Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Las Vegas 2007



I found Las Vegas to be a wonderful place to visit.
We stayed at the Sarah Hotel and Casino.
The time difference from Scotland is eight hours behind and it took me a good three days to adjust. I was sitting around at midnight wondering why I was so tired and realized it was 8:00am back home.
When I came to, I tried to get onto the internet in my hotel room as it had a cordless keypad and internet TV. Boy was that a mistake, it took me just under one hour to access my email and when I went to deleate some that I had read... it deleated the lot.
So, my sincere appologies to all my friends that I had arranged to meet up with, I simply saved your details on my email and thought that I could just log on and retrieve your details.
I also missed out on an internet marketing seminar conducted by some of the biggest internet marketers around, which was a major bummer as I had travelled half way accross the world with this event as the main attraction.
However, my mother enjoyed the extra time spent with me shopping and sightseeing.
The images below show the walkway from The Sarah Hotel and Casino to the monorail with the Stratosphere in the background and the other side with the Hilton Hotel in the background.
( sorry they are a bit dark.) You can even see me at the Sarah pool area, I managed a couple of hours sunbathing.
I found that I really needed my hire car as Las Vegas is not really wheelchair friendly, sure there are elevators to gain access to the monorail and walkways but main places the likes of Ceasars Palace and the shopping center were difficult to get to and as for the cobbles.




Biggest dissapointments were The David Copperfield show in the MGM Grand.
Performed one big illusion and just done enough to call it a show.
( Hay! I've been to Disney Land in Florida at least 5 or 6 times.)
I expected much more.
AND
The winner of ABC TV's The Next Big Thing, Trent Carlini.
As my Mother is an Elvis fan, she has all 31 movies, every concert ever recorded, numerous interviews by all who knew him, a concert with his voice and the original band members playing live 25 years after his death, unreleased footage of Lisa Marie performing a duet with her father on a large screen behind her, a gizillion books, pins, a clock, commerative plaque, plates and I am afraid to open the refridgator all the way as it coud tip over with the weight of all the ELVIS fridge magnets.
So, I'm sorry Trent but you just did not make the mark for my mother and myself.


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