Anyway she had to get the flowers, get them to another hotel, get to her hotel , change, and get to the wedding. In an hour and a half? When it takes about 30 mins just to walk past a single hotel? Yeah. Needless to say she was stressed.So the night before both Vik and I were pretty wired. We arrived in Vegas around 11pm, so it wasn't until about 2pm until we got into our hotel room. Watching TV and chatting until almost 4 resulted in another late night. Even though we slept in until about 9:30am, we had to check out of the hotel, so yeah, another night of very little sleep.

We had to check out of our hotel and it was 4 hours til we got our next hotel room so what do we do with our bags? Welllll for small fee, the MGM would stow our bags in the bag check service, nice.

We headed out onto the strip. Well once we go through the lobby, through the huge casino of the MGM, through the lions cage and through the restaurants and shops of the MG, we walked out onto the strip.

Outdoors was smoking hot, easily over 100 degrees. Little did I know that in the coming days that would be considered a nice cool balmy temperature.

Neither of us are big on gambling but we enjoyed the spectacles of the hotels. New York, New York was pretty cool. The attention to detail and perspective type construction to give the illusion of street scenes was impressive.

Pretty kick ass for going for ice cream eh?

The Luxor was a real feat of engineering I can appreciate. A massive hollowed out pyramid with diagonally travelling escalators and the only single light visible from space sticking out of the top of it make it very impressive.

Vik says this reminds of the brush saw I have at The Lot.

The area was sooooo hot that at one point Vik touched the ground while climbing onto a giant Sphynx statue and sort of burned his hand.

There is a helicopter in this picture.

We continued on to check out the City Central development in the heart of the strip. This is a combination of casinos, hotels, residences and community facilties that is one huuuge development with some very interesting architecture. Total cost? 7.7 Billion dollars….for one set of hotels! Big.

Paris was nice. I like the effect of the Eiffel Tower being both in and outside of the hotel at once. Very impressive re-creation.

Ceasers Palace, wow what a huge place. I can’t believe the attention to detail, the cost, the spectacle of it all.

This is a pic of a circular escalator, kinda cool.

Vik and I stopped at a Planet Hollywood for a casual lunch. We couldn’t help but notice the stressed out woman pacing around and looking very uncomfortable near us, near the hostess station.

We offered a seat as she seemed to be waiting. She declined but proceeded to share with us how she was attending a wedding in about an hour and half and was at Planet Hollywood picking up some flowers or something. At Planet Hollywood? None of us understood that one.

Anyway she had to get the flowers, get them to another hotel, get to her hotel , change, and get to the wedding. In an hour and a half? When it takes about 30 mins just to walk past a single hotel? Yeah. Needless to say she was stressed.

Anyway as it turns out the manager could not find the flowers but was trying a few more places to look. As all this unfolded she did sit down with us, and we tried to console her and to help with some plan B type solutions. We were contriving plans of raiding the flower arrangements of the MGM we had seen earlier as they were the right colour! We even ordered her a drink, lol.

Eventually the guy found the flowers and Emily was off like a shot…see ya.

Ideas for Lantern Festival?

One place I had to walk by was The Bellagio. The next day I will be visiting with a software company that is providing services to us and their roots are in the construction of the Bellagio Hotel.

We headed back to the MGM, got our bags and cabbed them to the next hotel. The bikes were safely ensconced in the free parking of the MGM so we didn’t need to move or use them for now. All the while I was plotting how I was going to repair my broken throttle cable.

bein a freak.

In the new hotel room we actually had some time for a short nap in air conditioned comfort, ahhh bliss.

From the there we took a taxi to a show – La Reve, that was a fantastic show, Great costumes, crazy stages and props and wonderful music. I even got to have a beer while I watched it.

After the show we had a late dinner in Denny’s and did some more walking around, my feet were wearing out as I did not have the right shoes. We ended watching late nigh tv before crashing.