DAY 14 - 15/10/2017

October 15th 31°

A long day on the strip... it was planned that we would spend just a few hours in the morning at the strip and then move on but it just took so long... we were there from 10:00 untill 16:30

We started south at the Las Vegas sign and found that there was a lot of tributes to the fallen in the shooting that took place on the 01/10 -  it was very sobering and we did not expect it.

Each person had their own cross with their photo. There were many flowers and tributes all the way down the line but even with all these tributes and people still coming to lay flowers and show their grief  other people were still taking photos of themselves with the sign... laughing, smiling and having fun... it just did not feel right...

All through Vegas on the hotels, on billboards, in shops and on T-shirts it was showing #VegasStrong

From here we went up the strip to where we finished yesterday.

The Mandalay Bay hotel was the first hotel after the sign and it still had the windows boarded up and over looking the Route 91 harvest country music festival - you could not help but think what had happened and everything was still as it was on the day...  Police were still at the scene.

We walked for miles and visited the M&M world shop and also a few of the hotels. We were also very lucky to see the water Fountain show at the Bellagio Hotel.

Once we finished and back at the hotel the kids jumped in the pool for an hour and then we stayed at the hotel to eat.

In the evening on the TV we could see that there was a march through the Las Vegas strip for the fallen – it started very close to our hotel I went all the way down to the Las Vegas sign.

We are now ready to drive out tomorrow to the Grand Canyon - Maybe in the morning on our way out we could try to see the pawnshop from the TV that we saw on the way in to Las Vegas or counting cars garage from the TV

Vegas is a place that you have to see...
The place itself is over the top and crazy as it should be.
The buildings and casinos are wonderful to see and experience.
It is also possible to find driving the strip - motorbike gangs pulling wheelies down most of the strip to very special cars you only see once-in-a-lifetime.

It was nice to visit Las Vegas but it’s a place that I would not think to come again... there are many other places that I have seen already on this trip that I would like to re-visit but Vegas is not one of them…