las vegas strip

The spectacular water display at Bellagio
One of the few remaining old style lights of Vegas


The Hotel where we stayed.

Thursday 6th

Today we decided to sleep in a bit, when we got up we went to McDonald's for breakfast as it was nice and close. After that we decided to go "Croc" (shoe) shopping. We found the shops but they were only Kiosk outlets and the workers didn't have a clue what they were selling, so we wasted a lot of time on nothing as they didn't have the product i was looking for. After that we decided to walk the strip again and have a peek in the casinos that we missed the other day, we are also collecting dice for Peta in Cairns so it was a good excuse to go into all of them. During the walk down the Strip we went to M&M world and Coke World, these places were amazing, I never would have though that M&M's could have enough merchandise to cover 4 floors but they do. When we arrived at "New York, New York" we decided to ride the Casino's roller coaster. The price was a bit Exxy at $14.00US a ride but it was worth it, it is one of the longest roller coasters I have been on so one ride was enough. We also waited for the Bellagio water display for 40 minutes before we realised they were doing maintenance on it. We also visited Mandalay, Excalibur and Luxor.
Later that night we decided to go back to the strip to take some photo's of the lights of the casino's and look at the Bellagio water display, firstly the Casino lights are not what I expected, a lot of the older Casino's from the 50's and 60's with the fancy lighting displays are being replaced buy new super casino's with fancy facades and super screens to display there messages on, sure it may be more efficient but doesn't have the wow factor that Vegas is famous for.

One Casino making up for it is the Bellagio, during the night they have a spectacular water display, it is hard to describe but it is water shooting in the air done to the tune of a famous song, think of it as "Skyshow" with water, we stayed an watched 3, yes we wasted more time on a water display but it was worth it especially when it is backed to an Elvis song. Viva Las Vegas.