vegas baby

after travelling through the joshua tree national park, the mojave desert and across the hoover dam, we arrived in vegas around 7PM. i had never been to vegas before so was a little excited to see it and i was not dissapointed. the hotels on the strip are very big and very shiny and some are just silly but still interesting. after checking in to where we would be staying for a couple of nights, the mock-egyptian luxor hotel and casino, we headed out and walked along the strip occasionally popping into a random casino just to see how kitsch they were. that was it for the rest of the evening really.







the next day we headed out to some of the outlet malls in vegas and we spent most of the afternoon there picking up bargains. it really is a great place to shop and if you are not too fussy, there are lots of bargains to be had. its much better than new york for shopping which seems overpriced in comparison. as the evening drew in, we headed back to our hotel and then got something to eat at the buffet at the luxor. after that i suggested to my friend that we should go out and maybe go to a bar or something but he said he was going to stay in. he was just no fun at all.

he had been to vegas a couple of times before and by the sound of it, on his previous 2 visits, he had gone out and spent a couple of thousand dollars in a day on lap dances and hookers. maybe he thought thats what i meant when i said we should go out in vegas, but thats not what i had in mind at all. he didn't want to go to bars because he didn't want to get shitfaced and now he didn't want to go out in vegas because i suspect he didn't want to do the whole, "get a lapdance, get a hooker, drop a couple of grand" thing. very childish indeed and rather silly not being able to go out and able to enjoy a couple of drinks in a bar and maybe talk to a member of the opposite sex with out wondering if, or how much she charges for a blowjob. grow up dude.



i headed out on my own and just went into a couple of casino's and up and down the strip. i also saw the fountains at the bellagio which were spectacular and i went back to the hotel a couple of hours later. vegas is a nice place but its the kind of place you would spend a weekend at, rather than go on holiday and stay there for a week.

whislt driving to vegas we had been listening to the radio. there was an r'n'b, rap, pop station that played a song i really liked. that day i had mostly been listening to lil' wayne - lollipop