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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Bill and Carol Visit Las Vegas

On March 8 Bill and Carol flew to Las Vegas for a week's visit. A nice five hour flight from Philadelphia on US Air. We walked off the plane into the airport and were immediately faced with rows of slot machines. This is a great thing, especially when waiting for a flight to board.
We stayed at Planet Hollywood. We had a nice room on the 37th floor with a great view of the Bellagio and the water fountain show, which was right across the street, and the Eiffel Tower was next door.
Neither of us are into the casinos and games of chance as we have proven over and over again that we never win anything, but Bill did win $100 on a $1 slot machine and $3.00 on the penny slot machines. As usual we managed to lose all of that and pretty much broke even for the trip.
Las Vegas has lots of shows, however, and we took in at least one every night. In the afternoons we walked around to other hotel/casinos and took in the different themes each had, visited lots of shops, and did things tourists do.
It surprised us how far apart the hotels are. On the map they look like they are right next to each other but each hotel's property is about two blocks wide and there are smaller shops between many of the hotels, so it is a real walk to get from one to another. Once inside the hotels you can walk for a half mile or more just in the shopping areas.
We were both pleasantly surprised at how well behaved the crowds of people were. There were lots of young folks there and they were having a good time, but we did not see any problems at any time. The crowds probably tripled in size on Friday, Saturday and Sunday but and were having fun but without causing problems.
We were also pleasantly surprised to see how much there was for young kids to do. Every hotel had some kind of show, aquarium, rides, eating places, etc., that were there with kids in mind. It is much more of a family town than one might think.
We had another five hour flight back to Philly, had a great view of the Grand Canyon as we left Las Vegas.
It was a great trip and we had lots of fun.
Carol likes to dress up when we go out.

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