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Roller coaster inside & outside the New York New York Hotel-Casino At Pearson Airport moments before leaving for Vegas trip (Patrick, Cathy, Matthew, Albert) At Pearson Airport moments before leaving for Vegas trip (Joanne, Matthew, Albert, Cathy) Some groovy-lookin' palm trees Arriving in Las Vegas from airport
MGM Grand Lion eating his way through the traffic lights The strip at day New York New York Hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 New York New York Hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Downtown, Las Vegas, March Break 2009
Matthew, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Casino at New York New York Hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Casino at New York New York Hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Looking down from the window of my 36th floor hotel room at New York New York Hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Fountain outside of Monte Carlo Hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 2009
View from the room Another View from the room Roller coaster at New York New York, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Roller coaster at New York New York, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Monte Carlo Hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 2009
New York New York Hotel, seen from the back of hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Matthew, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Monte Carlo Hotel, from the entrance looking up, our first day in Vegas, where we went for dinner, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 ANOTHER pic of the Monte Carlo Hotel, but a nice one, though, no?  What with the stunning palm trees in the foreground and all? Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Matthew with his Papo, Las Vegas, March Break 2009
On-going construction project in the middle of the strip, 'City Center', Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Matthew, in front of the fountain outside of Monte Carlo Hotel, with some good-lookin' guy...oh, wait: that's ME... Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Papo & Nanny, (Albert & Cathy), Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Matthew with his Nanny, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Polo Towers, Downtown, Las Vegas, March Break 2009
Cool, lotsa-lights area, outside the Planet Hollywood & Paris Hotels, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Zoom-in of Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Outside the Paris Hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Outside the Paris Hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 2009
Caesar's Palace Hotel, taken from far away via zoom lens, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Outside the Paris Hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Base of the Eiffel Tower at the Paris Hotel, with some of the 250,000 fake rivets added for authenticity, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Fish-eye type view of the Paris Hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 The Bellagio sign from far back, Las Vegas, March Break 2009
Paris Hotel, taken from across the street, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Another of the Paris Hotel, taken from across the street, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Las Vegas Blvd. at night, a Tuesday night, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Outside the Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Outside Bally's Hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 2009
Outside Bally's Hotel, all awash in some groovy blue lighting, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Zoom-in on the Bally's sign, bit blurry, but not bad considering I was 5,000 feet back; Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Looking towards the westbound-moving traffic along Las Vegas Blvd., from a pedestrian overpass, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Looking towards the eastbound-moving traffic along Las Vegas Blvd., from a pedestrian overpass, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Looking up at the Eiffel Tower at the Paris Hotel, an exact to-scale copy of the original in Paris, France; Las Vegas, March Break 2009
Inside the lobby of the Paris Hotel, with the base of the Eiffel Tower coming right through the roof, into the lobby itself; Las Vegas, March Break 2009 MORE of the lobby of the Paris Hotel, (TOO cool!), Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Joanne, looking like she's just about getting ready to put the lampshade on her head, and dance the 'Cha-Cha', Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Looking out onto 'Lake Mead' from the centre of Hoover Dam, Trip To Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Joanne, on bridge in front of The Excaliber Hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 20
Big-Ass 'ebay' slot machine, 'New York, New York Casino', Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Skylight in the 'Mandalay Bay Hotel', Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Pool & Wave Pool at the 'Mandalay Bay Hotel', Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Walking to the Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay, through The Excaliber, across this super-shiny floor, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 In the parking lot of, looking onto, the Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 2009
Another quite attractive picture of Mandalay Bay Hotel, so nice it could be a postcard, but taken by me; Las Vegas, March Break 2009 The bypass high above Hoover Dam, which is eventually going to meet up and form a bridge; trip to Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Entrance, gift shop, etc. at the Hoover Dam, trip to Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Looking down, from the Nevada side of the Hoover Dam, trip to Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Looking straight across, from the Nevada side of the Hoover Dam, trip to Las Vegas, March Break 2009
Joanne, Cathy, Albert, Matthew & Me, at the Hoover Dam, on the border of Nevada & Arizona, Trip To Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Me, Cathy, Albert & Matthew, in front of that DUMP Circus Circus, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Big gold-coloured lion in front of the MGM Grand hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Close-up of the sign outside the Treasure Island hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Outside of the Venetian hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 2009
Replica of the Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy, outside of the Venetian hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 (this actually came out a bit blurry, so I painted it in watercolour to mask the blur) The Mirage hotel, with something new (to me, at least): using the top section for advertising, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Replica of San Marco's Square in Venice, Italy, but here, in Vegas, it is INSIDE of the Venetian hotel (in Venice it is outside), Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Ceiling inside the Venetian hotel, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Backs of Joanne & Matthew, as we were walking into the Venetian hotel's lobby, made to look like you are actually walking outside (hard to see the fake sky in this picture, but VERY cool!), Las Vegas, March Break 2009
Ahh, this is a much better look at the Venetian hotel's lobby, made to look like outside, very realistic, AND built to the exact scale to anything corresponding in Italy; Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Again, inside the Venetian hotel's lobby, made to look like outside, including the river, gondola's, bridges: Amazing! Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Outside the Treasure Island hotel, where they were putting on the pirate show, with 2 ships in a pond/lagoon; Las Vegas, March Break 2009 McLaren Airport, day we left town, Las Vegas, March Break 2009 Another shot of McLaren Airport, Las Vegas, March Break 2009

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