Parking is free and available everywhere. It is much less difficult to move around to any hotel on the strip using the easily accessible Interstate 15 than it is to park at Chinook Mall here in Calgary.
Money spent on gambling (in US dollars )- 22
The slot machines appear as soon as you get off the plane. They are about 25 feet from the gate. There are huge lines of them while you are waiting for your luggage (pictured below).
They're everywhere. Here is a line of
them in the baggage claim area at
McCarran International Airport.
Yearly average rainfall in Las Vegas (in inches) - 5
Amount of two day rainfall on November 27 and 28, 2008 (in inches) - .75
Our hosts (and probably most citizens of Las Vegas) were shocked at the amount of rain that fell during that two day period. Both days set records for daily rainfall according to Las Vegas meteorologists. Nearly 20% of the total yearly rainfall fell during that 48 hours period. The last time it rained before this? According to our hosts, the last drops fell in February 2008. In the picture below, you can see the flash flood the water created in the road. Apparently because it is so dry, Las Vegas lacks a sewer system that can handle this much water in this short a period of time.
Amount of turkey the MGM Grand Hotel prepared for Thanksgiving (in pounds) - 2000
All restaurants seem to have a Thankgiving menu nicely
priced that had everything you could ever want to eat for
Thankgiving.
Number of attractions that we went to see that closed mere seconds before we arrived - 2
The Star Trek Exhibit's former home. It ran for 11
years and just closed this past September. Damn!
The Titanic Exhibit was still advertised as open on cabs and
in magazines we read. It must have closed just days before
we got there. It will re-open in the Luxor hotel around
December 15th. Damn! Damn!
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