First day in Las Vegas

I am back!

Vacation is over and what are remaining are the good memories. We had a great two weeks in Las Vegas!

For starters the weather was a constant balmy 107 degree Fahrenheit and up with no clouds on the sky for the entire time. People say yeah, but it is dry and no humidity.
At that temperature it does not matter. Hot is hot and I sweated like a expectant cow.

To start at the beginning, we flew first class from JFK to Las Vegas. This was not because I am independently wealthy it was because that was how the flying with mileage turned out. Man, it was nice. They were kissing our behinds all the way. One can really get used to this. Ok, so on the way back we flew with the riffraff in the tail end of the plane but hey, half good is better than no good!

We got to LV on time, picked up our rental car and drove to our hotel which we found fairly easy. Checked in, unpacked and set off to the first of many discovery trips.

Anybody who ever was in Las Vegas doesn't need a description what the Strip looks like as a first or even second impression. We just stood there with our mouth open and jaws dropped at the sights. It was unbelievable. The sights, the lights, the mas of humanity and all this thrown together is something for the senses.

Anyway, we walked around and eventually went to our first Las Vegas buffet for dinner. Buffets are a Las Vegas event as much as gambling. Every hotel offers it at variously high, medium, low or lower prices. We went to a few and liked them but found that basically they were all pretty much alike. None of them offered caviar or oysters or champagne but roast beef, pasta and meat balls and chinese food. But regardless they were mostly good.

One can not die of hunger in LV. Restaurants overwhelm each other. Every possible and impossible chain is represented there. From White Castle through Mac Donald's through Cheesecake Factory through all the name chefs have places where one can eat.

One problem we had that that it was not easy to get in to better restaurants later in the evenings without reservation but eventually we solved that problem too.

At the beginning we started at one end of the Strip and diligently walked from hotel to hotel and looked at everything lookable carefully avoiding the casinos.

First day we actually didn't do all this but just drove around the Strip, got ourselves oriented, went to a buffet and then walked around. In LV one can not tell time out on the Strip. The mass of humanity does not reduce because of the lateness of the time. It can be two, three or four o'clock in the morning and one can not tell the difference. Still it was around 3:30 in the morning by the time we got to bed. Dead tired, naturally.

With the travel it was a really long day.