Well we’ve finally arrived here in Las Vegas.
The flight down from Vancouver was fairly smooth and relaxing except the decent into the Vegas airport was kinda bumpy for the most part. We had a mix crowd on the plane down which included some seniors, some middle age and of course some 20 something guys who for a 2 hour flight manage to have 6 drinks (Psst, it’s better if you moderate the amount you have, you still have the rest of the evening to get through). My luggage of course took about 20 minutes to make it’s way to the unloading belt and I was surprised how long it took to get everyone’s luggage out for only 92 people on the flight.
Instead of taking a taxi or limo to the hotel (and trying to save some money), we took the shuttle bus which only cost us $6.50 each (nice bargin). Little did we know that this small bargin would take us about 1 hour to get to the hotel as we waved around the strip dropping off othe passengers to their respective hotels. We were the second last to get off that shuttle and from the zig-zagging we did I was getting lost.
We finally arrived at our home away from home and quickly checked in and went to our room. I was so happy to see that we actually got a nice room. I was scared that we would have gotten a room that wasn’t renovated yet, as Treasure Island, or TI as it is known here now, has gone through some heavy renovations that were to be finished by this month (and we know how well they all are at meeting that deadline).
At any rate we quickly got changed and headed downstairs to view the casino and get some food into our system. Since we were both hungry and didn’t want to walk around and figure out where to eat, we decided to eat at the buffet at the hotel. It wasn’t bad for a buffet, but it was a buffet. We finished our meal and headed down the strip for a walk. I didn’t bring my camera with me as I had to charge the battery and wouldn’t have had enough time to get a full charge on it. We took Russ’ camera instead, but alas he forgot his USB cable so I cannot upload the photos we took with it. You will have to settle for the photos I took with my iPhone for now. 
I was surprised to see how many people there were on the street. With all this doom and gloom going on in the US I really expected less people. Granted it is the weekend here and it just might be the Friday crowd for now.
I got to walk through some interesting hotels and casinos. All are amazing in their own special way and the sheer size of them are to behold.
Tomorrow will be another day of walking and maybe get to the Luxor and see the sights there.
