Saturday, November 20, 2010

Vegas arrival

So we arrived in Vegas at night, found a Diet Coke, cause West jet doesn't serve Coke, got our Hotel room and then promptly hit the streets!

we stayed at the Luxor.

we walked thru the Excaliber, and over to New York New York. Here we saw a statue of Liberty made out of Jelly Beans! Maddie tried to eat it! Bad Maddie!!

over the walkway to the MGM,

and found some drinks. The energy drink is the closest Maddie can come to alcohol, lol We were making a list of Vegas Rules for Maddie and one of them was "watch your drink prices" we paid 9 bucks for a beer only to find ABC stores down the street sell beer for 2.75. But... they can't open it for you, so rule number 2 was "always carry a bottle opener"

we were telling Maddie all the Vegas history as we passed each Hotel, this of course has a shady background being started by Bugsy himself... so we went inside the casino, and I started my new collection... $1 chips from the casinos! I figured that would be a neat keepsake, and cheap! I did buy a 5$ chip from the Flamingo tho' because it had a picture of the Hotel in 1960.... Kewl one of the last standing casinos!
next on the journey was the Bellagio, they have an incredible display that changes every season. These pumpkins were massive, one was 1100 lbs!!!

the new City Center Hotel, the tram goes from the Monte Carlo to the Aria. I love these crooked buildings!

in the Lobby of City Center, I was waiting for this stuff to turn into the liquid terminator!
We headed back to the Hotel after this. Funny we were telling Maddie how there are no clocks or windows in the casino so you have no track of time... and when we got back to our Hotel it was 4AM!! We had NO idea it was that late!!!! I did try to upload pictures when we got to the room, and we did have Internet but I had Computer issues.... so.... no blogging til now! :-( I'll try and catch up!

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