AMAZING THIS IS, I TELL YOU! CITY / STATE 2

Las Vegas 

After another few days in Los Angeles we set the alarm to quite early to next day since we are going to Vegas (!) and the drive there takes about 4 and a half hour. Which is not very far away, it’s from Gothenburg to Malmö so not very far at all if you compare to the enormous country of the USA. 

So we wake up, eat breakfast and start our 4 hour drive to viva Las Vegas! When we see the typical sign “Welcome to Las Vegas” we get some flashbacks to movies where you have seen that sign quite a lot. We didn’t really knew what we should do first in the biggest party city of them all so we decided since the clock was about 1pm when we got there that it’s time for lunch! We thought that since we are in Vegas after all we can afford to spend some money here in the casinos and restaurants but we won’t stay in any hotel here because it just costs too much for us. Farnam says he wants to eat at some restaurant in the MGM Grand because he recognizes this hotel from Rocky IV and we don´t have anywhere else were we wanted to eat so we tried to find the MGM Grand. Since we arrived at the western part of Vegas we were quite far away from the big hotels and casinos so we had to ask for directions to get onto the Strip as the big boulevard is called where the big hotels are located. We did kind of fast realize that the closer to the middle in Vegas you came the more luxurious it became. We really got stung by all these hotels and ads and all this glamour that the Strip offers. It’s quite amazing to see the whole world in miniature in just one place, we saw the Eiffel tower, pyramids and the tower in Seattle in miniature of course. 

When we arrived to the Strip we quickly looked for the big hotel of MGM Grand.

Since it is quite a huge place we asked a security guard for directions to the restaurant and then he asked "which one?" and we all got confused and didn’t know which one we wanted to go to. He kind of understood our confusion and quickly asked us if we would like to eat at a typical American diner place, and of course would we like to do that. When he showed us the way to the restaurant inside the hotel which felt like the hotel was as big as Gothenburg we quickly realized there was no chance at all we would make our way out of here by ourselves. So we ordered some fries, ribs and hamburgers and pancakes for dessert. 

Since the clock was only 4 pm when we finished our meal we decided to take a tour around the city to see some more of it. On our way out of the hotel, guided by another security guard, Hugge noticed a poster of this magician David Copperfield and he asked the guard if he performed here at MGM Grand and the guard said that he performed tonight at 9 pm and that we could get some tickets in the reception if we wanted to see the show. After he showed us the way to the entrance we bought tickets to see David Copperfield. 

At the moment we step out of the hotel we can see a store that sells city tours so we run over there and ask them what kind of city tours they got. The woman behind the desk kindly explained for us that they have bus tours that starts every hour and at the night they have this really awesome helicopter flight over Las Vegas. So today after the show we are going on a helicopter flight over this beautiful city of Vegas. Until 9 pm we decided to just chill in our car and maybe sleep for a few hours until the big show tonight. 

We drove to the outskirts of Vegas and stopped by at a Supermarket, bought some food and headed to a gas station to refuel the car and just stay there until tonight. 

The day after we all felt really **** good after yesterday. The show was great and the flight was even better. It was a wonderful day with amazing entertainment! The show was exiting and you got blown away of how he did it at the same time as you tried your hardest to figure the tricks out. The flight over Vegas was incredible, I don’t think anyone of us has seen anything like this ever before. Such a remarkable show of lightning and just amazing things! The fountains are just super awesome and you can really see why this is a place you have to visit before you die. But at the same time we realized that this must cost a enormous amount of money but you also get how much money they make here each day with all these casinos, tours and restaurants. As our fellow Jar Jar Binks would have said, "dis isa amaz city" or as we say: THIS IS A AMAZING CITY! 

After a few more days of gambling and just having fun we headed towards our next stop, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

over and out from Hugo, Farnam and L to the inus, Linus :D