Holiday Inn Express Nellis Las Vegas

... show every 15 mins,   shed loads of shops and acres of gaming tables.....of course the night I booked the anniversary dinner close to said "water spectacle" it was too windy. The water reaches 100 ft high and if too windy can take out passing taxis and tourists. Now that's what I'd call a show. We couldn't bring ourselves to watch ...

... whilst on the Green Tortoise as they prefer to cater towards the non-meat eaters, which I minded not as I do enjoy vegetarian food.

After dinner I caught the Deuce bus all the way to the other end of the strip which is when I realised and as so many people have told me since, that to get anywhere on the strip takes hours. It is so long and gets so busy with traffic: bus & pedestrians, that to get ...

... mystery. still, it was all good fun.

i had a great time out there whilst burning holes in both my pocket and my liver. lots more things happened besides the above, but i'm tired, you're bored and i suspect there may be wolves at the door.

one more thing that deserves special mention was our inability to find any beer for sale late night monday/early morning tuesday. admittedly, this was only about a 20 minute period but, staying in a city where i'm ...

... behind 1 million dollars and ate at the Casino Café. The Casino Cafes food was horrible. I had a beef sandwich that was in a gravy soup, absolutely disgusting. From the sounds of Dad and Maurice’s food, it wasn’t much better. After that horrendous dinner, we saw the light show on Fremont Street which was entertaining, albeit too short. It was a montage of Queen, playing favourites such as 'We are the Champions’ and ‘We Will Rock You ...

Well, we picked up the rental car from Anaheim, got a lesson in the GPS which is called "Hertz Never Lost" We thought we would give it a run for its money, but it is just a wonderful system.

Nearly shat ourselves getting on the free-way, and was tense for a few miles whilst we got going, but managed to get to Vegas without any hiccups. Took lots of photos of traffic - will probably delete some, but were astounded at how well we travelled ...

... as the Venetian to check it out before heading back in the other direction to check out the Luxor. We walked both sides of the street before we were finished! The architecture and facades of the buildings fascinate us and, after checking out some of the interior decorations, decided that in many cases that is all there is. However, our revisit to Cesar ...

... sammiches, and chocolate boxes that were wayyy too expensive. I think the crepes were $8 a piece. We paid no more than 4 Euro in Paris. Granted the exchange rate was not in our favor, but they were still cheaper than these were. We may come back here for break-lunch if we have time.It was decided, we were definitely going to Cheesecake Factory. Yes there is one in Orlando that we can go to... but we aren't able to ...

... gold-glass facade reflected the sunset perfectly. The inside was just as opulent - definitely the place to stay when/if we have access to more money! Tired by this point, and having had our fill of casinos, we headed back, stopping on the way to watch the slightly odd mock sea-battle outside Treasure Island. This battle used to feature pirates and the navy and was a fairly family-friendly spectacle which featured in the film 'Miss Congeniality.' These days ...

... a particular "house" on a quest to conquer the island of Westeros. The game has some interesting mechanics like the ability to raid or destroy another player's order to his troops. I wished I paid more attention to the rules because I screwed up using this mechanic several times. Although I have never read the book, I thought it was ironic that I followed the same strategy/plot-line of my house "Greyjoy". I formed an non-aggression ...

... lucked out and scored a GPS unit from backpacker magazine. She was reading the magazine and saw that they needed people to map out hikes for them. She gave them a call and 2 weeks later BAM! We had our own GPS unit! She has since used the unit to map out hikes for the magazine and they are online at Backpacker.com. Another side trip I was able to do was to drive to Flagstaff Arizona where a Carrie ...