Viva Las Vegas, "Thank you verry much"

Well I'm still here in Beautiful Las Vegas, But unfortunately I am leaving tomorrow so i will recap everything that happened here so far. First of all The picture above is a picture from the "top of the world" or the "Stratosphere". Ok "Day one on the Strip" we started at the Tropicana (or something like that) and slowly worked our way down, but before we even got to the end of the building we got caught by our first Timeshare sales man. After talking for a little bit he said he could give us 4 tickets to see a magic show and 4 all you can eat buffets for only 40 bucks. Once we finished talking to him we walked past the MGM Grand checked out there gift shop and continued down the Strip. As soon as we got past the Grand we got hit by another Timeshare man who smooth talked his way into making us cancel our agreement with the other guys for 4 tickets to the "V" Variety show and 4 all you can eat buffets at the "Excalibur". After we had that out of the way we passed by a place called "Gameworks" which I convinced my parents into going into by telling them we could go to the M&M shop right next to it, once inside i saw a giant rock which i just had to climb.Keep in mind this is only half the rock, the other half is below the second floor. The sign on the floor said that the rock was 75 feet tall and i climbed it in about 2 and a half minutes so that's a new record for rock climbing for me. After that we just walked down the Strip, saw the water show at the Bellagio, ate at caesars palace, and of course we got hit by ANOTHER time share guy who promised us $100, and of course dad got to talking about the Superbowl, and the touchdown by "Ben Watchamhamburger" (the guys know what I'm talking about) and how it was a bad call, and how he never made it over the line, and all that, but anyway I'm getting carried away. After all that we simply went back. Ok so I'm not real clear on which day was which, so the next inter active thing we did was spend the day at the "Adventure Dome" at the "Circus Circus " Hotel and Casino while mom and dad... you guessed it went on a timeshare tour, anyway the "Adventure Dome was pretty fun except they didn't have many rides and none of them had lines making it easy to go on all of them 3 times in about 2 hours. The next time we went out we went to "New York New York" (One thing i don't get is why they have so many redundant names) and went on the roller coaster which was also pretty fun (12 bucks though). A few days after that we strolled the strip again starting at the bottom and working our way up, first we went to "TI" (or treasure island) and saw the show there which defined the reason why the Sirens were so seductive (Skanks). We waited an hour for a 5 minute volcano show, saw the water show at the "Bellagio" again, saw a hula show where the dancer almost convinced me to go up on stage to hula with her, and saw the Lions at the MGM Grand, then went back, where on the way we were "car horn-ish-ly" assaulted by drunks (stupid morons would not shut up). The very next day went to the "Stratosphere" where we ate yet another buffet and went to the very top of the 140 story building (all except dad, he was to chicken to go up) where I got some good pictures.Heres a photo of me on top of Vegas.

This is a picture of "Las Vegas Blv." and if you look very closely just to the right of the greenish building (MGM Grand) you can see this little beam of light, that is the light from the top of the Luxor (the pyramid) and can be seen anywhere in vegas.Heres a picture of the actual tower itself, yes i know its fuzzy but its the only one we have.
The next day we woke up early (10 AM is early when you are on vacation) so we could go to Hoover dam where of course i was having a bad hair day.There isn't much to say about the dam except that the woman's bathroom was in Arizona HA, Arizona sucks. (no offence to the Arizonians but it has quickly become the state I despise the most) Anyway I didn't get that many pictures of the dam because I was at the helm of the Video camera so what you see is what I've got. Heres the dam itself. This is a picture of one of the statues next to the dam, supposedly rubbing their feet gives good luck (it was a disappointment when they told me i couldn't lick their feet). Heres one looking down the dam.They had a really cool Zodiac thing there (don't ask me why) so i quickly snapped a shot of Leo my favorite, (I am very biased... bised, byest, how do you spell that?) and made a dash for the gift shop.
After the dam we went back to the "stratosphere" to go to a show that we got free by going to a timeshare, it was basically a bunch of impersonators, Elvis, Britney Spears, Tim Magraw (who's song i still have stuck in my head now, oh how i hate country), Christina Agulara, And Michael Jakson who was believe it or not, the best out of all of them, and I'm not just saying that because he is only a few shades lighter then me. He was the only one to break character, And I don't blame him, if I was impersonating a pedofile i would be tempted to also. After that we went to Fremont street where we saw the cool light show, a pianist who signed a CD we bought because i am trying to be a pianist, and a guy who was pretending to be a robot, and was really quite good, if I was decade younger i would think he was a moving manikin. All in all it was a pretty fun vacation and i am dreading having to go back to Arizona where we will just sit in the car for 4 to 5 hours listening to music and wearing sunglasses and doing nothing in particular like the picture below.Anyway i hope you enjoyed reading about all the good stuff that happened to me ( I wouldn't though) and now for a new segment of my blog, my THOUGHT OF THE DAY

I have yet to see rain west of the continental divide.