CASINO WORKERS!

Day 228

Las Vegas, NEVADA USA

We went next door to the restaurant that has a steak dinner and a beer included for $699. Oh yummo! They know how to make steaks just exactly right..and i haven't enjoyed a good steak since Africa!!

Today was one of those days...we thought...let's explore...and when we went outside our hotel...there was the world..all lit up..in the middle of the day!

Las Vegas is an amazing place!

So many lights..so much building going on..so much activity. I was here 12 years ago..and about the only thing i remember from then is having eggs thrown at us from the sidewalk..(they were aiming shamefully at the Japanese in front of us..and got us instead!) and going up an escalator and falling down once i got to the top, because silly me was looking back down taking photos! (A guy on our tour caught me!!)

And i remember staying at the Excalibur..and thinking...this is a weird place! IT was a castle..full of knights dressed up..and the outside looked more like a cake than a hotel!

Anyway....we went to the 'strip' today..and looked around at all the hotels..

Then..we headed off to Toastmasters!

Greg and I..for anyone that doesn't know, are mad keen Toastmasters. We were members until we came overseas and we thought seeing America is the home of Toastmasters, we'd go check out how things are done here.

SO..off we went...

To the LUXOR!!!!

A huge hotel..which looks like a pyramid! It's funny...because when i rang the club..they said..."Go to the Luxor, and when you face the big sphinx, look to the left and you'll see a big paw...that's where the room for Toastmaster's is!"

So...that's what we did...thinking it was pretty exciting going to Toastmasters in a big paw, inside a pyramid!

We snuck inside....and met the 7 members of the club..and a club coach that was conducting a coaching session for the night...and found it was a warm friendly club. Not unlike our own club. They had a Word of the Night (Wind) and Tabletopics..(Wind) and a speech (Global warming) which was all a bit naff. We realised our club, was far more stimulatin than this club..but after talking to the coach, we realised it was a club that was 'building'...so they were forgiven!

After Toastmasters we headed out...

To...the Excalibur...where a guy told us we could have a free dinner. And show. And cruise.

With one catch.

We had to go and see a presentation!

We're booked on Thursday to see it!!!!

Afterwards we saw the exciting water fountain and singing show at the Bellagio Hotel.

And went to Caesars to book Elton John...

And at 10pm had dinner.....at the restaurant next door (another steak meal!) and lost $5, won $7.50, won $6.00. lost $5.25 on the pokies....

I think we came out a little in front....

At least we didn't lose...

We got called CASINO WORKERS by the staff!!!!!!!!

US? "Casino Workers"............?????

Our new profession!

Tomorrow..early morning...we're off to the Grand Canyon!