Other Vegas Stuff

Here's some random bits from Vegas that didn't make their own post...

I laughed out loud at the airport when I saw this sign:

Coming to an airport near you

I guess the local government wants to cash in on the "let's go to Vegas and get married" crowd! Why should the wedding chapels get all the revenue?

My brother and I did an escape room. It was at the Escapology in Vegas (the chain to which I have gone before). Since I was there, we did the Vegas Hangover room. We were locked in an apartment after a rough night. In the story recap, we found out that we lost the wedding rings for our best friend. The night before we had gambled them away to a woman who never loses. Being a good sport (of sorts), she let us have an hour to get through several puzzles to find the rings hidden in the apartment. We didn't succeed but we made it pretty far through the puzzles. One particularly difficult puzzle involved clocks and cards with some more challenging mathematical variables than we were ready for. We had a good time even so.

After the fact

The Westgate Casino has some random interesting things, including a statue of Elvis, a display of dry-aging beef for one of their restaurants, and the last remnant of Star Trek: The Experience.

Elvis has not left the building!

Only thing more boring than watching paint dry

They never replaced this Star Trek doorway

The strip has all sorts of fun architecture and displays along it. Treasure Island used to have a pirate show out front with full-size ships from which the pirates performed.

Pirate ship by Treasure Island

Venice is represented by the Venetian with a canal bridge and the clock tower from Saint Mark's Square.

Putting the Venice in the Venetian

Caesars Palace has a lot of Italian and specifically Roman remakes. Here's the Trevi Fountain. I guess if you toss a coin in here, you'll come back to Vegas.

Trevi Fountain, now an entrance to the Forum

Circus Circus has a fun if old-school look to it. It must have a million light bulbs for its various signs.

Circus Circus

This attempt to hide a cell tower is creative.

Which are real palm trees?

One night we went to the Rio to see a show at the Comedy Cellar. Afterward, we had a steak up on the fifty-first floor. The restaurant has an outdoor bar with a view of the city that's impressive.

South end of the Strip

Casinos-a-million

The Rio also has mini-golf. But not just any mini-golf. The course was Kiss-themed. Black-light was the only light and the eighteenth hole was what you would expect.

Rockin' mini-golf

The course

Eighteenth hole

Grandpa gave me four lucky quarters to play in a quarter slot machine. We couldn't find any machines that would take quarters, so I put a dollar in this machine and played four times. My dollar wasn't lucky like the quarters.

No payout here

I bet Grandpa would have liked this one

We took in a show while we were there. Discount tickets are available at Fashion Show (that's the mall with a flying saucer overhead) for day-of or next-few-days performances. In tribute to the blog, we went to see Zombie Burlesque, which was cheesy but fun.

A theater with a lot of shows

Elevator to the show

We had a good Mexican meal at a restaurant not far from the Strip. The Original Lindo Michoacan has the typical decor and fabulous frozen margaritas. I had the carne a la coca-cola which was very tasty, along with a coconut margarita. Yum!

Other Lindo Michoacans are available, but why bother?