What happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas....esp if you're blogging it!

WOOOO! Las Vegas baby!!!

How much does this place rock?!! Loud, neon, tacky & prostitution is legal. What more could you ask for? (Just kidding about the last bit, actually don't think it's legal but you wouldn't know that being here!) We stayed in 1 of the hotels on the Strip called the Stratosphere which was cool. It had a pool, hot tub, casino, tower, revolving restaurant, 3 rollercoasters & a nightclub! It was mentally hot too - though only by our low standards apparently as all the locals insisted 90F is actually pretty chilly! Nutters.

Spent the 1st few days lying by the pool, gorging at the all-you-can-eat buffets, drinking cocktails (NB its a dangerous game drinking in posh bars, putting your card behind the bar and ordering drinks with no advertised price!) & touring all the big casinos & their attractions! There are something like 1700 licensed gambling places in Vegas so it was a lot to get round! Saw the water display at the Bellagio, the horrendous rollercoaster & awesome buildings at New York New York, the sharks at Mandalay Bay (shudder), the canals, gondolas & marketplace (!) at the Venetian, the Volcano at the Mirage, acrobats at Circus Circus, as well as Wynn, Treasure Island, Sahara & MGM Grand. Felt very Ocean's 11! We tried our hand at the gambling scene & quickly discovered we suck. Did the slots, roulette & had the rules of Craps explained about 20 times before the dealer got exasperated with us & kindly pointed us in the direction of the nearest bar as we'd probably like it better there! Rudeness.
Also visited the 'Little White Chapel' downtown - ie site of the weddings of Frank Sinatra & Mia Farrow, Bruce Willis & Demi Moore, & of course le Britney! You can get a drive-thru wedding for $40 (about 20 quid)! Apparently about 300 couples get married in Vegas every bloody day - don't worry neither me nor Lucy were included in this statistic! We went on all our hotels rides which are stupidly crazy - 2 of them: Insanity and X-scream, hang you off the side of the tower 900 feet in the air. Oh. my. god. The other one shoots you in the air over 1000 ft. Good views. Not that you'd freakin' notice!

Had a fantastically extravagant meal in the revolving restaurant & did our big night out (with typically poor foresight!) on our last night. Much Tequila and Red Bull was consumed. Absolute carnage followed. Discovered that people take the 'what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas' motto WAAAAAY too seriously. Come on dude, you're married, not to mention butt ugly! We thought it was just a jokey slogan! Lots of fun but sadly I have few memories of being in one of the 'top 5 clubs/celeb hangouts' in Vegas. Yeah yeah whatever. Fully felt the effects the next day and flying in said condition is not fun!

Definately want to go back and make that million!!!

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