Viva Las Vegas
Trip Start
Feb 11, 2008
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5
11
Trip End
Mar 24, 2008
Where I stayed
Las Vegas,
Nevada,
United States
Saturday, February 23, 2008
One of the highlights was the fountains at Bellagio - play every ½ hour to music and are just spectacular.
Circus Circus
No rest for the weary, we were up early on Friday morning to catch a SUV (4WD) tour out to Red Rock Canyon.Las Vegas is surrounded by magnificent mountain scenery and Red Rock Canyon was no exception. Unfortunately the weather was the worst day of our trip with freezing cold winds etc and coincidentally the first day we had left our jackets behind (we hadn't used them yet!).
Still we were shown Joshua Trees, cactus, Juniper trees, Colorado Pinyon (pine nut) Trees and more. Our first stop was the Red Rock Canyon visitors centre which told us lots about the natural history of the area. The Red Rock Canyon comprises a stunning array of coloured hills - sandhills frozen in time. Sandstone, Limestone, Magnesium and Ironstone coloured them in bands of red, yellow and white and I'm sure on a sunny day in summertime are just stunning. We then went offroad up into the mountains a short distance and bounced around. It was raining so water started running down the hills and we even saw a small flash flood on the way home. Unfortunately (due to the weather) no desert burros or tortoises to be seen.
One stop was at an ancient Indian site with handprints on the rock face. All in all a great morning drive.
We were dropped back at the Luxor (pyramid) Hotel where we tried their buffet out as well as explored the hotel a little. Unfortunately (seems to be our luck a bit) King Tut's tomb was closed.
We moved on to MGM Grand mainly to see their lion's in the special lion habitat. It was afternoon nap time though so we didn't see much of them and moved on to M&M's world which is 4 floors of M&M's souvenirs of every kind and budget imaginable.
On the strip
A real example of successful merchandising complete with a free 3D movie titled I lost my M in Vegas! We settled for mainly edible treats from this shop.Decided it was time for our afternoon nap and retired to Circus Circus for a couple of hours. We then set off for Caesar's Palace for our date with the Divine Miss M. Once through tight security screening we had one usher tell us that the show wasn't suitable for children. We responded that we were well aware of the type of show it was and that's why our seats were way up the top of the Coliseum. We almost got vertigo carrying our "free" cocktails (softies for the kids) down the steps to our seats and proceeded to relax and enjoy a spectacular show.
Unbelievably well looking and talented for her age, although age was the butt of many of her jokes, Bette played her 3rd night to a full house. The scantily clad (but not naked) Caesar's Salad girls backed up the H.. Harlots and Bette with a great display of showgirl performance. One scene included all on stage in mermaid outfits wizzing around in wheelchairs which was very funny.
Most of Bette's naughty humour went over the kids heads (we hope) but had us laughing our heads off. Needless to say she was a big highlight of TC & my trip and the kids enjoyed it (JJ more than RJ).
To the kids relief we taxied home and prepared to leave the lovely but loud Las Vegas on Saturday morning.
Got through security and spent yet another couple of hours in an airport waiting for our flight to Toronto.
I'll leave it there for now as I'm sure you've read enough for now. Cheers til next time.... KC
Comments
Homecliffs
Hi there,
loving all the travel news and photo's. Have to get a DVD of all of them when you get home. Love G&G.