Leaving Las Vegas

Yuma smells like flowers. We've been all over this town today and everywhere, it smells like flowers, but looks like a desert. I don't get it.

I digress.

Last week we drove through the Mojave Desert...


...to Las Vegas!

We stayed at Circus Circus and it was huge. We had to walk through two casinos and a shopping mall to get to our room. Everywhere there were SPARKLY LIGHTS and LOUD NOISES and people accosting us, trying to give us "free" whatevers.

We did go to one of those time-share scams and it wasn't too bad. It took up a morning but we got free breakfast while we were there, $50 to spend at any of our hotel's restaurants, and five free tickets to the Comedy Club at the Riviera Hotel across the road from our hotel. Our friend Kristie, who was staying at the same hotel as us, kept trying to get the time share people to offer her stuff, but they didn't want her because she was single. Weird, huh? Mark tried to go with her but they check IDs for proof that you live together. Oh well. At least some guy tried to pick her up on Fremont street the day before she left. ;)


I could list all the stuff we did, but all I really need to tell you is that we were busy busy busy the entire time - we saw the sights, gambled, saw a bunch of great shows, won a bunch of stuffed animals in the midway in Circus Circus, and didn't even have the time to get enough sleep while we were there.

Las Vegas is surreal and mind-boggling. One interesting thing I noted was that, although you can buy incredibly cheap alcohol (margaritas for $1, for example) at any time, day or night, and walk around in the streets drinking it, we didn't see any rowdy drunken behaviour at all. Interesting.

Here is the pictures portion of this entry:

Like I said, we saw some shows.



We went to Quark's Bar, and the Enterprise was in orbit there.


At the bar, the boys drank a Borg Sphere.


General Las Vegas stuff.






We're out of Las Vegas now and in Yuma, Arizona, which is a border town. We're catching up on errands before we head to Mexico tomorrow. It should be fun!