here's the entrance to our lovely home on the vegas strip, the MGM Grand. The mayor of Las Vegas was on the Daily Show last week and he talked about how he wanted Las Vegas to be like Disney World for adults, and that's pretty much what it's like. I mean, everything is themed, and incredibly over the top. I like the MGM Grand because it's supposed to be like old Hollywood, but there was something fun about going to NY land too:
They definitely took a lot of liberties with it but I still felt right at home walking around.
And it's been a while but the Paris casino took me back as well:
Everything was just so fantastical, there's something amazing to see around every turn. The shops and things are pretty cool, but it's nothing that we don't have in NYC so that wasn't really too impressive, but the architecture of the actual casinos is really cool. Everything sparkles and just when you think you've seen it all you get to the top of an escalator and see something unbelievable. Like this restaurant in one of the casinos:
Seriously, that's a restaurant. The seating was inside that weirdo wooden structure. So fun! We didn't actually have a reservation at our hotel until Sunday but we arrived on Saturday night so we ended up staying up all night wandering around and gambling. It was really fun until about 5 in the morning when the only other people that were awake were really sad and all you want to do is go to sleep. However, we did get to see the strip at dawns early light, when everyone else was either glued to their game screen or passed out with a hooker.
The top of the pyramid lights up at night and shoots a beam up in to the sky. It's a great point of reference for finding your bearing when you stumble out of a casino after drinking a meter long glass of margarita.
But really everything about the vegas experience can be summed up by this machine:
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