what do 2 english chicks, a couple of swedes and some mad aussies have in common?? well, in this case, both a passion for travelling and the fact that we were all in vegas at the same time. we met Eric and Lovisa in NYC, Jo in San Diego and Charlene in Las Vegas...it's one of the most wonderful things about backpacking - you can easily meet awesome, fun, interesting, incredibly well travelled people from all over the world...and, if you have a little bit of vegas luck, you might even end up meeting up with them again...and again. we all met up for a couple of drinks after dinner yesterday evening and ended up staying out all night...its easy to do in sin city. we moved from hotel to hotel...a dollar in the pokies here and a couple of drinks there...sometime in the wee hours we found ourselves in downtown Las Vegas - the original vegas of the rat pack era...where nowadays the streets are seedy and the bets are cheap. It was here that i found myself somehow winning $90 on roulette (must have been cause i was wearing my lucky undies!) and floating home on a cloud....one very happy gambler.
vegas can be an expensive city for the budget conscious backpacker. the place is drowning in glitz and gold, prada and gucci, but if you're a little savvy and are prepared to do a few strange things to save a buck - you can enjoy all vegas has to offer. in the spirit of this we sacrificed our morning to get our hands on $20 tix to a vegas show (usually $80). you dont get anything for nothing in this town and so we allowed ourselves to be dragged miles outside the strip and sit through 4 hours of incredibly boring spiel...do we want to buy a timeshare? no thanks....we just want our cheap show tickets thanks - we're backpackers. and out the door we fled.
but tonight, as we watched high flying acrobats, trampolining fairies, swirling whirling costumes and comedic babies a morning lost in las vegas became an evening gained. 'Mystique' by cirque du soleil was an exotic, eye popping show......incredible and beautiful - i don't think i blinked for 2 hours!
viva las vegas!
xx
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hey you guys - good to see you're living it up and making the most of everyplace you go! so glad you updated your blog today, i'm trawling my fave sites waiting to get tired enough to sleep! Where to next?
xo
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