Vegas is Awesome!

This place is just awesome.  It's unbelievable.  How do you describe it?  You love it here the minute you arrive!  It's such a buzz.  You feel so alive.  The glitz, glamour, lights.  The size of the place.  The imitations of real places and objects.  The Eiffel Tower, French streets with sky overhead (it's an effective-looking painted ceiling), the reconstructed indoor places made to look like they're outside, the indoor streets, the indoor boulevards, the indoor trees, the indoor beer gardens, the indoor European building facades, the indoor sky and clouds, the indoor outdoor street cafés, the Egyptian pyramid, the massive hotels, massive casinos, massive shopping areas, the choice of where to eat and what to eat, the buffets and cafés, the Gordon Ramsey eating area, the Brazillian BBQ restaurant, the throng of people, merchants, tourists, the commercialism, the merchandise, the souvenirs, the beers, the good deals, the discounts, the sales, the shows, the slot machines, the roulette, the black jack, the craps, oh my God THIS PLACE IS AWESOME!!

And this blog post does not do the place justice!

We arrived at Las Vegas Airport at about 2.25 pm.

We found slot machines inside the airport!

We found our hotel: the Marriott

This is our hotel lobby.

This is our sitting room in our apartment.

The kitchen and sitting room..

The kitchen...

From our sitting room looking into the bedroom..

The bedroom...

Part of our view.  We're on the 35th floor.

Some images of Vegas..

..some more..

Inside the Magic Mile Shops..

In the Magic Mile..

The Eiffel Tower in 'Vegas.

This is the lobby of the Paris hotel.  I think it may be meant to resemble the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.

A typical thing to find in 'Vegas!

After arriving at our hotel, we settled in, and then went walking.  'Vegas is very reminiscent of Dubai.  It is so like Dubai.  A city carved out of a hot, dusty desert; temperatures soaring outside; artificial, controlled temperatures inside; massive indoor areas with wide appeal; tall, impressive buildings; much glitz and glamour.  The difference between Dubai and here is this is 100 times better, and it's just so awesome.

We found a couple of casinos.  Currently, Jean is on a roulette table under the Eiffel Tower, near some French flags and the Montmartre.  I'm elsewhere in Paris under some rotunda swallowing an American lager called Third Shift Amber Lager.  I've tasted better.  The Newcastle Brown Ale is much better.  Hang on...I've just remembered I'm gluten-intolerant.  Oh what the hell.  This is 'Vegas!  Ooh, I can hear someone's won a lot of money over there somewhere.  And a crowd cheered.  Hope it was Jean.  I might play black jack later..