Las Vegas & California Trip - Part 4

........Continuing from my previous post (Las Vegas & California Trip - Part 3)

Day 2 continues....
After waking up everyone, we all got ready by 6 pm and then headed out again, this time south of bally’s on las vegas blvd.  We just walked on Las vegas blvd. from Bally’s down to Tropicana hotel checking out the hotels and other attractions in between.  Then we crossed the bridge over to Excalibur and went inside the hotel.  This hotel has quite few restaurants and also has a nice Pizza Hut Express place which is a quick grab and go bite kind of thing.  They have small portion size pizzas for $5 bucks (at least cheese pizza was $5) that can be good for one person.  I was kind of feeling hungry, so I grabbed one cheese pizza and it was delicious!!  Excalibur has a inside passage that takes you to the Luxor so you don’t have to go out, so we just followed that path.  We went to Luxor and went to the shopping floor where you can see the entire pyramid from inside.  This is one hotel which has a completely different architecture of how the rooms are situated.  Basically when you go inside, you see the room from anywhere ...it’s kind of hard to describe but it’s fun to see it yourself.  Anyways, from Luxor, we got out and headed back up north on Las vegas blvd.  On the way, we checked out Aria hotel which had a beautiful Chandelier hanging in one of the casinos.

Las Vegas Blvd.

Bellagio's Dancing Fountains!!

Remember that we had been on foot since 6 pm and by this time it was already 9 pm and wanted see the Volcano show by Mirage (which happens every hour on the hour) and Sirens of TI show by Treasure Island (which had fixed timings of 7, 8:30, 10, and 11:30 pm).  At this time, we knew we weren’t going to make it to either of the shows, and we had only reached to Bellagio.  So we just decided to stay at the fountains and enjoy the fountains show first and then head to TI to catch the 10 o’clock show.  Boy!! Am I glad that I stayed for the 9:15 pm fountains show!! It was magnificent!! No words to describe!! There is something in watching the bellagio fountains dance right in front of you :).  It was worth the wait!!  

Sirens of TI

After the show, my parents and I started heading to Treasure Island to catch the 10 o’clock show while my brother decided to just grab dinner and head back to the room.  We all were tired but we wanted to check out the show as well so my mom and I decided, what the hell, we might as well go and watch it.  My brother picked up dinner for all of us and took it to the room while we went for the show.  The sirens of TI is a musical pirate show which lasts for about 20 minutes or so and you want to get there at least half an hour early to get a good location to stand because otherwise it’s hard to see anything if you are in the middle.  That’s kind of what happened with us but we were still able to catch what was going on.  It’s a good one time watch show for those who haven’t seen it.

After the show ended around 10:20/25 pm, we started heading straight to the room.  Believe it or not, it took us over half an hour to get from TI to Bally’s.  It’s a long walk!! And we were already super tired from all the exploring during the day.  We got back to the room, put my dad’s scooter to charge up and eat some chipotle that my brother had gotten for us.  Meanwhile, my brother was sleeping (well, napping) to get some energy back to stay up for gambling, of course!!  While he got some sleep, we had our dinner and then when my parents went to bed, my brother and I went downstairs in Bally’s casino to try our luck :P....again....that too around 11:45 pm when the night was just beginning :).  I was tired but I wasn’t sleepy at all, so I decided to go to casino as well and I didn’t have to walk much either.  Obviously the first $10 I put in the roulette, I lose.  My brother does the same and we both decide to give Bally’s a break and head to Paris casino.  One thing I like about Bally’s is that there is an inside walkway straight to Paris, so you don’t have to go out of the hotel at all to go to Paris.  Anyways, we go to Paris and my luck completely changes.  For the first time in history, I actually win some money!!! Yay!! I was soooooo happy :).  My brother’s luck wasn’t working so much but still he got back everything that he had lost which is not bad either :).  

We were having so much fun on roulette that we didn’t realize what time it was.  Well, it was 3 am that we decided to call it a night and head back to our room.  After all the great adventure today and fun at the casinos, it was a good night sleep!!

Tomorrow we leave Vegas to head to LA to see my aunt and hop on some adventurous rides at Universal and DisneyLand.  But more on that later!!  Before that, I am going to give a brief review on Bally’s Las Vegas Hotel experience!! So stay tuned!!