The next two days were spent wandering around exploring, checking out the hotels and the sights. The first day we headed south on the Strip, and saw, amongst others, the MGM Grand (has a lion enclosure inside it), New York New York (pictured), Excalibur (looks like a castle), Luxor (the pyramid), and Mandalay Bay. The MGM Grand is supposedly the biggest hotel in the world, and owned by the same guy that owns the MGM movies. Each hotel is quite different, and we managed to go in to most of them. As all hotels are casinos as well, you can wander around freely in all of them and no one bats an eyelid. The New York New York has a rollercoaster going around it - there are also rollercoaster around the top of the Stratosphere (think of rollercoasters around the top of the sky tower and you get the picture). Crazy Vegas.
The second day we walked north, and saw the Venetian (pictured), The Mirage, Treasure Island, and Caesars Palace. Caesars is massive, and if I didn't know that MGM Grand was the biggest, I would say that Caesars would be. I think the difference is that Caesars has a shopping mall in it, so it that will be part of it's bulk. The Venetian comes complete with gondola rides, Venice style.
The inside of these hotels are just as impressive as the outside, in most cases. This is the inside of Caesar's Palace.
We also took a drive out to the Hoover Dam, and it proved that once you've seen one dam, you've seen them all. It's huge. And that's about it.
It's been pretty hot in Vegas, 40 degrees and up. Even at night it's hot. Lots of people out wearing very little, but have the feeling they'd do it anyway in winter.
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