Day 231 - 233
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Happy birthday to our GORGEOUS nephew and 6 year old ETHAN!!!!
And to our beautiful 11 year old nephew ...JUSTIN!!!!
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i wish i were there to celebrate your birthdays.....and to give you a BIG HUG and a BIG KISS for your birthday's!
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Las Vegas is COOL!
We've lost all our money...BUT...we've enjoyed concerts at the Excalibur (Tournament of Kings) and at Caesars Palace (Elton John which was INCREDIBLE....and touch with a heap of nostalgia..and i must tell you, the most incredible video clips....blimen heck....they'd never be shown in Perth..they were so GRAPHIC!!!!) and we've been to EVERY CASINO IN TOWN!!!
And don't we know it...
WE WALKED@!
Or were blown!
If we weren't BLOWN to the casino's (last night the winds blew us to smithereens! ... I'd say 100 mile winds..which caused fires in LA!) we walked..or caught the 'Deuce' which is the bus!
To the Bellagio..Caesor....then to Casino Royale, to Paris, to MGM, to Luxor, to every spot on earth.......
What a place! The lights..the atmosphere..the people...the fun..oh OH OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
It's brilliant!!!!
The food..is beyond words - even the 'freebie dinner' that the Timeshare Experience gave us..a $50 dollar voucher at the Steak House at the Luxor was fun (although i'm sure i saw people looking at my SHOES!)...and...the fact that even though we had a voucher for $50, and only ordered a salmon (Me) and a steak (Greg) it STILL cost us a hundred buckaroo's..............(I bought a NZ chardonnay as they didn't know what a Chenin Blanc was (?) and Greg bought an Aussie wine...for ahem, $15!)
Not quite like our neighbours here..THE best restaurant in town, where we have been the quintessential regulars...giving a 25% tip each time....the "Ellis Island Restaurant", where we can buy a steak (exquisite), a salad, chips or baked potato and green beans and a beer for US$6.99!! (which tastes wonderful!)
What else else have we done in this incredibly wonderful, indulgent, BIG, Fat, HUGE, MASSIVE and exciting town (it is!!!) ..
We caught a bus and went to the Liberace Museum...saw his piano's and CARS (encrusted with rhinestones!) and all his wonderful costumes....they are quite something...
And..oh yeah, we went to Freemont Street, where it all started..and saw the canopy light show..it's like nothing else on earth!! We were there at 6.30pm and all of a sudden....you look up, and the canopy overhead starts singing at you....and everyone in the street starts dancing! Including us..(yeah, we're real dero's!). It's SO much fuN!
It's great! We love all the activity, the excitement, the atomosphere, the energy, the whole sordid, touching compassionate, sexy thing..about Vegas..!!!!
And we need another week..
THERE IS SO MUCH TO SEE HERE!!
But of course..we're on our way again..tomorrow!
See you in Dallas!
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PS LAS VEGAS is not a place to make money...THEY make money outta you...just look at the LIGHTS here....!!!!!
PPS The take-away 'boxes' here (doggie bags!) are SO big! And everyone seems to fill them with their left over food..from steaks, to 'biscuits' (like a scone that they have here) to desserts! We're wondering why they have left overs..because we never do..but then, we never order anything other than the main meal...and we're usually pretty hungry by the time we have it so we don't have 'leftovers'!
