Rest Day - Las Vegas
We've had about one rest day in the last month, criss-crossing the Sierra's (God knows how many combined meters of elevation we've climbed) and then traversing the Mojave Desert. We're knackered. Some serious muscle soreness going on. And we're in Vegas. So, we're having 5 days off! And we're going to live it up. We lounge by the pool for most of the day. We see Chris Angel, a world famous magician/illusionist (Google him), and while the magic is cool and the effects are cool, he himself kinda rugs us the wrong way with his Emo/gothic/teen hearthrob/mr niceguy style. We walk The Strip, that is, the street where all the famous themed casinos are, which is an hilarious experience. Anything goes. Beer on the streets, lots of cleavage, fountains, shows, bright lights, street performers, hustlers, nude girly magazines, stretch limo's and hummer's, it's all incredibly surreal. There's a Paris themed casino (complete with Eiffel Tower), and Venetian one with gondolas and St. Mark's replica, a New York one with basically every New York landmark forming the casino, in all there's maybe 2 dozen like this lining the road with thousands of people here for a good time enjoying it. When Ada calls it a night Luke plays a poker tournament at the Egyptian themed Luxor (a black pyramid building with a light beaming into the night's sky from it's peak, with a huge sphynx out the front) where he is, of course, unsuccessful.
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