Vacation day 5 - Los Angeles, CA
Autor: Danielle Castro | Publicado: 2012-04-09T07:36:00-07:00


Vacation day 5

Los Angeles, CA.

On saturday, march  17th we new we were heading to Las vegas, however we did not had much information about how our schedule for day the was going to be like, since the tour guide for Vegas was a different one. Our last three days we spend with tour guide called  Mark, a very funny and laid-back guy.  Personally, I  liked him way more than the other tour guides we had during our vacation on the west coast. Mark used to make jokes about chinese people and different from his co-workers, he had a good spoking english, making easy to understand his instructions... 

Anyways, we got to the hotel lobby at 7:00 o'clock that morning and it was chaotic down there, a as a crowd trying to find their respctives tour guides and the right bus to hop in. 

The majority people there was chinese, so we had to be patient enough  to wait until the tour guide starts speaking in english. I spoke with every tour guide in the room and we werent in none of their list, so I headed outside to see if the guide i was looking for would be outside, was then when I spotted someone with the company uniform rushing his way inside the hotel, it was SAM, the tour,  guide that would take us to Vegas and he was late of course.

After we got in the bus we drove for a couple of hours, then had one quick stop to eat and afterwards we drove for another hour or so stopping  at an outlet 
that it was half hour away from Vegas.

 We had two hours to shop and eat. I started walking in one direction and my brother and Fernando went in a opposite direction. We met after one hour on nike store, the boys were going crazy with the low prices. I run out and went to gap store, ten minutes later Fernando called me asking about Doug, for sure doug went completely nuts wanting to buy everything forgetting his friend behind. Fernando doesn't really speaks english, he can understand a little bit but still needs to improve his speaking skills. So, Fernando met me at Gap store and we visited a few other stores and headed to the food court to grad a bite to eat.  When it was almost time to leave we spotted doug caring a hand full of bags looking for us, he only had time to order a sandwich to eat on the bus.

When we arrived in Las vegas we had about one hour to do some site seeing, we walked around and took lots of pictures. Vegas filled my eyes at first site, i just loved it and couldnt wait to see the city at night!!! It was all what imagine and more, it was over-the-top!!!

Already at the hotel, we had about two hours to settle in and get ready for our night tour. The good thing about the hotel and Vegas is that we would stay there for three nights so we didn't have to worry about packing every morning like we did before.

The bus left for our night tour at 7:00 pm, and our first stop was at the Mirage hotel, where they have an spectacle artificial volcano that "erupts" nightly from hour to hour. It was amazing and we could even few the warmth of the flames on our face...

Afterwards we crossed the street and headed  to the Venetian Hotel, they have a gorgeous replica of Venice's Grand Canal, that is about a quarter of a mile long, and you can have a gondola ride for $16 with the gondolier singing romantic songs... How cool is that huh??

Our next stop it was the Bellagio  hotel; they have the most magnificent, breathtaking conservatory and botanical garden on the interior of the hotel,  we also visited the Jean Philippe Pâtisserie, located still inside the hotel which holds the largest chocolate fountain in the word. On the outside the hotel we watched the fountain show, one of the most complexly choreographed water shows on the planet, it  costed about 75million to be builded. I absolutely loved how beautifully the fountains dance. The way the water moves paired with the lights - spectacular!

The last stop of the day it was at "old town", I was so tired and so hungry that I didn't bother walking around to explore, i just followed the crowd. So far I've forgotten to say that it was St Patrick's Day and the city was packed.  When I realized where we were heading to, it was too late to make my way back, we were in the middle of crowd staring at a stage with a rock band performing, on my left side i see a bunch freaks dressed and painted all in green and on my right i see a bar with semi naked girls dancing on the top of the counter and my brother and fernando staring at it...  We were at Freemont Streer, the second most famous St in Las Vegas!!  After taking a couple of pictures together I  left them and started searching for food, at this point of our trip i couldn't stand fast food anymore, i needed decent food, but i couldn't find it at that time of the night, of course. After one hour or so i head back to the bus  and saved some places on the front of the bus for Doug and Fernando so we could be the first ones getting out,  arriving then  at out hotel room faster.