Las Vegas & California Trip - Part 3

First day in Las Vegas was fun but I was looking forward to the 2nd day since we were going to explore the Las vegas blvd., and a lot of other hotels.

Day 2:
The morning started around 7:30 am and freshening up followed by breakfast in the room.  We all got ready by 9:30 am and headed to the bell desk.  My dad has knee pain so I had reserved an electric scooter for him through Bally's so he could come with us everywhere as well.  We got the electric scooter in 15 minutes and the guy showed how to operate it...piece of cake!  We went out the front door of the Bally's instead of taking the escalator/moving walkway route....the front door option was much better.  We got to the las vegas blvd., and then went over the bridge to bellagio and from there to the bridge over to the Caesars palace.

At the entrance of Forums shops (from the casinos side)

We followed the signs to the forums shop where the Fall of Atlantis show was going to be played.  The show happens every hour on the hour and we missed the 10 o'clock show so we had to wait until 11 am to see it.  It's a show based on roman mythology and involves water and fire effects.  It lasts about 15-20 minutes and it's good to see it once if you haven't seen it before.  Anyways, before the show, we had a lot of time on hand, so we decided to explore the forums shop and I love how they have built the interior of Caesars palace keeping Greek and Roman mythology and architecture in mind.  Here is a snippet of one of the sculptures at the entrance of the Forums shop.

Canal shops at the Venetian

After the show, we headed out of the forums shop to go to Venetian.  Mirage is right next door to Caesars Palace and Harrah's is right across from Caesars.  We went to the Venetian straight to the Canal shops.  After bellagio fountains, I got to say that Venetian's canal shops is my second favorite place!!!  Venetian is basically the mini-Venice and it's beautiful!!  Don't miss this place...it's just magnificent!!  You will feel that you are in Venice...for sure!

It was about 12:30 pm by this time and we were hungry so we decided to eat lunch at an Indian restaurant.  We started heading back to the hotel to get our car.  Believe it or not, it took us about 20 to 25 minutes to head back from Harrah's to Bally's.  Anyways, while my dad got the car from valet, I dropped off the electric scooter in the room to get it charged.  In fact, the scooter ran fine from 9:45 till 1 pm or so.  As for the lunch, we went to this Indian restaurant called Gandhi restaurant which was just a mile from Bally's.  They had very nice buffet with good variety of vegetarian food including naan, rice, aloo mutter, malai paneer, dal makhani, suji halwa, veg. pakoda, savaiya, idli & sambhar.....Yummy!!!  We headed back to hotel after lunch and quick stop at a gas station.  It was pretty heavy lunch and we all were terribly sleepy after getting back to hotel.  It was just matter of minutes before we fell asleep.  I woke up after an hour nap but everyone else had a nice 3 hours nap!! I had to wake them up so we could go out again in the evening.  Ohh...before I forget, let me tell you that the weather was perfect!! It was not hot at all and it was just pleasant to be walking around on the strip without sweating or anything....in fact there was nice cool breeze once in a while which was surprising!!

Anyways...there is a lot more to talk about when we went out in the evening and it'll be too long for this post...so you all will have to wait for the next post :)

Until then, enjoy!!