thats what you get for waking up in vegas
July 17th, 2009
eiffel tower, las vegas style! mmm strawberry margarita.
Vegas is even crazier than on the movies, I tell ya. It is so over the top, overly luxurious, un-freakin-believable. You have to laugh but be impressed at the same time. It is a piece of craziness plonked right in the desert. Every casino offers you FREE drinks (the drunker you get, the more you spend). Every hotel has a massive casino where you will struggle to find the exit (the more lost you are, the more you spend). The hotels are insaaaaane. One of our amazing moments was drinking wine on the 64th floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel with a view right over Vegas by night (even the bathrooms were surrounded in glass so you could look out). Pure extravagance.
I spoiled the French boy with a burlesque show at the Flamingo which turned out to be amazing. He spent our last night at a poker table until 6am in the morning. So yeah, all in all, a crazy fun time full of casinos, margaritas, 45 degree heat (feels like a blowdryer), street entertainers, the biggest buildings ive ever seen. Madness.
On the 6 hour bus trip back to LA, I chatted to a guy and was saying about how crazy the consumerism is in Vegas, how much money is lost there, the addictions, and how I can’t imagine actually living in a place like Las Vegas. He turns to me and says “Well, actually, I do”. Oops, I will just put my foot right back in my mouth now where it belongs. Sorry dude.
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Isabella said
July 16, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Vegas is something to see at least once in a lifetime, but I agree with you about the consumerism. I am not into gambling or casinos, but it does leave me in awe to see what is lit-up at night
tiffany said
July 17, 2009 at 3:09 am
I think it’s bizarre that people actually LIVE in Vegas. I couldn’t handle it!
Domestic Executive said
July 18, 2009 at 11:01 am
I’ve been lurking on your site for while. This post made me laugh out loud. I went to Vegas about 15 years ago. It terrified me. I got lost trying to get back to my room from the swimming pool and then almost had to sleep in the casino because I couldn’t find my way out. I didn’t spend a cent but watching other people throwing their money away on the table and into machines. It’s wild, wacky and wonderful is a strange frightening sort of way.