…goes onto my blog!
Last Wednesday I suddenly felt the urge of going to Vegas! So Lin started searching for hotels and deals on that evening as we had planned on leaving Friday after work and coming back Monday.
We left on Friday around 18h and arrived in Vegas around 22h30. We made one stop about 1 hour before arriving to refuel; it was already pitch black outside, yet when we got out of the car it felt like a hammer of heat had just fallen onto our heads. I’m not sure I’ll be able to describe well the heat that we felt at that moment. It was night and there was a ton of hot wind… not warm… I said H O T!
What you need to remember: 21h30, night, 35°+ outside… I think that gives you a good idea of what kind of weather we got the rest of the week end. 
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Lin found a really nice deal with Travelocity, we got a room at the Hilton, a 4 star hotel really close to the strip (the main road of Vegas with all the famous hotels and casinos like Caesars, Luxor, Bellagio etc…). We paid 58$ a night for a pretty nice room with a King size bed.
Saturday
On Saturday the first thing we did was going to see the WSOP Main Event, it was the last day with just 3 tables left (27 players left out of a 7500 field a week before). I’ve seen the ESPN featured table, and Michael Mizrachi on another one, I point him out has he’s the only pro left… I’m hoping he wins it in November when the final table will be played!
I’ve also see Phil Hellmuth’s private lounge, unfortunately I didn’t see him. ^^
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Since we woke up around 11h30 and went immediately to the WSOP, we decided to have lunch after that. We decided to go to The Buffet at the Bellagio. By far the most expensive buffet place I know, something like 28$ if I remember correctly for an all-you-can-eat buffet… but omfg the food! I ate so much I got to the point I seriously couldn’t move for 10 mins while my stomach tried to slowly digest a few things and make some room. It was the best buffet EVAH! Did I mention they had french pastryies exactly how you would find them in good bakeries in france?
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After that we checked out the Bellagio’s Casino, unfortunately you won’t see any pictures as we’re not allowed to take pictures inside the Casino. Apparently some people go there lying to their boss and/or wifes and Casinos don’t want them to end up on Internet…. O’RLY?! But check out the Gallery to see more pictures from the day.
We didn’t do that much on Saturday as we were still pretty tired, so after spending a little time at the Bellagio we headed back to the hotel to rest a little before going to the “Lance Burton Master Magician” show at the Monte Carlo Resort & Casino.
I had never seen a magic show live before, and I’ve gotta say it’s pretty damn fun! Thank you John for advising us to go see him because the show was a lot of fun. That guy knows his shit, he didn’t do anything that we hadn’t seen before on TV, but seeing it live kicks ass! Some of his tricks are really amazing, next time I really wanna go see David Copperfield to compare them.
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After that we decided to visit Fremont street! If the name doesn’t ring a bell I’m sure you’ve still heard of it, it’s in downtown Vegas, an entire street covered with a giant screen! It’s like 5 miles away from the Strip, yet there were more people on the street than at the strip.
It’s really impressive, seeing this giant screen of 460m long and 27 m above you. The best was seeing the entire street’s lights going off and a KISS video clip starting with a fireball that goes through the whole street
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Sunday
Sunday, once again woke up late and decided to head to Pampa’s, a Brazillian restaurant. Lin has been in Vegas several times and knew where to get discounts, so we first headed to the Tuscany Hotel & Casino to buy the vouchers. We paid 3$ per person for the vouchers and paid around 50% off at the restaurant, which saved us like 10$, it’s not a whole lot but when every penny saved in Vegas is more money you can spend on slots right? :p
That restaurant was pretty cool, the waiter saw us arrive and decided to give us the little private room rather than seating us in the main restaurant room. We had our own private little table! The food was quite good, it starts with a buffer for the appetizers and then you get a green piece thing that you put on the table meaning that you’re ready to eat the meat.
When it’s green waiters keep walking in with different kinds of meat on a stick which they cut in front of you, beef, chicken, porc, turkey wrapped bacon, sausages etc… it was really tasty! Once you’re done you just flip the thing over to show the red side and they stop coming in.
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This was in the Planet Hollywood Resort… which seems to be a really nice hotel to consider next time! Check out the gallery for more pictures of that hotel.
We then spent the rest of the day wandering in the streets of Vegas under a 45°C sun… yeah, as I first said at the beginning of this post it was H O T! Thankfully Lin was smarter than me and brought suncream which means that even with my bald head I didn’t get a single sunburn \o/
We went to see the Bellagio’s fountains (check out the new Video tab for a video of the fountain), which are really beautiful. They only work every 30 minutes though, so you gotta time your arrival there! We then checked out Caesar’s Palace and Paris Paris!
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We then headed to the Venetian to see the Blue Man Group show. In one word: AWESOME!
They don’t do as much drumming as I thought, it’s a lot of situation comedy, taking people from the audience and putting them in funny situations, like this guy they took, blind folded him, walked backstage, painted him entirely blue (not before making him wear a full suit ofc) and then attaching him by the legs upside down and throwing him into a big white sheet to make a print of himself!
We were also in the “Poncho” section, which means that we were in the first 5 rows (3rd one actually) where they give the public ponchos to protect themselves from the paint and various other liquids they throw at you. Fortunately we were on the left side and we didn’t really get anything thrown at us, but the center part… well let’s just say that I hope they wore the poncho correctly.
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We then went to an italian restaurant at the Venetian… and FINALLY I found a proper pizza in this country. Because AMERICANS CANNOT MAKE PIZZAS! There I said it, whatever John says, US pizzas are fail, end of the story. However, this restaurant we found was simply put awesome! I wish the crust had a little flour on it like I like but that’s only because I wanna be picky, apart from that it was without a doubt the best pizza ever in the US!
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Monday
Finally Monday we had one last buffet at Harrah’s thanks to other vouchers for discounts that we bought, not as good as the Bellagio but for 8$ each we had a really nice lunch before leaving!
Overall we didn’t really play much, or rather I should say I didn’t play much, Lin however did lose 35$ and I lost 5$ on slot machines. We didn’t really have time for me to try a poker tourney, I don’t really like the slot machines and apart from Blackjack that I knew a little I had no idea how any of the other games’ rules like Craps, Three Kind Poker etc… I’ll be sure to read about it online before I go next time!
Anyway, this was a great week end, but we’ll definitely never go back in July, the heat was insane, I really can’t stress how hot it was… to give you a better idea here’s what two women were discussing behind us in the queue for the buffet: they read in the newspaper that some dude decided to run barefoot after the mailman that had just passed by, 5 seconds after he stepped outside the guy’s foot had blisters, he collapsed from the pain and burned his knees… yeah… it was just that hot!
Make sure to check out the pictures on the Gallery, I haven’t uploaded a quarter of them on the front page compared to what’s in the Gallery! And check out the new Video section that should be up tomorrow, I’ll be uploading a few videos from the trip!
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La trad en francais des que j’ai le temps, ca m’a pris 2h pr écrire ce post en anglais… pour les impatients => google translate!
N’oubliez pas d’aller voir la Gallerie et la nouvelle section Video, je vais y mettre qq video de notre séjour à Vegas!
