Day 2 in the Casino City

Monday day 2 Vegas and it was a busy day just exploring and organising our wedding that was going to be a surprise to most people.  More about that later...

One thing Darren and I both commented on when we drove through Vegas for the first few days - the roads are so much newer here than San Francisco.  Was such a big difference.  It was like the roads in S.F. had been there for two hundred years and hardly touched whereas Vegas (and out to Boulder City) were like brand new.  

This particular Monday morning we had brekky downstairs...in the Pyramid Cafe.  I must say I definitely don't like the idea of leaving 'tips' on the table when you leave. There was a $5 note floating around on our table when we sat down. I decided to make the effort to take up the mandatory gratuity to the girls desk.  It's a bit different if you are paying by credit card/traveller card then cash wouldn't be left but a lot of the time we did pay cash.   

I am not sure if Mum was saying extra prayers or maybe God was just on our side.... but the weather in Vegas was superb considering only a few weeks ago when we booked our trip it was topping 40!  We were  so lucky.  For those of you who are on Facebook (and most of you are) you would have seen my status referring to the fact that I hate the smoking over here. I suppose it's probably ten years or more since we, in Australia, have been able to smoke in hotels etc. and it was really awful! having your clothes smell of smoke, your hair smell of smoke and more importantly walk around near people smoking their heads off!  Anyway, I guess after a few days we did get used to it.

The Luxor is located at the very end of the southern tip of the Las Vegas Strip.  There is only one other (The Mandalay) further down.  Our hotel and The Mandalay and The Excalibur were all linked by walkways  and shopping malls. Yes, it was confusing for a while - trying to find the correct exit from our hotel! But by the time we were to come home, we knew it all backwards :)  

Back to Monday morning breakfast....on our way back to our room there was a lift full of Chinese people that got out at our level.  We laughed, again, as they were all women (about twelve of them) and then right at the back was a bloke; a very small, shy looking bloke. They were obviously all in the same group. For some reason we felt a bit sorry for this poor soul...