We hadn’t walked more than 20 metres off the plane when we were hit by a room full of gaming machines - that‘s Las Vegas. The cultural shock continued when we had to navigate our way across a huge floor of gaming machines at the Stratosphere Hotel to find the check-in desk.
Whilst checking in we met up with Wendy, (Del’s sister), with whom we will be travelling to New York. 
In Caesar’s Palace we got totally lost it was so large and ended up next door in The Palazzo. The casinos are completely over the top, amazing and opulent. Words and photos can’t describe adequately, but look at the photos anyway. You have to add to these photos a scale which cannot be captured by still photos, the noise of constantly tinging and clanging machines and advertising over the PA and expense beyond belief. There are shops to die for every where. The rest of our trip is perhaps pointless now that we’ve already been to Paris, Venice, New York and Rome. This is better than the real thing; it's brand new and not covered in pidgeon shit ;-)
Whilst checking in we met up with Wendy, (Del’s sister), with whom we will be travelling to New York. 
In Caesar’s Palace we got totally lost it was so large and ended up next door in The Palazzo. The casinos are completely over the top, amazing and opulent. Words and photos can’t describe adequately, but look at the photos anyway. You have to add to these photos a scale which cannot be captured by still photos, the noise of constantly tinging and clanging machines and advertising over the PA and expense beyond belief. There are shops to die for every where. The rest of our trip is perhaps pointless now that we’ve already been to Paris, Venice, New York and Rome. This is better than the real thing; it's brand new and not covered in pidgeon shit ;-)
The best part of L.V. was Fremont Street. A two block mall between casinos, covered by an arched ceiling of 12 million lights with a 500,000 watt sound system. Every hour for 15 minutes there was a fabulous light and music show. We stayed for two sessions (even though it was late and we were leaving early in the morning to drive to Denver.) 
Queen’s ‘We will rock you’ and Canned Heat ‘Going up the Country’ and other songs from Woodstock. Warm night - lots of people, and a pleasantly relaxed, happy atmosphere. A cover band played Jimmy Hendrix ‘Star Spangled Banner’ and Janis Joplin on a central stage between light shows. 
There was a theme of Woodstock for the 40 years anniversary, August 16 1969. What an amazing place.
Queen’s ‘We will rock you’ and Canned Heat ‘Going up the Country’ and other songs from Woodstock. Warm night - lots of people, and a pleasantly relaxed, happy atmosphere. A cover band played Jimmy Hendrix ‘Star Spangled Banner’ and Janis Joplin on a central stage between light shows. 
There was a theme of Woodstock for the 40 years anniversary, August 16 1969. What an amazing place.
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