Comfort Inn & Suites Las Vegas

... hotel Circus Circus, although I reckon if you were able to turn off the main electricity supply to Vegas you could probably save the world!

We were really impressed with the value for money we got with our hotel. For $18 per night we made ourselves at home in our huge room with kingsize bed, TV, glamorous bathroom with shiny marble floor and wall length mirror. The view from the large windows was great and looked out over the strip below us. Our hotel is ...

... attack, what with being on the wrong side of the road adn the car and everything!

Anyway, made it to Vegas. I'm not sure how Matt managed the drive because he'd only had about 40 minutes' sleep on the plane. We booked into the Sahara which is soooooooooo old and tired and cheesy, but in a good way :) They had a heap of photos up on the walls showing people ...

... the Bellagio (managed to see the fountains!). Walking outside was SOOOO HOT (it is the desert after all!) and there was no chance of us hanging around in the sun for very long. This took a while and there is a lot of walking in Vegas, but mostly indoors in air-conditioned walkways! Dinner time now with our second and final visit to the eating marathon (some people really do get good value for money!). This night was spent mostly in Mandalay Bay, Luxor and Excalibur ...

... for the clothing on offer, but for the Mexican salesgirl :)

We all met at the food court and were off to Fry's, a giant electronics store. Kind of bizarre, as they sold cases of their own brand of bottled water, and even had a coffee shop/cafe inside. In a way, it's not that great of a place for a bunch of guys to visit, because we ended up staying there for FAR too long. But this wasn't a bad thing ...

... all mixed up with the flabby, the obese and the paraletic (spelling?) Sue and couldn't get over the amount of people swerving their way down the strip with humongous alcoholic drinks in hand and gasped a few times as the lurched their way across the 16 lane strip without the crossing sign in their favour. While there are shops for the rich and famous there are also many more affordable ways to satisfy that need to purchase. There are souvenir shops full of every type of ...

... and on my second spin I hit the bonus game and win over 300 credits! That brought my losing monies up to $7.50. I played a couple more, and when I got down to $7.02 I cashed out and gave Marc one of my winning dollars and I took the other single. And we wasted them on some other machines. So we wound up even at the Bellagio. I think we were down one dollar at Caesars/Mirage, so we only lost $1 today. Haha. Another day of low rollers.

... years I suppose, things change. The following may make no sense to some of you so my apologies and please just bear with me while I briefly update the Els-&-Philip-possee: "Titti-fa-la" Bar is no longer within the Casino!!! Remember where we all met for drinks at night before we hit The Strip?? The Hotel bar is now some pink neon and black cocktail establishment. The lobby was huge and expansive wasn't it? Not any more. A huge escalator now dominates it up to another level where ...

... a DJ played. Normally I am up for a bit of fun, but compared to those kids I kinda felt a little old. So opted for a little lay down (yep I know the age thing again!!!). Tonight we are going out to dinner which should be nice. - Out having some drinks the other night we got asked for ID. Ok so when I say "us" I mean everyone expect me. When I looked at him and said **** sorry I didn't even bring it ...

... Mind you I'm driving close to 80 miles an hour when Bee-Face decides to play tag with my ear. I end up swerving all over the road, which succeeded in doing absolutely nothing to thwart our enemy. The only thing I succeeded in doing was terrifying Evan. After the bee's double loop around the cabin, he returned to his post on the back window. We stopped immediately, literally in the middle of the road, opened the doors and tried to convince the ...