Las Vegas!

After school I went back to the apartment and we left for Las Vegas!

Ivan rented a car for the weekend and it was surely more spacious than his friend's car. And it has a working horn, for goodness' sake. HAHA. That last car we used had a horn that wouldn't work.

Time for a good six hours' drive from LA to Las Vegas.

More leg space

John's Pink water bottle from Victoria's Secret

If you don't know yet, there are actually quite a lot of deserted areas around. I really mean deserts.



And blah blah blah, FINALLY! We left LA at about 1 p.m. and it was about 1827 that I saw this view.


Can you imagine? Gold buildings?

Reflecting itself

Even the Trump building is in gold!

Wynn.

Stylish

That's the hostel (which was really disappointing) that we stayed in. They had free limo service which we promptly ignored.



The Stratosphere. There were rides on the top of the tower that you can play. Crazy. I'll get a heart attack swinging around at that height. HAHA.


I was looking forward to the hostel since it was rated very well on hostelworld.com. We got there, and the people at the counter weren't exactly friendly. Collected keys for the room and when I entered the room I got the shock of my life.

The room was unkempt!

There was a lurking smell of cigarettes and the linens were tossed around and there was still trash on the table and floor!

And so I went back to the office and took another room which was of course much pleasant than the first.

However I was too tired to take a picture of the room or anything la. Nothing really impressive so it's okay.

Las Vegas is shimmery and glittery. So much that McDonald's decided to follow suit.


We went out late that night, so the buffets were closed and we had to settle with eating subs for dinner. =S Actually we had a lot of trouble finding dinner over the holiday there. Either too expensive or the cheaper buffets were closed or everything else.



My target of Vegas - the Venetian.

Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton, you name it, they have it

There was a monorail that enables you to hope from hotel to hotel, i.e. casino to casino. But if you didn't want to pay for the monorail there's a bridge that you can walk to bring you to the adjacent hotel.


Inside the Venetian.



I think to survive being Christine of the Phantom of the Opera in Vegas you have to have a good figure and be really hot and not just be Christine.

And this explains the cleavage you see in the following picture.

I am very sure not all Christines are like that
But this is the point of Vegas. Women and money

At last, I found what I wanted to find.

The fake Venice!
(can you see me in the picture? HAHA)

GONDOLA! The gondolians here sing better than those at Venice actually. But I think not all of them speak Italian

A la Piazza St. Marco

A club with lambourghinis inside. Duh

Caesars Palace, where we went to play slots in. There were two particularly avid slot gamblers among us.



Well you can't possibly come to Vegas and not gamble isn't it. So I pushed a dollar bill into the slot machine and there it goes. You can collect your winnings leftovers in the form of a cash voucher. I thought it was quite a souvenir for myself and hence...


HAHAHAHAHAHAA!! Can you believe it?? A penny was all I have left from one buck! HAHAHA!!!

Well at least I only lost 99 cents while some of them lost quite a few dollars. None of us came back a winner. But still, I'm poorer.

So I'm telling you, control your gambling wherever you go!

I actually used to play Caesars Palace on Sega when I was in primary school. It dawned on me that my parents allowed me to play such games hahaha. It was impossible that they didn't see, the TV was just there! So when I was young I played Caesars Palace's casino on the game set. Now that I'm older I played Caesars Palace's casino with the real deal.





McDonald's definitely gives in to peer pressure. Let's all bling-bling!



Evidently there were a lot of replicas in Vegas.



Then we walked to Bellagio where there was a fountain show every fifteen minutes or so. You see the water dance according to the music.



This trip to Vegas reminded me briefly of last year's Italy trip because of the Venetian and Bellagio. Been to both real and copied places and it sure feels weird. Just that the Bellagio here is totally different from the Bellagio in Italy.



And that marked the end of the night for us.

I officially dislike Vegas because the place was just about gambling and gentlemen's clubs. Too sleazy for my liking.

And the weather was just baking hot! Even at night! In LA it was cool yet sunny in the day and cold at night. At Vegas it was hot, hot, hot, 24/7!

Look, ma, new post! HAHAHA.