After a bit of refreshing from the Death Valley rocks, sand and salt, we started walking the Las Vegas Strip. As we're in the Excalibur, we first visited the New York-New York, where I got on the big roller coaster. What a thrill!!
We continued walking the strip along the other side of the road by use of overhead walkways, passing the MGM Grand, Hard Rock Café, Planet Hollywood, Paris Las Vegas - with it's own giant replica of the Eiffel Tower. Across the street we could see the more prestigious buildings, like the Aria, the Cosmopolitan and Caesar's Palace. We finally passed our original hotel/gambling temple, The Imperial Palace. Didn't look very imposing to us. By that time it had gotten dark and we were very hungry, so we went into Harrah's and up to the Range Steak House, where you can eat the most incredible tasty stakes! It's quite pricey, but a dream to the palate you will never forget! We also visited M&M's world. How can you possibly fill 4 stores with M&M gadgets, clothes, cups, trinkets?!? Well, this is America, remember...
With low-lifes along the strip, Mexicans trying to get you a ticket for some sleazy strip-club, people in designer clothes, incredible street artists like the one we saw with his spraycans, and street to stage artists like Charles Rangel and so forth..
After dinner, we crossed the Strip and returned to our hotel. Just in front of The Bellagio, while watching the water ballet, an enormous thunderstorm approached Las Vegas, so after a couple of minutes the desert heat was subsided by an enormous downfall. We managed to take shelter at the Cosmopolitan, until the raining stopped. We got back to the hotel in a pretty dry state that way, luckily...
What you see in Vegas is that all the shows are more and more being created by the team of Cirque du Soleil: Viva Elvis, The Beatles Love, even Criss Angel Believe. And of course there's a permanent genuine Cirque du Soleil show at the Bellagio. we skipped all of them...
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