After our harrowing adventures of the evening before, once we made it to our 'hostel' - which really is a motel. We grabbed a couple of hours sleep and then it was time to hit the town! But first, breakfast. We stopped in the nearby diner and got unlimited coffee refills and a wierd thing called sausage and biscuit with gravy - which basically was a meat patty, some scones and a strange, thick creamy sauce - I promptly felt desperately ill afterwards! But then we set off for the town...
The Vegas "Strip" is huge. Absolutely huge. Its kind of like Orchard Rd, Singapore - huge boulevarde, huge department stores that you need to visit (well in this case, not department stores, but hotels and casinos) and incredibly hot outside. I was just melting, walking up the strip. We gave up and caught the 'deuce' bus - but the traffic was so bad we almost could've walked there quicker.
We went into a couple of the casinos, and to be honest, I was really quite disappointed. Rather than the glamorous look of the casinos in the Hollywood movies (read: Ocean's Eleven), instead you get tacky slot machines ringing out a constant C major arpeggio (which really gets irritating after a while). And if you go over to the roulette and blackjack tables, instead of your George Clooney types sitting there in suit and jacket, you've got Joe Blogs in t-shirt and thongs, two teeth missing and a fag hanging out of the mouth. Gross.
But we were in Vegas, so we had to have a little go - sorry Major, I'll be down the mercy seat when I get back. I didn't bet much. I spent $20 on the blackjack machine (not the tables) and had the good sense to quit when I was winning. I won a grand total of $13 - my meal for the evening.
We got tickets to see a show too - no, not a strip show - but Gordy Brown, impersonator. He was pretty good, but alas I didn't appreciate it as much as I would've, because we were feeling so jetlagged....
Got back to the hostel around 12.30am next morning and just crashed out again... after all, tomorrow is a big day.... we start our road trip...
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