Day 2

We hung around the condo most of the day until around dinner time, then we caught the shuttle down to the strip. Even though it was early evening it was still about 95 to 100 degrees. My plan (if you've ever been on vacation with me, you know I have to have a plan and a list of things to do) was to start off at Monte Carlo (where we were dropped off) and walk all the way down to the Northern end of the strip to Circus Circus to see the free circus and then to Stratosphere to ride one (or all) of the roller coasters, while taking in the sights along the way.

It all started out according to plan.... we ate a good dinner (I had an excellent pear martini) at the ESPN Zone in New York New York. Then we tromped back out into the night. Now, let me just tell you that the maps all make it look like the casinos are right next to each other and a breeze to walk to. That is simply NOT the case. It is MILES from one to the other! We were walking for about an hour, and we were not even one third of the way up the strip! We watched the "Dancing Fountains" at the Bellagio then went into the Forum (a fancy mall) at Caesar's Palace to see the moving statues. Unfortunately it was late, and the statues weren't moving, but Kyla spotted Abercrombie & Fitch on the map, so we were off on a new hike (at least this one was air conditioned) to the OTHER end of the mall. When we got there, the store was sold out of the sweatshirt she wanted, and we couldn't get any of the snotty sales people to wait on us. So, we hiked back out and were almost back to the Monte Carlo when we were overcome by exhaustion and thirst. We stopped in a McDonald's to get drinks and Mark waited in line for about 20 minutes, witnessing a near fight with several drunks. After we were refreshed we hiked, I mean strolled, back to our stop to take the shuttle back to our condo.

After 4 hours on the strip we had dinner, saw a 5 minute light/water show, walked through a mall and had a soda at McDonald's. Not anything to write home about. I had better come up with a new plan for the next day.....

Oh, and I didn't bring my camera because I didn't want to lug it around all night and I sorely regretted it.

Back with more soon! Nancy