Vegas again!

18 January 2014

I’m in Vegas again for the first time in seven years! My highschool friend Amanda heard that William Shatner is doing a one night solo stage show so we are going on Monday night. I landed Saturday about 1pm, and we went to the new city center portion to Aria for Nutella brioche and some catchup chat, then shopping on the way to her house where I met her friend Vicki.

It was already late afternoon after the shopping, so we headed to Fremont Street for the evening, seeing the world’s largest golden nugget and the shark tank water slide at the Golden Nugget, dinner & drinks at kitschy decor Park on Fremont where I got to sit in a teal chair, classic arcade games at Insert Coins, and lots of people watching. Obviously our age is now a target demographic since the live bands on the outside stages were playing all 80s covers!

I’d never seen Fremont Street which is why we went. I like all the lights of the classic Vegas casinos even though I can’t walk through them because of all the smoke. What is most impressive is the giant curved LED screen above the whole street that shows animation all the time, then a special show every hour. Very cool!

About 10:15 after the 10pm show we headed for the Strip because they knew a steampunk restaurant had opened at Mandalay Bay. We drove down Las Vegas Blvd to see the sights but it took a while in the traffic, so we got to Mandalay Bay right after last call for RX Boiler Room. No drinks or food for us but I took enough photos that I was satisfied. Their lab window looks a lot like my laboratory libations Halloween display, but putting brass goggles on a crystal skull bottle was pretty clever. Since Vicki had never seen the Mix bathroom with the view of the city we had to go up there too.

We strolled through the shops where I found a jaunty angled mini top hat fascinator I couldn’t resist, walked through the Luxor since they removed a lot of the Egyptian themed decor from the casino floor, then finally home again for the night about 12:30am. Fun day and photos are below!

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