Fri, Aug 24, 2007
Today we woke up late and started the day with slow pace. Joanne and me decided to take a brunch at Le Village, a buffet restaurant which is so good, that we have to line up in a queue for 30 minutes to get a table. The price for breakfast was only $17, yet it had a large options for breakfast, from any kind of egg, pastries, ham, soup and salad bar, etc. But since we were at 10.45 a.m. and at 11 a.m. they changed the menu to lunch I could also taste some chicken, beef, fish, big prawns and some desserts in french culinary. I was totally full and satisfied :D
Today was Joanne's last day in Vegas, so I decided to accompany her in LV. We first headed to Hilton LV, because Joanne wanted to watch Star Trek Experience, but we went to the wrong Hilton (Hilton Grand Vacation Club). So it was cancelled. Then Joanne went up to Stratosphere Tower to see the view of Vegas at day time, while I was waiting because I wanted to see it at night. Then we went to Mirage, to make a photo session in the indoor tropical garden hihihi... There are lots of high limits in Mirage, e.g. the High Limit Lounge and High Limit Slots. I saw a minimum limit of $100 in card game gambling and it was not in a high limit lounge, so I wonder how high was the high? It was a real luxurious casino! We continued the journey to see the interior of Bellagio, another luxus casino. The interior was definitely beautiful. Then we watched the fountain again before Joanne left, back to Miami, where she stayed during her internship in US. I was a bit sad as she left because it was so nice having a trip partner.
Alone, I went up to Paris Eiffel Tower with a free ticket I got today along with a member card of Paris LV casino (which I didn't use at all). The night view from the top was so captivating. One can see thousands of shimmering lights of LV's casinos and watch Bellagio fountain show from above which is even more beautiful in night lights. This 1/2 scale, 540 foot (164.6 m) tall replica of the Eiffel Tower really served as the best spot to see LV's landscape at night. In my personal opinion it was far better than Stratosphere Tower which was higher (I visited it some time later). I would stay up there more if I had not had to leave for the last show of Star Trek at Hilton LV. But the second attempt to see the show was also fail, I was late for 15 min eventhough I already took monorail to avoid traffic at the Strip :(
I went back to my hotel feeling disappointed, took a short nap for two hours before wake up again at 3 a.m. to walk along Freemont Street, where the casinos installed thousands of neon bulbs and took lots of photos because it was not as crowed as it was at midnight time. Taking pics with tripod is really difficult when there are too many people walking by. There were Binion's, Golden Nugget, The Plaza, Golden Goose, Jillian's big genie lamp, a big high heel shoes full with bulbs. There was also once a neon museum on this street, but it moved to another street, so I only saw some pieces of their left collections in a now movie theater. But that made my night and I went back to the hotel at 4.30 a.m.
PS. LV's main streets are safe thanks to lots of police patrolling days and nights.
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