Blogs from Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, North America - page 141

Our previous blog concluded with our last day in Los Angeles, Venice Beach and Santa Monica. On Monday the 31st of July we rose early in the hope of getting our motorhome earlier than expected and heading to Las Vegas. Little did we know that it would not be until 5pm that afternoon, after spending 3.5hrs at Moturis Motorhome Rentals that we would be finally on our way. Despite arriving early to collect the motorhome, due to not enough staff, and our previously ordered bicycles not being ready it took far longer than expected to organise. Chris took some photos of the motorhome before we bombarded it with all of our luggage and once we finally signed all the paperwork and collected our bicycles (and the additional items we were supposed to get included in the ... read more

Grace had found an incredible deal at the Venetian in Vegas. She hadn't been there since before she was legal and I'd been on the road a lot for work. So we thought would be a good idea to go and spend some time together. And we had a great time. Ate some good food, hung out at the pool, walked the strip, gambled and did some shopping. The best by far was eating at Lutece, a french resturant at the Venetian. The food and service were the best I've ever experienced. If you have the dollars I would recommed it highly. ... read more

Viva Las Vegas The first thing that became apparent when stepping off the plane in Las Vegas was that this town is serious about exploiting its gambling licence at every opportunity - pokers machines in the airport departure lounge! The second thing was that if you’re not gambling your money away there is plenty of people to hand it over to in the form of a tip. Checking in to the MGM Grand was an absolute delight - FYI, the largest hotel in the world, as everyone from the hotel porter to the cab driver was compelled to tell us. Everything at the MGM was large - our room, our beds - even the marble bathroom - yippee! We found one of the 5 hotel pools pretty quickly due to the fact that we were ... read more

The company that hosts me has a datacenter i Los Angeles. Usually we just remote administrate the servers down there, but this time we had to go down to move som stuff around. Anyways, Marcos, my CTO(Chief Technical Officer) has a small plane, so he decided we should fly down in that. In addition to me and Marcos, Dave and Gabe was coming along. Dave is our sysadmin, while Gabe is a friend of Marcos that was going to Las Vegas, so we decided to drop him of there. After lengthy weight calculations on Marcos' part, he had us meet him at Palo Alto airport at 18.00 Sunday evening. You see, the problem with small aircraft like this, is not only the weight restrictions (they can only take som much load), but the balance is equally ... read more

In May, Chris and I took a trip out to Vegas, so we could finally take my mom's advice on staying at the Venetian. It was my first time out there since I was legal, but we made sure to go to Circus Circus to jog my memory of Vegas. I lost a lot of money, did a lot of shopping and had the most wonderful meal at Lutece (it still gives Chris a heart attack when he thinks of how much the meal cost). I wanted to go to a drive thru chapel and get our pictures taken in front of it, then send it to our friends, but Chris didn't think that was funny! ... read more