Vegas Day 1

Thursday 25th January.

This was a long day, three hour wait at airport then 1.5hr flight to Amsterdam. Another 3 hour wait at the airport before boarding flight to Memphis. After what seamed like two hours into the journey and I thought we were well on the way the captain announced that the travelling time was 9.5 hrs and we were currently over Birmingham and then going over Manchester and Dublin. AAAaaaggghhhhhh. Got to Memphis and when going through the scanner I set the alarm off despite getting through Birmingham and Amsterdam ok. Turns out the metal button on my jeans were setting the alarm off, however I did get worried when the Customs guy put he's rubber gloves on. Another three hour wait before getting the Las Vegas flight which was three hours, dozed all the way. Las Vegas airport is huge and you have to go for miles before you get to the carosels to collect your bags. Got taxi to Plaza downtown hotel which took 20 mins and cost just over $20. Apparantly a few minutes before I arrived a bloke had gone through the windscreen of a car whilst attempting to cross the road. Hotel was massive and nice enough for only $36 a night had two queen size beds to choose from. I was going to go straight to bed however on looking out the window at the bright neon lights of the freemont experience I decide I had to take a quick look around. The Freemont street experience is dead opposite the hotel, it's basically a covered walkway over dozens of Casino's and eateries. The roof however is one huge plasma screen and every hour on the hour it plays a 10 minute light show which is worth seeing, I think they said it's the equivalent of 10'000 plasma screens linked together.Had a look in the downtown casino's including Binions horseshoe which is supposed to be where Poker started in Vegas. Large casino but nothing special, poker room not that big, have daily $70 tournaments three times a day. Too tired to even think about playing poker so ended up watching for five minutes before watching people play roulette, couple of older guys were betting thousands on red/black. The waitresses here were quite old, and there was one who looked like Dolly Partan's grandmother, skinny with hair down to her back side but they were all wearing tiny tight red shorts. Yuck!!They have outside bars in the Freemont experience and they were selling Frozen Margharita's in glasses the size of your head. Had a couple of Bud Lights whilst looking around the other casino's before going to bed at around one in the morning.