Vegas escapism is everywhere, the power house of Vegas is the slot machines that are maned day and night by the ordinary folks. When the designers create these impressive palaces, they have to give presidence to the slot machines that are the bread and butter of the casinos. It is like the Matrix, people sitting at bank after bank of slot machines in often dimly lit surroundings feeding the Vegas machine. Vegas is the steriotypical America image, but America as I...

It wasn't an early start, but it was much cooler so touring the strip during the day was an option. After meeting Claire and Andrew and having a drink it was almost time to get dressed for going out for the evening. The plan was to find some of the nightlife that Las Vegas is susposed to have. To keep costs down we had been going to the cheaper casinos where the drinks are heavily reduced to keep the punters in. Reading the what's on in Vegas they have lots of v...

The hotel has a nice wave pool and a lazy river that people could drift around the pool area on. With the temperature expected to be around 40 degrees little persusion was needed to get our monies worth and join the people doing the same. For the evening we went to see Cirque du Soleil's Zumanity at New York New York (a casino with you guest it a New York theme). This was one of the top shows that we managed to get for a massively reduced price. There was lots o...

Checking into the very posh for us Monte Carlo hotel on the Vegas strip. This is so we can be in the same hotel as Liz's sister and husband (Claire and Andrew) that have come out to see us. We are currently killing time by the pool until we can either get into the room or it is time to pick Claire AKA 'Clure' up from the airport. We are also trying to recover from an enormous burger we had at lunch. The blog picture is from our room on the 28th floor, poor old ...

Before we set off for the short 70 mile journey to Vegas we went to Wall Mart to buy some food. It is amazing what you can buy in these superstores, checkout the hunting outfit with decoy (blog picture). Other stuff ranges from guns to foca detergent. We also took the opportunity of getting our hair cut here. Trying to describe what you want in Spanish (central America next stop) can be tricky as I found out in Equador once (without the picture of Ricky Martin I ...