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Diary (see bottom for pictures)
Wednesday August 16
Going on with no sleep, at 4 am in the morning i make my way to Fort Lauderdale Airport to go on my last vacation before
classes begin. I arrive at Fort Lauderdale international airport not long after, and still dark outside. I check-in outside
the airport and get my plane tickets to LAS VEGAS!!! First Flight departs at 7:45 am and is about 4 hours long, arriving at
Denver at 9:40 am local time. I sit outside the airport (Ft Laud) in a wheelchair, i was not to be standing for long, recommended
by doctor, and waited about 30 minutes in the wheelchair till someone came for me. To my luck, it was someone who didnt understand
english ... So yes, security is even more tight if you are in a wheelchair and well, at least i didnt have to do the line.
I arrive at Denver, and to my luck, there is a flight leaving to Vegas at an earlier time which i manage to get on. This flight
again, about 2 hours in length. I slept through both flights since i hadnt slept all night. I wake up on my second flight
about 40 minutes prior to the arrival, and i have two women looking over me, they were pretty much standing over me looking
out the window. I was in seat 1A and on my first flight, in seat 1F. They were staring out the window to see the Grand Canyon,
and well, i decided to do that as well and have an awesome conversation about rocks (me being a geologist) and different trips
each one of us had done. I get to vegas and i am taken outside on my wheelchair. A taxi cab picks me up and well ... takes
me to near my hotel where i asked him to look for an ATM so i could pay him. Well, to my awesome luck, my debit card got rejected
at about 4 ATM machines, and by now, going nuts since i didnt have money to pay the cab. The cab is the rudest person i have
ever met, just being a huge pain in the ass, and being all rude about me not paying him, and him threatening me that he was
going to call the police and that if not, he wanted a collateral, he was pretty much asking me to give him my camera till
i had the money. HELL NO, you think im that dumb ... So then, he pretty much started insulting me and saying i was a scam
artist and such and such, blah blah, so i manage to get 20 dollars to pay him, go to the hotel, the fare is 27.20, and i give
him $30, HE HAD THE GUTS TO GRAB THE FREAKING 2.80 AS A FREAKIN TIP!?!? i soo wanted to say something, but then again, im
better than him. I check-in into the hotel, where i will be staying for 2 nights, the La Quinta Inn Tropicana. Pretty nice
place, but im still freaking out about the money, and i still hadnt eaten lunch, this being at 2pm. I got the brilliant idea
of searchin for a Colonial Bank, where i could cach a check my dad gave me, and well, i managed to find one 1 mile away. I
walked over there, oh the heat it felt like there was a hair dryer on my face. Once i get to the air conditioner at the bank,
i start to sweat like crazy. I manage to cash i check and off i went back to my hotel and eat lunch at BK. I go look for some
necesities, since now i had no liquid stuff with me because of the airport rules now. I go to Walgreens and back to the hotel,
get showered and changed, and off i was again.
Went to the Bellagio Hotel, that thing is huge, where i met with Staci and Scooter. We just sat outside the hotel, in
front of the fountains. We talked for a while and then walked to the other side of the strip to the New York New York hotel
where i had dinner with them at a Pizza Place. Just sat there talking being all cool, and then kept walking through the strip.
Let me say, it was the first time i met Staci and Sprooni, and i have all the right to say, they rock my world. Scooter drove me
back at around 10 pm when i just got to the hotel and fell dead on the bed. Long day, awesome day at the end, difficult
begining, but the trip, deffinitely worth it :-D
Thursday August 17
What a day, honestly, i start loving Vegas more and more. Wake up at around 10 am, hang around my hotel until lunch time
came. At that time, i leave my hotel walking, 96 degrees out, i walk down Tropicana ave, until i found something that i hadnt
seen in so long, and then again sooooo amazingly sdsfglksdjgflsk, why yes, i wish we had this in florida, JACK IN THE BOX,
oh the chicken was soooo good, curly fries, had deffinitely missed jack in the box since the last time i was in California.
I walked around some more and came back to the hotel at about 4. Went to the indoor people, it was cold as hell, it was nice
though, small, cozzy and i was the only one there, the jaccuzzi was better, warm, just relaxing. Came back to my room, slept
a nap, and at about 6:30, i left to the strip. Took a taxi to the Luxor hotel, where i had tickets to see the Drew Carrey
Improv show, and had dinner at the Buffet at the Luxor. Great food, A LOT of it, had prime rib cut, turkey, fried rice ..
well, alot more, it was afterall a buffet. After that, i just walked around the strip down to the Excalibur hotel, just taking
pictures while the sun was still out. I came back to the Luxor at around 8 pm, and directly to the Theater. Wow, is the Luxor
humongous, cant wait till monday when i get to stay there. Went to see the Drew Carrey Improv Show, oh wow, so hillarious.
It started at 9pm with an intro by drew carrey, it was more of a stand up show, and oh wow, laugh out loud hillarious, started
crying and all. It was overall better than Who's Line is it Anyways? since they could curse here. My fave 2 were Ryan Stiles
and Jeff Davis. Ended at around 11, left and took the monorail, right after getting lost in that humongous hotel, and went
to the Excalibur. From there i just walked donw the strip, went inside the New York New York hotel again, and came out the
other side, where i kept walking towards the Bellagio. At the Bellagio i watched the water fountain show, to the rythm of
different songs, the water would dance, pretty cool, but then again, one of the songs was the U.S. national anthem, that got
many tourists pissed, and well, they left, as well as i did. Took a taxi to the hotel, and here i am, exhausted from my long
and good day, waiting for what will happen tomorrow, or the day after.
Pictures
My foot, he wheelchair and my mistake at the airport:
My first flight Fort Lauderdale to Denver (YES! 7:45 AM!!!)
Crutches, bags and my coca cola at the airport
Night 1 and 2 at the La Quinta Inn Tropicana
My room at La Quinta:
Bellagio during the day:
Staci (left) and Scooter (Right) at the New York New York
Sirricos Pizza at the New York New York hotel (where Staci, Scooter and I had dinner):
The New York New York hotel inside:
Jack in the Box:
The pool at the La Quinta Inn:
Me in the pool of the La Quinta inn:
More of me in the pool of the La Quinta inn:
Entrance at the Luxor hotel:
Entrance to the buffet at the Luxor:
My Foooood at the Luxor buffet
The dessert station at the Luxor Buffet:
More of the Buffet at the Luxor Hotel:
The pyramid that makes most of the luxor hotel:
The new york new york hotel from outside:
The MGM hotel (largest hotel in Las Vegas, possibly the world):
ME in front of the New York New York hotel
The Luxor entrance and the Mandalay Bay Hotel
The pyramid of the Luxor hotel with the famous beam of light towards the sky:
Inside the Luxor, looking up:
The Luxor theater (where Drew Carey and the Iprov All stars was at):
Drew Carey and the Improv All Stars:
The Excalibur:
Picture of part of the strip (where the Gameworks is at):
Entrance to the Monte Carlo:
View of the strip:
The Paris Hotel and the Strip:
The Aladdin
The Paris Hotel entrance:
Me waiting for the fountain show:
The Fountain show in front of the Bellagio:
Notice the Bellagio on the Background
Me in front of the Bellagio and the fountains:
The Bellagio entrance and screens:
The Paris Hotel and the Eiffel Tower Restaurant:
View of the fountains from the other side, with the Paris Hotel in the Background:
Me in the Bellagio in front of the Paris hotel:
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