Wednesday 12 October 2011
Home Sweet Home
Monday 10 October 2011
The Grand Canyon
Got up early hours this morning to catch a shuttle out to a private airport called Maverick, a company that flew you to the Grand Canyon. Twas an interesting experience as far as customer service goes, but the Grand Canyon itself is spectaculor, the highlight was the helicopter trip that took you through the canyon stopping off in one of the 
gully's to take photographs. Met some really nice fellow passengers, people from Canada, England and Michigan. The particular tour we did had us running from pillar to post; we fast treked the skywalk, very rushed with photos, didnt get to explore the indigenious part as there was no time, got to go to Eagle point and Goana point (please excuse the spelling) very rushed, like 5minutes, in the middle of it all rushed in the cafe, scoffed down some food. Ended up giving feedback to one of the directors at the end of the tour, as none of the employees knew how to handle 
complaints, (our driver was really rude), as they quickly took the defensive and just didnt want to hear what anyone had to say. 
Felt more for the couple that didn't even make it to one of the sights and missed the meal.
complaints, (our driver was really rude), as they quickly took the defensive and just didnt want to hear what anyone had to say. 
Felt more for the couple that didn't even make it to one of the sights and missed the meal. Got back to our Hotel 1.30pm, Sharlene is off to the pool and i am uploading a video on my facebook and just relaxing in our room. Last night in Las Vegas.
Sunday 9 October 2011
DIVA SHOW
Saturday 8 October 2011
Our not so relaxing day
Ok so we had a bit of a sleep in, was suppose to have a relaxing day, but then caught a second wind when we refueled with Bourbon Chicken meal for lunch. And of course some retail therapy (oops). We were suppose to of just collected our tickets for the Phantom show at the Venetian Hotel, but then got side tracked, had a small totu on the pokies, and of course we didn't hit the jack pot, only took a few seconds for it to suck what little money we allocated, had to get an official lady to show us what to do first who said we were Vegas Virgins!
Friday night is not an easy night to travel down the strip we were rushing back to our hotel to change and drop off our shopping so we could travel back in time for the Phantom of the Opera. Made it just in time. Excellent show, brillant singing, another tick off my bucket list. Had a bite to eat on the way home, and yes oops a bit more retail therapy, and oops its midnight, feet are sore, ok another day gone, and yes must take it a bit easier tomorrow.
Stopped off a long the way taking photos of billboards, buildings and videoed the water show outside Belagio Hotel.
Highlights for today:
Booked our tickets to see the Grand Canyon on Monday
Elivs thinks I'm cute
Water show
Phantom of the Opera
Nestled back into bed ready for some shut eye
...3 more sleeps till we are back home
missing our family and friends
xo
Friday night is not an easy night to travel down the strip we were rushing back to our hotel to change and drop off our shopping so we could travel back in time for the Phantom of the Opera. Made it just in time. Excellent show, brillant singing, another tick off my bucket list. Had a bite to eat on the way home, and yes oops a bit more retail therapy, and oops its midnight, feet are sore, ok another day gone, and yes must take it a bit easier tomorrow.
Stopped off a long the way taking photos of billboards, buildings and videoed the water show outside Belagio Hotel.
Highlights for today:
Booked our tickets to see the Grand Canyon on Monday
Elivs thinks I'm cute
Water show
Phantom of the Opera
Nestled back into bed ready for some shut eye
...3 more sleeps till we are back home
missing our family and friends
xo
Friday 7 October 2011
Viva Las Vegas
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
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
Tuesday 4 October 2011
Last day in Orlando - Island of Adventures at Universal
Hi all, well it is our last day here in Orlando and we visited the Universal Island of Adventure theme park.
We had a great day and I thought that this was the best theme park we had visited, but there are still more theme parks to visit, but no time left.
I have just uploaded 3 sets of photos which you can view on the right hand side of the screen, just click on the set you want to look at and a slide show will start - the 3 sets include: Halloween Horror night, my night time mini putt by myself and finally the Island of Adventure theme park (enjoy).
We are off to Las Vegas tomorrow for our last 6 days of our trip.
Orlando has been a great destination, but there is still so much more to see, but that;s a great excuse to come back again.
Enjoy the photos
We had a great day and I thought that this was the best theme park we had visited, but there are still more theme parks to visit, but no time left.
I have just uploaded 3 sets of photos which you can view on the right hand side of the screen, just click on the set you want to look at and a slide show will start - the 3 sets include: Halloween Horror night, my night time mini putt by myself and finally the Island of Adventure theme park (enjoy).
We are off to Las Vegas tomorrow for our last 6 days of our trip.
Orlando has been a great destination, but there is still so much more to see, but that;s a great excuse to come back again.
Enjoy the photos
Monday 3 October 2011
DAY of REST
Sharlene went for a wander today, headed out to the outlet stores ??over 200 shops, bought a couple of things. I stayed in my hotel room as am still full of a sinus cold. Very little to report, nice hotel and good location. Hope all is well with loved ones and friends.
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