Las Vegas

Las Vegas was an experience! It really does have to be seen to be believed - the place is total fantasy. When we arrived we had to walk over a mile to the hostel, Alan keep making us walk miles to hostels with our backpacks on, if I don't arrive back in the UK a size 10 (haha) then there really is no hope for me. The greyhound bus driver, who drove us to Las Vegas, was quite amusing - he was taking the mickey out of the british ( something about a brit walking into a bar in San Francisco and asking for some fags!)

The Hostel was pretty average, so we went to Fremont St ( which is the "original Vegas") for the first night, had a whopper of a hamburger (the american portions are huge, we lived on one meal a day) and then tried a bit of gambling. I won abour 10 dollars (5 quid) but put it all back in the slots. We also drank a football of beer (it was an British rugby ball) and watched the overhead light display in the Fremont Mall. It was absolutely freezing though.

On saturday we bought a 24hr bus ticket for the strip ( Las Vegas boulevard) and it took over an hour to get from one end of the strip to the other. We then got out at New York, New York Hotel and Casino and had a mooch around, with our mouths wide open. It was massive and had restaurants, shopping malls, ice cream shops, gambling, bars etc all under one roof - you would never need to go out.

After we escaped, we some how ended up in the M&M factory shop, where we bought a fivers worth of M&M's, in our favorite colours ( I got peanut and chocolate M&M's in pink! Alan got black and white).

We also went to the Bellagio, Flamingo, Stratosphere and Tropicana casinos. In the evening, we watched the Bellagio fountains, which were amazing and fabulous. We were a bit cold then, so decided to go for a beer to warm up, but the barman asked me for ID ( me being so young and all) but I had left it back at the hostel - so he refused to sell me a beer!!!!!!!!!

On saturday, we went to the Bodies excibition at the Tropicana casino. We tried to go about 4 years ago when the excibition was in London but the queue was about 5 miles long so we went to the pub instead. It was fascinating seeing real human bodies, the tissue fluid ( natural water) had been replaced with a silicon polymer so appeared plasticy. It had a fantastic fetal development display.

To all my PICU chicks - I am 100% still a Jones. The wedding chapels were incredibly tacky and Vegas is very unromantic. Alan hates Vegas!