Trip in US West Coast - Day 2

Thu, Aug 23, 2007

Today I visited Ceaser's Palace Casino. The building has a roman style, with white pilars and whole-body-statues, plus a touch of egypt as an influence from Cleopatra. I liked it.

Just by crossing the street, it took me to another casino, Flamingo, which has a birds-garden, one of the birds is of course flamingo. It was totally hot outside, I think it was about 40 degree celcius, but the garden was so green and the man-made waterfalls (there were about 10 of them) created a nice atmosfere.

Continued to Madame Tussaud Interactive Wax Museum, it was so exciting. I took a lot of pictures with my pirate, Johnny Depp, Whoopi Goldberg, Elton John, Britney and made J-Lo blushed by touching her famous asset hihihi... There I met a korean girl, Joanne, who happend to be a good photo-partner and friend in Vegas. I am so glad to meet her, because without her help, it would be much slower to take pictures with tripod. For me it was really a blessing, not a coincidence that we met. According to Lonely Planet (the travel guide I borrowed from Oliver), I should have visited Imperial Palace Auto Collection from some famous people, but in the IP casino I met an Indonesian lady who worked there and she suggested me to visit Madame Tussaud instead of the Auto Collection.

In the afternoon, we took some pictures in front of The Venetian's gondola ride. Would like to try it but no boys around :P We then watch a 30-minutes Pirates Show that is held by Treasure Island (for free). This show was really good, it depicted a fight between two pirate groups, females and males. There was dances, bombing actions (complete with real fires) and sinking boat. It was soo good, I cannot believe that they do that every day twice!

Then we went to New York New York, another casino, to take a roller coaster ride, because Joanne lend me her Vegas-pass ticket today. NYNY has a Statue of Liberty, and just across the street one can see MGM Grand's big lion statue and Excalibur's towers which looked just like Disneyland. After a long-long walk, we arrived at Luxor, another casino, which light beamer could be seen from the moon. It has an egypt style with pyramids, obelisk, sphinx and mummy compartments. After taking some pictures, we went to see the Bellagio's fountain show. Bellagio is a 6-stars hotel which has a fountain show every 15 minutes, every time with different song. The sprinklers could rotate and with different water pressure, the water looked like dancing. It was soo beautiful, I could not get enough of seeing it.

Then we went back to Paris Las Vegas, where Joanne stayed. It is a beautiful casino, complete with Arch de Triumph and Eiffel Tower. That night I stayed at her suite, Nice, 3328p, on the 33rd floor of Paris LV (which costed $4000 a night). That was my first time to stay in such an expensive suite. What an exciting experience!