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Hi! Yesterday before the movies we had plenty of time to explore the local area on South Las Vegas Boulevard before the movie started so we visited M&M World! This place is too cool! It’s 4 floors and M&M stuff everywhere. If you love M&Ms, you will be in heaven here….

This is my kind of slot machine!

I’m trying to remember, but I think this is a bank. When you put money in, pull the arm, and out comes M&Ms! Isn’t that a cool way to save money. Don’t worry about saving too much, all the money that you save you’ll have to re-invest into more M&Ms to motivate you to save more money. Hmmmm, a vicious circle…..hmmm, maybe it’s not a bank….not sure, anyways, moving on…..

My kind of t-shirt…..

I’m looking for Kyle……

Kyle has to be around here somewhere…..

Okay, those previous pictures were yesterday. Today we mosey on up to Fremont Street and looked around, tried my luck, and lost $40 bucks……

OH, see that canvas on top of the street. That’s what they play those hourly nightly shows on that I was yapping about before…..

So, that’s what we did today! It’s a tad cold out tonight, so I don’t think we are going too far tonight. I’ve been checking out some information on magic shows around the area. There aren’t too bad in cost. Unless you want to see David Copperfield, you can get a decent magic show seat for 30 bucks. We just might hit a few and I’ll let you know how they are. Have a great week!

Hi! What a great night we had on Fremont Street in Las Vegas. It was hopping and I didn’t win anything news breaking, but at the end of the night I profited $120, hey, I can’t complain, especially on a weekend. But, I got some cool pictures for you on Fremont Street! Take a peek…..

Just 5 nickels can win you this!! I almost won, but the reels were a little off and just weren’t lining up the symbols for me to win the Corvette. Darn! But, just let me believe I almost won!!!

The Fremont Street casinos shut down all their neon lights for an hourly show up on the Fremont Street electrical canvas above, called the “Fremont Street Experience”, so cool. A different theme show every hour. Here’s some pictures of it, this is on an electrical canvas right above your head!

This one is alien themed – that’s my favorite show! So very cool…..it’s like the aliens are looking down on us…..so, so cool!!!

Oh, want to see how I ended my night!! Yummy!!! I don’t drink much. A margarita a month, but I had to have my one Las Vegas mixed drink! This drink (keep the plastic container, I use it for my loose change now), anyways, this drink cost me $13 dollars and it was considered a “small”, I think the medium was $17 and the large was $21. This drink is a little on the weak side, they offered everyone that buys a drink more vodka for an additional $2 dollars! I declined, the $13 dollars was enough for me to spend on a drink that actually, I have to say, tasted pretty darn good as it is. And no, don’t tell me the calories, I don’t want to know – LOL!

Well, that’s our night! Oh, I bought some Keno tickets and won $21 dollars on Keno! And now it’s Saturday and let’s see how wild we can get tonight! Hey, it’s the thought that counts! I’ll stay with my Pepsi and Grenadine tonight. Yummy! Love Cherry Coke. Have a great weekend!

Hello! Today is a good day so far! I say so far, because it’s only 3:09pm and we’ve got so much to do and see this evening and tonight. I think we are heading down to Fremont Street tonight and on a Friday night it should be a rowdy night. Not rough or dangerous, but if you are a people watcher, it will be a hot spot.

SO! What did we do this morning? We went to visit Hoover Dam. Last winter when we were here they were starting to build a new bridge that would funnel the cars over Hoover Dam and not against it. I’ll show you a picture of a year ago and I’ll show you a picture of this year’s progression. It was so exciting to see Hoover Dam and the building of the new highway.

These are 3 pictures from last year’s (and I do mean, exactly one year ago) of the new bridge they are building….

Okay, and these following pictures are from today’s visit……

So those are the pictures of what we did today! We had a nice time there and we brought Jake along to enjoy the weather with us walking around. We didn’t walk across the dam, but we went to one of the many rest area around the dam and enjoyed the area walking around and visiting the gift shop.

I’ve got pictures of when we went out last night! Take a peek….

This is a picture of outside walking along the Las Vegas Boulevard……

Paris Casino and Hotel. I didn’t win much money in here…..think I lost about $40 bucks……

We visited the Excalibur Casino…..very neat inside, but not paying out….

New York New York Casino! Nice and simple inside with a decent food court. Great pizza here! But, didn’t payout for me last night!

The Luxor! Very nice inside. I got some pictures of inside as far as I could go with a camera!

I didn’t win any money here, but I almost won this (yeah, right!)……

So, that’s what we did last night! The only place where I made some money last night was at the MGM Grand! I won about $200 dollars. So tonight we are heading down to Fremont Street. I’m not bring a lot of money to spend, because remember Friday night thru the weekend, I really don’t think the casinos are going to pay out that much. I think I’ll be staying with the penny machines tonight. Have a good night. And I hope you enjoyed the pictures!

Hello! Today was a pretty mellow day. After sleeping late, we did our shopping errands at Walmart down the street here. You know I’m starting to see a trend here…..alot of people walk, shop, gamble, read (yes, read too) while listening to some kind of mp3 player pumping music into their ears by ear buds. Everywhere I go, I see it (and hear it). I don’t see that back home too often at all. Maybe it’s me. Oh, speaking of music, we went to the Fashion Show Mall next door (walking distance) and I hopped in the Apple store to check out there iPod Touch!!!

Hmmmm, now I knew I didn’t know much about it in the first place, but after checking it out……Apple can keep it. Is it junk? No Way! It’s wicked nice and the “touch” part of it is so sleek and neat, but basically from the salesperson pitch on it, all it does is play music, play games, and you can surf the internet and send email only if you are in an internet “hotspot”. Wait for a hotspot? My life can’t wait. So maybe for additional features you have to pay for it?? I asked, “Hmmm, is there a data plan I can pay for to use the internet and send email on the whim??” He says, “No, you have to buy a iPhone with a cell phone minute plan.” So I was curious and stepped it up with my question, “Hmmm, okay, so I want a plan that gives me unlimited everything, minutes, text, internet, everything.” He says, “Okay, it’s $99.99 a month, plus and additional $20 dollars a month for unlimited text messages.” I say, “$20 dollars a month JUST for unlimited text messaging??” He says, “Yep.”

Now, let me explain to you that I like text messaging and I do my share of sending out some each day, like, 40 to 60 text messages a day depending on if I have to actually say something important. I have my Blackberry with Nextel and I pay $99 dollars a month for everything included. For $99 dollars I can send out as many texts I want, yap as much as I want, and also send email and go to any website I want anytime I want. Oh, and I got Direct Connect on my Blackberry too! So, my days of the iPod Touch is history. I was planning on replacing my iPod Nano, but I’ll hang on to my iPod Nano for my music. I’ll now start searching for a neat E-book reader.

Okay, I’ll admit that Nextel doesn’t have the best coverage for service and congratulations Apple for turning quite a profit this last quarter. Apple sold 3.36 million Macintosh computers during this past quarter, representing a 33 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 8.7 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 100 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 21 million iPods during the quarter, representing an eight percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter. (Source: HERE)

As for tonight, we visited Fremont Street. I like Fremont Street, just wander around outside visiting casinos. Fremont Street is a pedestrian street with no cars allowed. It’s not even a street set up for cars. It’s like a huge sidewalk that is laced with casinos on both sides. Over this street is a large roof made of lights and they performs shows on this canvas made of light bulbs. Let’s take a look…..

This is the Mermaid Casino on Fremont Street……

A light show up above on the roof canvas made of all light bulbs…..

So, that’s what it pretty much looks like……..next time I go there (if it’s during the day) I’ll get some daytime picture. It can be pretty crowded at night and it’s a Monday, imagine a Saturday night when the portable bars come outside to serve some delicious drinks!

Have a great night and I’ll be back tomorrow!

Today started off with nice weather but around 3pm it started raining. We started the day off by buying our 30 day unlimited ride bus pass. For me it was 65 dollars, for my parents (and anyone over 60 years old) it was 30 dollars. I got my bus pass from one of those bus terminal machines on the sidewalk that you put money in and get your bus pass. For my parents, we had to take the bus down to the Fremont Street area to the bus terminal station to purchase the reduced fare bus tickets.

After we all got our bus tickets, we walked around Fremont Street, but during the day it’s very limited action there and I lost 30 dollars. We then took the bus down to the brand new casino and mall named Aria down by the Monte Carlo on the Las Vegas strip. The Aria is huge, you can definitely get lost in there. We walked around and explored the mall and casino. This is a three level mall and the casino is on the second floor. It was about lunch time and we ate at the buffet at this resort. Very good food, but remember, you get what you pay for, it was a tad pricey.

When we left the Aria it was raining. We found a bus stop and rode the bus back to the RV park. Now we are just hanging out until we go out a little later tonight. I hope it stops raining. Let’s look at some pictures.

This is Fremont Street…..it looks alot neater at night…..

These following pictures are of Aria Casino and Resort…..

Outside the Aria is a wall waterfall surrounding the valet parking area…..

Where we ate lunch today at their buffet…..this is my strawberry shortcake dessert and brownie……yum!

Well, that’s it for today. We are back in the RV and it is pouring out. It’s actually coming down alot worse than an hour ago. Hmmmmm, maybe I will stay in. I see Jake is a little nervous about the weather. Have a good night.