Viva Las Vegas!

Today the seven of us woke up and headed right back out to catch the Duce again. We rode it down to the other side of the strip and got off at the Tropicana hotel. We were pretty hungry and in search of another large buffet, so we quickly moved on to the MGM Grand Hotel. MGM came through for us and had a huge and delicious buffet waiting. We took our time stuffing our faces before we went looking around the hotel. There were lion cubs in an exhibit playing with the trainers. Apparently these lions are decedents of the original MGM studios lion (the one that roars at the beginning of the movies).

During this trip, Lance was very interested in the various restroom facilities. It seems that most of them are pretty nice. I took a video of one in MGM Grand to show the boys how much better women's restrooms are.

Next down the strip was Paris. I think I would like to stay here if I were to come back again. It has the perfect location and was pretty cool inside. Chris decided to bet with "real money" here at the three card poker tables while the rest of us tried for free drinks at the 1/2 penny slots. We succeeded in getting free drinks as well as in not spending much money. The hotel is very interesting because there is a 1/2 scale replica of the Eiffel Tower outside that you can actually go up in. The casino was made to look like Paris on a sunny day. Kristen was told by her boyfriend to bet black #2 on the Roulette table. Black #2 did not exist, so she bet on red and 2 and sadly did not come out ahead. It was fun to see someone bet with more than 1/2 pennies, though.

We skipped over a bunch of less interesting looking hotels on our way down the strip. We did stop in Bill's Gamblin' Hall and Saloon so that Lance could use the restroom. We ended up leaving Chris and Lance there for a while so that they could gamble at $5 minimum tables (most tables in the hotels we went to were at least $10 minimum). The rest of us headed onto the Venetian.

There is a canal that runs outside of the Venetian and then through the inside. You can even ride a gondola just like in Venice, Italy. The Canal shops run along the canal and are made to look like shops along a street in Venice. We ended up the the casino where we played the slots for a bit before moving on.


The final stop on our list was the one we had be waiting for the most, the Wynn. It is Las Vegas' only five star, five diamond resort. It as a waterfall in the front, and we found another one that looks like a wall of water that changes colors. We headed down to the casino to play the penny slots once again.

Chip, a homeless taxi driver, was playing the slots next to us and told us we could get $10 free dollars to use on the slots if we signed up for a Wynn card. Naturally, we all did that and ended up spending the rest of our night playing penny slots with free money and drinking plenty of free drinks. It was the perfect end to a great trip.