and restaurants”. It was a whole Mall in itself. (Bet it was as large as the Mall of New Hampshire used to be!) We walked and walked until we came to an open area. It was like we walked through to the back of the building. As we continued we saw five or six different places to eat. It was lovely! We chose an Italian restaurant (you know how much we like the Italian Oasis in Littleton, NH!)

We sat “outside” the main building. The atmosphere was wonderful, the sights were “interesting” (remember, we were in Las Vegas). The wait staff was dressed to the hilt! Very attentive! People were milling all around. I noticed the beautiful sky! Bright blue with just a few puffy clouds! (hehe) I said to Brad, “Look at the beautiful sky!” He looked up and, “Oh, my goodness!” It really looked like we were outside! (Illusions are terrific!) There was a dome over us. The clouds even moved!

After dinner we walked around the rest of the “mall”. On the other side there was an actual rain storm. The sky got gray, the sun disappeared and it rained over the pond! (How fascinating! Glad we ducked into a shop before we got wet!)

Back out on the strip again we went. Hot, oh, so hot! We must have walked another 5 miles tonight. We started in the same place (the Forum Shops) and headed the opposite direction from last night. We went by the Flamingo, the New York, Caesar’s Palace, the MGM, the Bellagio, and many others. We did get a chance to see the water show at the Bellagio. It was choreographed to music. The colors on the hotel changed to a lush purple (which was the background for the show). The water danced, spouted, sprayed, and splashed! (I am with you, Sydney, the water is the best part). The show must have lasted about 10 minutes.

We ventured into a few of the casinos. Walked in, looked around, looked at each other and said, “No, not really for us!” When we went into Caesar’s Palace, we decided to try our luck. (Or lack of luck, no we are not coming home with a new camper!) We put our “bucks” into the machines, pulled the levers and DIDN’T WIN a thing! Both of us were Big Losers with Big L’s on our foreheads!

Again, we walked back into the MGM casino, looked at each other and just said, “No!” (We are such big time spenders! Neither one of us wants to turn out like Murtle!)

Back out on the strip again. Oh, the sights we saw. Ladies, and gents everywhere. Some of them were dressed to a tee. Short skirts, makeup, heels! (I have no idea how they could walk up and down the streets in such high, high heels.) Then we saw a lot of people just like us in shorts and tee shirts. A lot of people bumped into me. I don’t understand why. I just kept stopping for a photo opportunity and someone would run right into me. (Maybe I should have stopped, looked, and waved!)

We kept seeing a truck drive by with a huge billboard on the side. For the life of me, I could not get a picture of the advertisement on the side. We stood around for about ten minutes waiting for it to go by, but being so dark and the lights so bright, I just couldn’t get the shot I wanted. (You’ll have to use your imagination as to what was on the side of the billboard!)

As we were standing there, waiting for the truck to go by, the temperature was 95 degrees at 10:45. The sweat was just running down my whole body. Both of us remembered to drink plenty of water, and we had more at dinner. When we got back to the truck around 10:55 we were both thirsty and consumed almost a whole bottle of water each.

The drive out of the city was easy again. (We are just party poopers and if we had stayed till after 3, the traffic would have been horrific.) We missed Britney Spears. She was at the Wynn (we had been there the night before). Apparently there was an altercation and she was on the news this morning. Except for that, nothing out of the ordinary happened. (As ordinary as can be for Las Vegas! That is.)

We slept in this morning and will take Murtle and Taco out for a drive later. We need to pick up a few supplies before we head for the Grand Canyon area tomorrow.