So we were up early and down to the desk to go for this holiday apartments tour. We knew it was too good to be true. We were told that we needed anything with both our names on it to prove we live together. I told them yesterday that the only thing we had was our flight booking confirmation, which they were fine with. But this morning a different woman said it was no good. We knew something wouldn't be right about this. Anyway, we got our $40 back.

Good thing we were up early anyway, otherwise we would have slept in and wasted time.

We set off walking down the strip and went looking around Treasure Island first. Then we went into Mirage, and then onto The Forum shopping centre at Caesar's Palace for a while. It's really nice in there and very posh. And it's huge with so many shops. The buildings are amazing.
Then we had lunch in Cheesecake Factory. We had to go because we loved it when we discovered it in Orlando 2 years ago. We got the cheap lunch menu which are supposed to be smaller sizes, but they were still as big as home. Therese had salmon and I had pasta. The food is so nice there. Then we shared strawberry cheesecake to finish.

You can just stand around on the strip in one spot for ages looking around because there's just so much to see. There's so many extravagant hotels - they're huge and they all have some sort of theme. And they go into so much detail to create the themes. They must spend silly amounts of money.

Next up was the famous Bellagio. What a place that is. It's really nice inside the casino and the shopping centre. Then we took a look around the swimming pool area, although you can't go very far as you have to be a guest. We saw enough though! Absolutely lovely place.
Then there's the lake out the front of it. Amazing place.

One of the newest hotel & casinos is the Cosmopolitan. That is a really modern, swanky casino with plush bars. We decided to go for a drink in one of them called Bond. Fancy, cool bar. All the seating is made to look like it's floating or hanging and there's lots of fancy lights. Nice to chill.

From there we went for a bit more of a walk around to the new Aria Hotel & Casino, and by this time we were really tired. We started the walk back and was going to get a taxi, but went into Miracle Mile for the toilet. The toilet was miles into the shopping centre, we walked for ages. Then when we finally got out of there, we saw a sign for the monorail which runs on the street behind The Strip. I thought I'd read that it was free, but after walking miles to that through the Bally Casino, it cost $5 each and it didn't even take us that close to our hotel...so we walked all the way back to The Strip. We were shattered so decided to jump on the bus. Not too bad, $7 for 24 hours on the bus.
On the bus back, we then realised how far we'd actually walked! It was about 3 miles, plus we'd been walking inside the casinos.

We had to have a nap for an hour. We both felt like we'd slept a few hours after it though. Could have easily just slept through.
So, we dragged ourselves out of bed and caught the bus to Fremont Street. It's in the downtown area where the main casinos used to be. There's old famous ones like the Golden Nugget, and there's that big neon cowboy that you see on old films with Vegas in it.

The big attraction there is the Fremont Street Experience. There's a canopy over a long pedestrianised street, which curves upwards and is like a huge long TV screen. They played a tribute to Queen on it. All the lights for the shops and casinos went off, then the music was playing and had this pretty good colourful show came on with guitars and stuff shooting across the screen above. It was pretty good actually. But the downtown area is really tacky and old. Still definitely worth a visit though.

It was freezing and really windy tonight, so we didn't spend too long there. We warmed ourselves up with a really nice cheap coffee from Dunkin' Donuts though...obviously I had to get a donut whilst there too!