Las Vegas!

Seems that one has to put an exclamation mark with the title of Las Vegas.  We have definitely gone through culture shock in the past 2 days.  And we have enjoyed camping here at the KOA.  It's been very warm, 96 - 98 each day, but cooler at night.  We have enjoyed the pool as well as the shuttle service to "see the sights".  The first day we planned to go to "the strip" however the bus available was going to "downtown" so off we went to the Fremont experience.  Quite honestly, we enjoyed it more than the strip.  The Fremont area is  several blocks of the older casinos, with only pedestrian traffic and a high "umbrella" giving some relief from the sun.  There were many street performers, and beggars as well as skimpily clad women and men providing photo ops.  Also there were zip liners sailing high above doing superman poses.  It really was quite fun during the day - probably would have been crazy at night.

Now you can see what Laurie and I look like after 2 days here.

Today, we went to "the Strip" and exhausted ourselves wandering up and down the Boulevard.  It was very hot, and all the casinos were different themed, but all very noisy, smokey,and vast.  We did go up the Eiffel tower (exactly half the size of the real, Paris ET) and could see Bellagio's fountains which performed a song while we watched from above.

We made it as far south as the MGM casino, and here is Laurie with his pet Lion.  

Then were saturated, couldn't really take any more casinos so headed back to catch the shuttle, have a swim and organize for tomorrow's journey to Death Valley.