Life Through My Eyes

Videos Of Our Las Vegas Adventure

Here are some videos that I took on our latest adventure in Las Vegas

This video was taken in one of the malls.

These videos were taken of the water fountains and the water show that is in front of the Ballagio

This next batch of videos are from the show that is in Ceasars Palace

These videos are of the general Vegas strip area around our hotel

These videos are of the night time water fountain show that is in front of the Bellagio

The wind shifted during this last video and we ended up getting pretty wet. There was a fine mist from the fountains floating everywhere. That is why the video might appear to be somewhat blurred or difficult to see at the end of it.

Heading Home From Our Vegas Adventure

Veronica and I woke up around 2:15AM so that we could check out of our hotel and take a taxi to the airport for our 6AM flight home. Our first leg of the journey was a long one...over 4 hours and we landed in Atlanta. After a layover in Atlanta, we landed in Newport News around 3:30PM and then it was a 2 hour plus drive back home. Veronica and I both had a great time in Las Vegas but we decided that this will most likely be our last trip there. There are so many other places on our list to see. Our next big adventure will be fishing up at Eagle Lake in Ontario Canada and seeing our friends Ken and John up there. This trip will be in September. Hopefully with the assistance of both John and Ken, I can catch a couple of those trophy sized fish that I have been after. If anyone can help me get them, these two guys can.

I somehow came back from Vegas with a little money

In the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport on Concourse B Adjacent to Gate B15, I came across this neat business. I know that in Japan, they have sleeping pods/day rooms for the weary traveler. I believe they are called kaminshitsu in Japanese. For a price you can also get a shower cubicle with a vanity mirror. The one in Atlanta is called Minute Suites..The Traveler's Retreat. I spoke to the person working the front desk and was told that this company is not a franchise type of company and that the company is looking to expand into other airports...especially the airport in Chicago. Below is a card that was at the front desk with additional information. For more information about this company and its offerings, please visit http://www.minutesuites.com/

Day 5 Of Our Las Vegas Adventure

Well today was our last day in Las Vegas. We had a few more hotels that we wanted to check out plus we had tickets to our last Cirque Du Soleil show... O, which was at the Bellagio. Our tickets were for the 7:30PM show. After spending the day walking the Vegas strip, we got something to eat and then went to the Bellagio to see the show.This show was very different from other Cirque Du Soleil shows that we had previously seen. It was different mainly because much of the show had a pool and/or water features to it. Overall, it was a really good show. After the show we took the opportunity to take some night photos of the strip along with some videos of both the Vegas strip and of the water fountain show that is held out front of the Bellagio. After taking in the water fountain show, we headed back to our room to finish packing our luggage and to go to bed early. We needed to get up around 2:45AM so that we could get ourselves ready for our 6AM flight out of Las Vegas. I have not mentioned anything about our gambling adventures while we were in Vegas. In every hotel that we visited, we dropped a dollar into one slot machine. We didn't win anything that way. We did spend a little more time in a few other hotel casinos along with the casino in the Monte Carlo. Other than winning $39 playing some type of fishing slot machine, we were down a few bucks.On this last day in Vegas, we spent more time in our hotel casino and it paid off for us.I ended up playing a slot machine called Deal Or No Deal which is based on the television game show. It was a fun and interactive type of machine, which I like better than the ones that you just pull the lever or press a button.The slot machine I was playing was a penny machine. The machine ended up paying off for about an hour. We ended up winning about $100 from this machine.I cam real close to hitting it big time. I had about five 7s across the pay line and the sixth 7 was just below the pay line. Has that last 7 been on the pay line, I would have won a bundle but isn't that typical of Las Vegas...almost hit it big time, could've, would've and should've.

Everything looked different at night time.

Veronica told me that this was the place she saw on tv that had a $1,000.00 sundae. This sundae had gold leaf sprinkled on it.

Click on the photo to make it bigger. Check out those prices...very typical of Vegas dining.

This is the Rio Hotel, where Penn and Teller perform

We found this shrine outside of Caesars Palace. We said a prayer and then lit an incense and placed it in the sand that was in front of the shrine

This is a photo of part of the Caesars Palace Hotel complex

The Ballagio

This statue of Siegfried and Roy was between the Mirage and the Treasure Island Hotels

I believe that this lion exhibit was in the Mirage

And here I thought that what was done in Vegas, stayed in Vegas. It might be hard to tell which way I was looking but you can use your imagination and probably be correct. I should know better than to leave the camera with Veronica.