cali-vegas day 6 at vegas

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Wednesday was reserved for visiting all the hotels! Even though we were craving for some shopping-action, we forced ourselves to go check out some hotels first, if not later they all very nice and then we regret when there's not enough time to see them all.. We were desperately looking for a McDonalds for breakfast [i was that impressed by their mcGriddle] but we cldn't find one with proper parking =(

New York New York Hotel

We drove to the middle of the strip this time, and parked at New York New York hotel. This was a cute place, it had the skyline of NYC, even had statue of liberty and a rollercoaster! too bad the rollrecoaster was 'closed due to high winds' dunno real or not.. doesn't seem like any of these hotel roller coasters are really open at all.

The little foodcourt inside is like a lil street in NYC.. cute!

our macs breakfast was replaced by his msg-filled crappy 'chinese food' and my southern catfish served with fries and hush puppies. Well, at least i learnt what hush puppies were. I never knew they were edible. Actually i still dunno what they are but at least I can say I ate them!

Unfortunately, pb lost his raybans here.. We went to the security and they had a box for lost sunglasses, but it was empty. =( When we came back later to get our car, we checked by the security again, it was another guard, who slowly pulled out the box and put his hand in... And then told us it was empty. Bloody hell cheat us I actually thought it was actually there! boo.

We then crossed over the bridge to MGM Grand to have a better view of the NYNY hotel...

nice hor?

MGM Grand Hotel

grand anot?

cutest cubs!! sleepy like their parents.

more sleepy lions. they are the laziest animals ever. sleep in san diego, sleep in vegas.

The Meadows

By then, we were done with hotels. There were a few more, but ah heck it. Maybe later. It was time for some shopping! We drove quite a distance to a mall called The Meadows, which had hollister so that i could pick up stuff for bubbles and my jacket as well, since the Fashion Show hollister didn't have everything she wanted. did you know that las Vegas means The meadows? heh heh. anyway the mall was quite crappy, and they didn't have my jacket in my size. And I didn't write down the item numbers for bubble's stuff, only the item names, but the tags didn't have the names so i made the guy at the counter search for them for me.. He took a pretty long time searching 'at the back'! So bubbles, precious time was spent searching for your stuff ok?

After the silly trip there, we drove back to the Fashion Show mall to get my jacket.. haha.. i lurrrve it! thanks pb. heehee..

brownie!! keeping me warm right now in cleveland. Speaking of jackets, it is freaking cold in Cleveland already. I thought fall just started, and I thought fall was time for like, you know, normal jackets/windbreakers? I was wrong. We are jumping right into furry, padded jackets already. I dunno why it is so cold. I wonder what will happen when the snow comes. I am so gonna freeze. I think i need to shop for more winter wear. heehee.

Caesar's Palace Hotel

After my very happy purchase [happy - me, purchase - pb] we headed back to the hotels.. Parked at Caesar's Palace.

pretty!

The Bellagio Hotel

And we also headed toward the Bellagio.. this is the lobby. They have a conservatory with pretty display but it was a pity it was closed for reconstruction [must change to trees of fall color!] In one of the casinos [Bellagio i think] I was waiting for pb-in-washroom and I plonked down at one of the jackpot machines. Nope, I didn't play, but this ang moh middle aged guy came up to me and talked to me..

ammag: 'Any luck?'

paw: 'er, nah, i'm just waiting for someone'

ammag: 'Is he your husband?'

paw-sensing-he-is-weird-and-i-should-try-to-brush-him-off : 'hmm, almost'

ammag: 'he's a lucky guy. Tell him I said that ok?'

paw: 'er.. ok'

And then he walked off.. heehee. Why no cute angmoh tell me that? only old man.. boo.

Paris hotel across the Bellagio fountains. Eiffel tower leh! It was a nice walk back to our car across the sidewalk outside the bellagio towards Caesars Palace, cos they had speakers playing nice music.. =) Our next stop was Hard Rock Hotel, to try their steak and shrimp special for $7.77!

Hard Rock Hotel Steak and Shrimp special

When we got to the hotel, i panicked a lil cos well, i should have known, it was mainly a casino and i realised that i forgot/didn't know which restaurant it was! I had expected a hotel lobby and a restaurant plop in the middle of the lobby, like normal hotels yknow.. We walked a little past a few restaurants and almost asked the information counter when I saw 'Mr Lucky's 24/7' and it rang a bell.. haha, luckily I saw it b4 asking if not so paiseh.

we had 2 different cups of merlot, and i don't know whose is what. wonder how pple can tell the diff. can't remember the name, can't remember the taste.

Anyway, I ordered a medium rare steak cos the medium at buggy whip was kinda tough for my in-need-of-crowning-teeth. It was kinda rare [haha huo2 gai1] but i really enjoyed it.. Very nice, affordable dinner in a pleasant environment. [minus the tipping sigh]

Treasure Island - The Sirens

After our dinner, we headed back to the strip and parked in treasure island, nicely early for their Sirens show to secure a pretty good spot. Free show again haha! By this time I was feeling pukey, probably the wine and rich food. So I went to the washroom to burp and felt ok enough. The show was quite fun, lots of singing, dancing, sliding down ropes from high places, jumping here and there, they even had a pirate 'ship' which rowed down the pond, and there were explosions and stuff.

Halfway through the show I started to feel sick. Like, really sick.. bleah. I started to superbly need to puke and also started feeling very cold.. I tried to curb it cos there were so many pple around and if i puked i'd probably get diaoed to death or something, can just imagine them saying 'eew these chinese! puke everywhere!' hurhur. i mean i dun blame them, im sure all yellow skinned asians look the same to them and they probably associate all of us with rude loudmouthed prcs who spit everywhere. So anyway pb tried to get us out but there was such a crowd. Luckily we were next to the information counter, and they were really nice, asked me 'are you ok?' ('No, i'm feeling nauseous can i have a paper bag pls') and then they handed me this bag for wet umbrellas and i promptly did a merlion.

all the while the guy was like, looking at me and i had to apologise to him for making him see all that.. so paiseh lah. and he was like, it's ok.. and he opened a path for me to go back into the hotel.. 'Go back into the hotel and you'll feel much better!'. So nice lah. thank god i was near the information counter or if not i sure puke on the spot.

I did feel much better after going back into the hotel to clean up [puke in hair kinda gross.. no girlfriends to hold back/tie up ur hair when clubbing heh]. Well I suppose the steak was too raw for my own good. coupled with wine.. its a nono. better order 'medium' next time, dun geh kiang order medium rare.. i hereby realise that i have a rather weak stomach/digestive system.

Well which means we missed half of the show which was ok cos it was getting kinda cheesy, and also meant we could go to fremont street earlier, in case we go too late and everything is closed or something!

Fremont Street Experience

pretty street with pretty lights! with lil carts and buskers. Remember the talented spray paint artist from NYC? I saw another guy here, and he did even more designs than the NYC guy who had only like, 2 designs. But also more expensive here.

playing the piano on a lorry! beautiful, romantic music. =) There were many pple wearing those shiny metallic beads, apparently for good luck in casinos, and we also noticed many people drinking out of colourful long tubed plastic cups.. kind alike those paopaocha ones.. but im quite sure it isn't just paopaocha in them heh. shld be margaritas if i'm not wrong.

After checking out the golden nugget hotel [we were to meet the grand canyon tour bus there the nxt day] we picked up a couple of krispy kremes and headed back to snooze.