"New" Las Vegas is not the easiest place to walk around. There are pedestrian bridges over many of the busy roads so traffic is not stopped by tourists (like us) walking around. The below picture was taken from one of those pedestrian bridges.
The pedestrian bridges many times go in and out of hotels or shopping malls so it is not an easy walk down the strip. We made our way up to the Bellagio where we saw our first fountain show.
This particular fountain show was to the music of Lee Greenwood's "Proud to be an American" was our favorite.
Since we were hungry, we decided to go into the Bellagio and try one of those famous Las Vegas "all-you-can-eat" buffets. The food was very good but it was at an expensive Bellagio price. After eating ourselves miserable, we continued walking up the strip. We walked by Bally's Paris Hotel & Casino,
the Flamingo,
and the Mirage.
Las Vegas is a great place to people watch. There were Elvis impersonators, people dressed up as cartoon characters like Spiderman and Sponge Bob and movie characters like Darth Vader and Transformers, and chorus line girls...all available for you to have your picture taken with them for a tip. There were also street performers on several of the pedestrian bridges and some of them were pretty good.
We walked as far north as Treasure Island Hotel and Casino and watched their "free" pirate show complete with pirates, pretty "ladies," fireworks, and a sinking pirate ship. As we headed back, we noticed a very unusual spiral escalator inside Caesar's Palace. Of course, we had to go in and ride this!
After riding up and down the escalator a couple of times, we looked for the "moving statues" but they had already closed down or stopped moving for the evening when we got to them. We continued walking further into Caesar's Palace to an inside shopping mall. The ceiling made it look like it was still daylight outside but it was actually close to midnight.
On the way back to the car, we stopped for one more fountain show at the Bellagio.
When we went back to Las Vegas the next night we ate cheap at McDonalds and then parked at the same parking lot so we could walk around a little bit more. We first went to M&M's World where we saw the world's largest wall of M&Ms. Sweet! :)
From outside M&M's World, we could see New York-New York Hotel & Casino,
Excalibur Hotel & Casino,
and the trademark Lion outside MGM's Hotel & Casino.
We headed back north up the strip where we could watch the Bellagio fountains a couple of more times plus we wanted to see the volcano erupt at The Mirage.
After watching the volcano eruption, we went back to the car and drove up to "old" Las Vegas on Fremont Street. There was a big screen that covered most of the street where they had a big light and music show. Lastly, we drove to Circus-Circus.
As I have told you before, when I was a kid, my parents and I went out west for our summer vacations in a pop-up camper with no air conditioning. Las Vegas was one of the last stops on our first trip out west. All I remember about Las Vegas is that it was 114 degrees at midnight and that we went to Circus-Circus where there was a casino in the middle on the bottom floor, a circus act going on up above the casino, and arcade games for the kids all around the second floor above the casino.
Guess what! After many, many years (we won't say how many), Circus-Circus has not changed much at all. The casino is still on the bottom, the circus acts are still above the casino, and there are still arcade games around the second floor. We watched the last circus act of the evening which was pretty good.
We gambled just a little bit, lost $12.50, and decided to call it a night. Viva Las Vegas!
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