back from vegas
Jul. 10th, 2010 11:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
intertribalMe and the headless, armless Goddess of Victory in front of Caesars Palace (I named a character after her in high school, before I realized a shoe company beat me to it). Uploaded more photos here.
It was 105 degrees and amusing, for the most part. I did think the Moving Statues at Caesars were ridiculously kitschy, but the volcano at my hotel (the Mirage) was surprisingly awesome, as were the Bellagio fountains (maybe that's not so much a surprise). The Venetian was really, really fragrant, the Luxor was lolzy, the Excalibur had a lot of fast food joints (I see why Jennifer wanted to die when she was assigned the Excalibur as inspiration on Top Chef last season), and the MGM Grand was confusingly large. We were sharing the Mirage with the West Coast Dance Explosion's national finals, so the casino floor was half old people on slot machines and half pre-pubescent girls in really heavy makeup and glamour bikinis.
The food was good.
It was 105 degrees and amusing, for the most part. I did think the Moving Statues at Caesars were ridiculously kitschy, but the volcano at my hotel (the Mirage) was surprisingly awesome, as were the Bellagio fountains (maybe that's not so much a surprise). The Venetian was really, really fragrant, the Luxor was lolzy, the Excalibur had a lot of fast food joints (I see why Jennifer wanted to die when she was assigned the Excalibur as inspiration on Top Chef last season), and the MGM Grand was confusingly large. We were sharing the Mirage with the West Coast Dance Explosion's national finals, so the casino floor was half old people on slot machines and half pre-pubescent girls in really heavy makeup and glamour bikinis.
The food was good.
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Date: 2010-07-13 01:28 pm (UTC)Yeah, I don't blame you, and that is kind of what it's like (except for the high-roller Super Cool people, who are mostly invisible unless you're eating at a $50/steak restaurant). I'm planning on going back next summer with some friends, but I'm still at the age where "let's-go-get-drunk" is an actual activity. But when I was there I kept thinking, wow, if aliens were doing surveillance of us they'd be all "desert, desert, desert, nothing to see here - whoa, what is that tiny cluster of extremely high activity? Is that their research center? Oh, no, wait. It's an amusement park." And they'd be like, "let's go to the next planet."
I think I read a review of that once (the person was like "I don't understand anything!") - it does sound interesting.