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On the road again! this time to Las Vegas. The land of glitz and glam - where everything is bigger and flashier than real. As one woman we overheard said, "Why go to the real Paris when the one here is better AND they serve proper hamburgers!" |
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LAS VEGAS - WHERE
YOU CAN START BETTING AS SOON AS YOUR PLANE LANDS!
This is the gate area at the Las Vegas airport.
We start
our trip by doing a bit of a walk about the town just trying to take it all in.
What we find are more kitschy hotels than you could ever imagine.
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Las Vegas is Spanish for The Meadows, named after settlers arrived at a small oasis out in the desert. We decide to check out that desert with a little drive.
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Getting into our red convertible for a day of gas guzzling driving through the Nevada desert |
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It just isn't America unless you stop at the Market N More for some Home Style Food. To them, home style meant microwave hot dogs, Twinkies, soda pop and potato chips. Mark decided on some "home style" Mountain Dew! |
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Of course, after all that Mountain Dew, |
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To combat the desert heat, we take a quick dip in Lake Mead. What the thick slime on the bottom of the lake (downstream from lots of towns) was, we don't want to know ... but we WERE the only ones swimming. |
Valley of Fire state park - a truly awesome (and silent)
site in the midst of all
the Vegas tackiness!
So, after a wonderful day amongst the joy of nature, we return that night
to the city....
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The slots may not be paying out, but we SURE were! We guess they have to pay for that $10m glass ceiling somehow! That's the show's Stage Manager, Chris, in the background, who was so kind as to give us a back stage tour!
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Usually, these are the only boys in good shape that one will see in Las Vegas...
... However, once a year, hundreds of boys flood into town for...
We start with an afternoon water park
tea dance.
Just us ... and about 1000 men in bathing suits.
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In the 'It's a
Small World' department - we run into Al of San Francisco, who we had
met some years earlier in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. 
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From there we head to the main event, a large party held on the grounds of the MGM Grand Hotel.
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Lights, shows, music, and dancing boys (nothing else?) kept us going until 8:00am. |
Well, there you have it, that's LAS VEGAS - not a bad place to visit ... you just have to suspend disbelief and, maybe, just a bit of good taste to get it! Snake eyes!
