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[andrewducker]

Anyway, Lilian tried to book us in, but they couldn't find us on their systems, a mystery solved when e discovered that Lilian had booked us in for a week _before_ the convention.

Luckily he has an amazing pathetic look, with the result that despite the fact that the hotel has been booked out for months, she got us a room. So we dumped bags and headed for the pool, which is on the roof of the 5th floor. Our room are on the 15th floor. Yes, we get quite a view. We're in the Downtown area of Las Vegas - much cheaper, but about 10 minutes by taxi from The Strip. Believe me, the room prices make the taxi fares worthwhile...

Anyway, we headed Stripwise for dinner, deciding to take a look at the Bellagio before getting food. The Bellagio is _amazing_. They have a restaurant full of Picassos - sadly the $100 cost was a bit out of our range, so we grabbed some snackfood and drinks (dried beef, pate, wild boar ham, etc) on a balcony where live music was occasionally interrupted by the huge geysers in the lake we were overlooking. The huge geysers being in time to the music that played, wavering back nd forth and moving to the melody. Incredibly beautiful stuff.

We wandered the halls for a while, alternating between feelings of awe and communist revolution before deciding to head next door to Caesar's Palace. Where The Bellagio is the model of up-to-date splendour, Caesar's has ben deliberately held in the age of Astair and The Rat Pack, effortlesly cool and comfortable, with various different live musicians entertaining diners with the classics.

We casually wandered from there into the underground shopping area os Caesar's, where the sky-paintd ceilings changed colour to denote the passing of time, and under the vaults of heaven were some ncredible sculptures of everything you can think of in Roman mythology (well, except for the bits that'd put people off of their meals).

After that we headed for home, feet sore from 4 hours of wandering, and collapsed bedwards. We're fairly sure we've seen the two nicest hotels on the strip, but Luxor's definitely on the must-see list.

Now it's time for breakfast (10am) and then off to see if Lilian is awake enough to go laze by the pool. If you're not envious you bloody well should be.

Comments

[nosrialleon.livejournal.com]

alternating between feelings of awe and communist revolution

And with this statement, you have captured the essence of Vegas.

[cynicalman.livejournal.com]

Odd that you're there now...my parents are doing the snowbird thing, and are in Las Vegas as we speak, as well. May not seem like a big deal when it's on the same continent, but they're about 1800 miles away at this point.

If you run into two tall, thin white-haired people, say hi for me.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Have you messed with the mob yet?

Jealousy abounds

[imaget.livejournal.com]

I spent the best spring break of my life in Vegas. Make sure you go to the Venetian it's gorgeous. i don't know if you are a Trek fan, but if ye are, go to the Experience at the Hilton. It's a blast.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

If you're not envious you bloody well should be.

Not envious at all! Sounds like my idea of holiday hell. ;-)

But in 84 hours I'll be heading down the Bright Angel Trail (weather permitting! *touch wood*) for my idea of an ideal holiday... which would doubtless be your idea of holiday hell.

[andrewducker]

Not at all. I like walking holidays. Most of my childhood holidays were spent in the Lake District or Peak dstrict or some other bumpy place, wandering up steep paths and down what later turned out to be cliffs.