rudolf's posts with tag: las vegas
|  | Final run through the Las Vegas strip (Las Vegas Boulevard) where it is at it's best, Bellagio, Pallazzo and Wynn.
Tips on how to do Las Vegas, researched by Lucy:
Check out every venue you are even remotly curious to see.
Find a membership card sign-up booth.
You must present a picture ID and address.
You get a card that you can load with gambling money - if you wanna gamble.
Most often you get perks already just for signing up.
Sometimes it's just coupons or t-shirts, but places like Wynn or Hooters offered also a "spin to win" chance that can give you free gambling points, free show tickets or free buffet style meals.
We won a free dinner for 2 eat as much as you can buffet, a free ticket for 2 to see Monthy Pythons Spamalot show, both at Wynn, plus each of us a rather crappy 100 USD slot playing voucher plus a free comedian chow at Hooters this way, without spending any money on gambling.
Lucy also got a truckload of coupons, but spending 10% less on an item you don't really need is still wasting money. |
Ever wondered what the word desert means???
In Las Vegas you could probably ignore it, as long as you just float around the indoors of the Hotel Casinos along the famous Las Vegas Blvd. Strip, but else i can only tell you that it gets hot here - while the locals just call this warm (the 90° Fahrenheit).
Glad my place has air conditioning too.
Las Vegas from the point of view of a non gambler;
sure, none of these irrational people you would come across in Florida, here almost everybody manages to be polite and trying to apply harmony, but somewhere in the news or gossip on the street you still here of murders and the usual crime you find in any US city, only that it is nowhere where i am for a positive change.
The call this city Sin City - haha, just because a girl that gets paid to fluff a bit around in "underwear" in front of some male, just because the tease in dark places is the big business here, it is a laughing joke compared to what we Europeans see in our cities, so better buy a cheap ticket to Germany, France, Denmark or even Switzerland if you want some good real sin and not just a "decor sin"!
You do however not need to add to the terrible pollution with all these way to many cars on all these 3 to 4 lane boulvards in this city, there is a very good bus system for only 40USD for 30 days or 2.50USD a 24 hours pass that gets everyone to anywhere in town mostly on time and with good frequencies.
One thing anyone has to keep in mind about the general common spirit of Las Vegas:
Narrowminded, nitpicking and of course the usual western squareheaded attitude is omni present here - unless you are a big spender of course, because the money seems to be the only thing that drives this city in the desert.
| | Swimming at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Students Wellness and Recreation Facility May 2008, photos from inside and out of pool and building and my temporary home in Las Vegas |
inside view and 1 lap video for learning purposes from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas indoor pool at the Students Wellness and Recreation Center HPIM0622_NEW.flv (1.9 MB)
it may look slow, but the gliding is in HPIM0621.mpg (2.2 MB)
style study of Rudolf freestyle swimming at Students Wellness and Recreation Center of University of Nevada, Las Vegas HPIM0618.mpg (6.1 MB)
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