Bright light city gonna set my soul
Gonna set my soul on fire!!!.......Viva Las Vegas
Well, the lyrics to Viva Las Vegas, certainly reflects what is happening in this city, i.e. people with a whole lot of money to burn (whether they have it or not!). Arrived late Wednesday night a 5hour flight from Washington DC. It is strange travelling 5 hours on a plane when you look out the window of the plane, there is city after city, what a huge continent this is. Most terminals in this country are like little islands of which can only be accessed via monorail. Our first view of Las Vegas was being greeted by Pokey machines as soon as you got off the gangeway!! We have been so lucky with weather, that we noticed the big temperature dip when we arrived here, evidently it is unusual! Quickly got on the monorail, picked our luggage up and headed to our hotel, was a bit tired!
Luxor Hotel is an Eygptian themed Hotel, the hotel itself is in the shape of a glass pyramid, with a huge sphinx at the front. Sharlene said that it looks bigger than the actual sphinx in Eygpt. As soon as you walked in got hit with promotions, and it turned out to be a timeshare i.e we will give you free tickets to shows, $150 to spend on anything you want if you listen to their advertising presentation at a new 5star hotel that they just finished building. Was going to go along to listen as that was all that was asked but decided to flag it when they asked for too much information. It is certainly prey marketing.
Had a good nights sleep and then after cancelling our timeshare visit, went for a big walk, along the south end of the strip, headed for their outlet shoppig mall, just average. It was a bit obvious that not many people walk the distance we did. Whilst in the building there must of been a huge down pour of rain that we didnt hear at all so caught the bus back to the central strip area. We decided to visit the half price ticket stand to book some shows. Elvis, Circa su la in the evening, Phantom tonight, and Divas on Saturday night. Slowly worked our way back to the hotel of which we walked through a big protest in support of the Wall Street protests against the big corporates and government. People have certainly had enough of the greed, manipulations of the big guns in coporate and government and it is being echoed across the country. It will be interesting to watch what eventuates here.
If you are into, gambling, alcohol, smoking, entertainment (erotica) well this place will certainly fulfill your dreams. Sorry guys am a fan of New York and Orlando. As a people watcher it is quite sad watching people pile their hopes and dreams into a machine, they sit there for hours, and not surprised days!!
So we went to the Elivs, Circa su la show last night. WOW incredibly gifted people. The whole show was of Elivs life with film of him singing and the dancers, acrobats and back up singings supporting him. So much to take in, people and props popping out of no where, the flexibility and balance of these acrobats etc was incredible. Highly recommend.
Well that about wraps things up for now, it is early morning, Sharlene is having a bit of a sleep in, the sun is peeping through the clouds, looking to have a relaxing day.
Hope all is well for you all. Ready to come home now.
Love Joanne xoxo
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