Our first stop was the Fremont Street Experience. It's at the north end of the Vegas Strip and is a covered mall. Several casinos such as the 'Golden Nugget and Binions' take up much of the area but little shops for cigars, fake perfumes, cowboy clothes and of course Booze are found here. As we walked up one side and down the other we were buzzed overhead by some zip-liners. Must be part of a night-time act. Being here in the day-time, it looks like the bad part of downtown Seattle but maybe at night it gets comes to life and is impressive. We'll have to check. There are people all over outside the casinos who try to give you "free" tickets for stuff ....must be a gimmick in there somewhere. We must have TOURIST written all over us ! Just cause we look like deer in headlights ! OK. so enough of this fun let's head down the really good stuff.
We head south a couple of blocks and we're now on the "Strip". The first major obstacle is parking. Some places have metered parking for $1.50-$3.00 an hour but being the frugile people we are a free parking is what we'd like. Oh yea, free parking at the Miracle Mile Shopping mall ! Floor 5C, and we're on foot again. The escalators take us to a mezzanine but we don't know where the exit to the strip is. A nice concierge guy says that way just stay to the right. We walked forever until we saw daylight ! This mall is literally a mile around ! Incredible ! I might mention the fire alarm is blaring in our ears and that nice guy said if it was REALLY important he would have been notified. Right....all we can think about is should we go get the Jeep outta there or is everything OK ?
Finally, out on the street and the Bellagio Hotel is in front of us. Everybody says "Go to the Bellagio. it's fabulous!" Things must be different cause it isn't the grandeur we expected. Yes, the ceiling is beautifully covered with huge blown glass Flowers done by Dave Chihully but they all are casino's and from our perspective they all look the same inside. The conservatory was closed for a change in decor (Christmas), ... bummer... so we opted to splurge and have lunch at their buffet. YUMMY......it was delicious but spending $50.00 + for lunch ?????? It's all quite ........I don't even know what the right word is but this is not us..... ...I'm glad to experience all of it but we are both exhausted. Guess we are more at home with simpler things !
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