Vegas trip day 5
Woke up at 7am (looking back, I did not sleep much while we were in Vegas).
After breakfast we gambled some at our hotel. Michelle put in $10 in slot machine & won $94. I started off my day losing $60, but then I won $85. This would have been pretty good if I hadn’t lost approx $200 the day before.
After a couple hours of gambling we decided to head out to the strip to see what everyone else comes to Vegas to see.
We started off by parking at the Bellagio. This is, in my opinion, one of the nicest hotels on the strip.
Here is a pic from outside -
Here is a picture of their indoor garden -
After walking around their casino for a few (and losing around $40) we decided to go walk the strip. Since we were at Bellagio we started with checking out their dancing fountains -
Bellagio fountain panoramic photo -
Here is a pic of us outside the Bellagio -
From there we walked the strip on our way over to the Imperial Palace. On our way we passed through Ceasars, the Flamingo & maybe a couple more places.
Here are some pics of the garden habitat at the Flamingo -
We went to the Imperial Palace so I could see what they bill as “the worlds largest private auto collection”. From a car guy’s point of view, it was amazing. Hundreds & Hundreds of cars. Alot of them were priceless. I would say about 60% were for sale. The most expensive on that had an actual listed price was $6.5 million. Michelle overheard someone ask about one of the cars that was listed as “inquire about price”, the guy was told $10.5 million.
They had all kinds of cars. One of a kinds, prototypes, Johnny Carson’s 1940s sedan with original bill of sale, the car from Starsky & Hutch & a replica of the Mustang used in Gone in 60 Seconds (Elenore).
There were A LOT of cars listed as “Not for Sale”. Among those were 2 cars that the information listed in front of them said they were the only 2 cars in existence
Panoramic shot of the 2 cars -
Here is a link to all the pics I took at the car show. I know some of them are blurry, most of them were taken with the IPhone & it does not had a shakey hand control. Be warned there is around 400 pics. I think we spent a little longer than 2 hours walking around here. Believe it or not I did not take pics of everything. There was around 40 or so cars I did not photograph - LINK
After all the walking we did at the car show, we decided to find a faster way back to our car. So we decided to take the monorail from the Imperial Palace to Bally’s. Bally’s hotel & casino is right next door to Paris hotel & casino so we took a couple pictures outside there.
This pic looks a little strange. It was taken from a walkway that had tall glass “walls” & some reflections off the glass showed up in the pic -
When a person passing by saw me taking a picture of Michelle, he said he would take a pic of both of us. “Go on, get up there with her” he said. I was worried he would run off with the camera, but he didn’t.
Here is a pic of Bellagio at night -
After this we went back to bingo. Hey once you win $500 at it, you cant stop.
After bingo we went over to Main Street Station for food. All in all it was a good decision. The food was delicious & the portions were huge. What sucked was the service. It took forever for the waitress to get our food from the kitchen. Michelle saw it up in the serving window about 5-10 minutes before it was brought to our table. She never came back to us to see if we needed more drinks. Once we were done eating, I finally got her attention (she had been walking right by us all night) while she was helping a table next to us. I asked if we could have 3 to go boxes & our check. She looked at how much food we had left. When she dropped of the one to go box, she actually said “I forgot you were here”.
WHAT? Did she just really say that? I had to ask Michelle to make sure I heard correctly. Then I realized she walked off, 1- with only giving us 1 box for all our food & 2-without our bill. She had carried about 5 boxes over to our table, but only left one. I followed her up to the counter & asked if I could have 2 more boxes. She said and I quote “You know I thought you may need more, but I figured you would put it all in one box”. Once again - WHAT?
Needless to say, she didn’t get a tip. Which with the food being so good, it would not have been difficult to get a tip out of us.
After that wonderful adventure we walked back to our hotel by passing through 3 or 4 other casinos. That is another nice thing about staying downtown on Fremont Street. If you don’t want to walk outside, you can use a lot of the casinos as short cuts. On the way we played a few slot machines. Won some, lost some.
Once back at our hotel, we stopped in the restaurant & had some desert.
After this Michelle said she was tired & went up to the room. I hung around the casino. I found a video poker machine that also had blackjack on it. It was either 25 or 50 cents per hand. I played for about 90 minutes on that $20. That was the longest $20 had lasted me the entire time I had been in Vegas.
I think I fell asleep somewhere around 3:30a.
Ok, next post - day 6. We spent some more time out on the strip.