Back from Vegas and was it ever fun! It's so jarring to come back to rain and arctic winds when you've spent a week in a dry, sweltering desert; it was like 35 degrees there every day. Man, that place is crazy architecture-wise. In the beginning, I couldn't help but think: "This amount of excessive grandeur seems wrong somehow." Vegas is an oasis of hedonism in the middle of nowhere. It was surprising how nice people were.
Saw the Grand Canyon and the Hoover Dam too while I was down there, which was awesome. In Vegas itself, we visited a ton of the hotels/casinos like MGM Grand, Luxor, Mandalay Bay, Excalibur, Monte Carlo, New York New York, Planet Hollywood, the Bellagio, Caeser's Palace, the Mirage, Treasure Island, Circus Circus, the Venetian, and the Golden Nugget down on Freemont Street. I have to admit that it felt pretty cool to finally see for myself a lot of things I knew from CSI. Clark County! Desert Palms Hospital! Henderson! Lake Mead! ;D
Did some shopping while we were there too, mostly of the clothing and jewelery variety. I bought myself the biggest margarita ever (as seen in Flickr), which I drank far too fast in sweltering weather... not a good idea hahahaha. But I got the souvenir I wanted in the end and that's what matters. One night I went out to Studio 54, which was lots of fun, great music. Watched the fountains at the Bellagio and the volcano at the Mirage too. Didn't get to do absolutely everything I wanted to while I was there (it was only 5 days, after all) but I did have a fantastic time. :)
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