Las Vegas: You Turn Day into Nighttime

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Carpet of the MGM Grand: there was about a kilometre of gaming

between our hotel room and an exit

Carpet of the MGM Grand: some days it was just better to look at this

than take in the gamers gaming...

Carpet of the MGM Grand: ... you know.. the HOUSE ALWAYS WINS

The Sign, and tourists getting their photo taken with The Sign.

Close to the sign, looking away from The Strip: desert.

The MGM Grand and a gold limo driving past it

Our hotel room view: Hooters Hotel and Casino

Diablos 

The World's Largest Gift Shop

Iron Horse

Artistic Iron

Sahara Hotel & Casino Liquidation Sale

Neon sign fail

Las Vegas: You turn Night into Daytime

Caesars Palace

Caesars Palace Shopping Forum: fake sky

Caesars Palace Shopping Forum fountain

Handbags: on heads

Spiral escalator

Elvis selling $1 bottles of water

ADVENTURE

MGM Lions

Leo and Mikey hassling girls at the lights

SHINY

SO SHINY IT BURNS MY EYES

Zabriskie Point

During the planning of our trip to Death Valley, Dan Bourke screened Zabriskie Point at PICA. This site is on the way Furnace Creek - where we stayed. It is the off-season for visiting this area. Only European couples in matching outfits were there. We went to Zabriskie Point at sunset in an attempt to avoid heat.

On the far right: a couple with yellow matching t-shirts

Driving in the Desert

This is our Red Fusion. We drove it from Anaheim to Baker to Furnace Creek, Death Valley

It is a good red car, even though most of the things are on the wrong side.

I thought we left amazing fake rocks behind in Disneyland, until I saw these on the side of the freeway.

Scott driving on the wrong side of the road. He is an awesome driver in any country.

Driving on Badwater Road

86m below sea level. Being below sea level in summer is a bad idea.

the desire to write names on things knows no limits

Dantes View

The making of Death Valley

Grand Californian: Disneyland, Anaheim

So we check in and the guy at the desks asks what are we celebrating? Scott said Holiday? I said Disneyland? The guy went and got us balloons and badges that said "I'm Celebrating!"

Scott: celebrating.

Mickey Mouse motif carpet and life-saving cold medication.

Snow White artwork on the hotel wall.

Bambi motif shower curtain.

Woodlands motif bed.

Disney fashion: go hard or go home. In the many many many gift shops we kept saying to each other: "We're not coming back here next week. Just get it."

Photo courtesy Scott

Chip. or Dale, not sure. They hang out at breakfast in the Grand Californian's Storytellers Cafe. 

Chip-or-Dale admiring Scott's Disney pin collection. 

When I was little I was afraid of Humphrey B Bear. You can tell from this photo with a misc. Disney bear, I may have not completely moved on.