Hot hot hot,,,,,Las Vegas

As were were literally passing through Las Vegas, we decided to stop and spend a couple of nights.  Las Vegas has one campground on the "Strip".  This is a KOA at Circus Circus.  We have since heard that the KOA campground will be closing in 90 days!  So camping on the strip is soon going to be a thing of the past!  We had called ahead and booked our two nights and were given directions to the campground. Of course the directions were either relayed incorrectly,,,,,or I wrote them down wrong. Whatever!!!!  If we had our GPS then it would have been a non-issue.  After driving around aimlessly for about 30 minutes and keeping our eye on the gigantic Circus Circus sign as that was were we wanted to be, we finally arrived at the spot we were supposed to be.  Did I have a massive stress headache?  YUP!!!  Anyway after getting all set up, we decided to walk the strip.  At the suggestion of the woman working in the KOA office, we bought a 24 hour bus ticket which allows you to hop on and off as you wish, thankfully!  It was 107 degrees!!!  We got on the bus in front of Circus Circus and rode it right to Mandolay Bay.  We walked back as far as Ceasars Palace, by going through the casinos along the way because it was way too hot for this old bird outside!!  Of course we had to play some slots along the way.  Ray immediately won $100 which of course was pretty much eaten up at the next few stops.  Just outside of New York New York, we saw a couple sitting outside having a beer.  As there was an empty table I sat down and Ray went in to get the beers.  He came back looking slightly perplexed.  The two beer cost him $17.50    Was he impressed?  Not!  Did I care…..nope…that beer was nice and cold!

One of my favourite Hotels to go into is the Bellagio for it's beautiful gardens.  Ray's favourite thing about the Bellagio is the chocolate dipped strawberries!  Mine is the garden, but the strawberries were yummy too!

 This snail is covered in roses!

As we walk from casino to casino we pretty much stick to the newer Casinos as the older ones are way to smokey for my lungs.  The heat surprisingly enough didn't seem to bother my lungs at all which I find really odd.  By the end of the day Ray's feet and knees were killing him!  When we got to Ceasar's Palace we bought our tickets to see Shania Twain on Saturday night.

Another favourite hotel is the Wynn.  The gardens there are beautiful too.

Yes this is Popeye eating his spinach!

Carousel covered in roses

By the time we got back to our campsite, we were exhausted!  Early night for us that was for sure.  Saturday morning we decided to unhook the truck and find the Camping World store.  We wanted to see if they had any cheap GPS's.  After a lot of driving around we did find it and were quite surprised that it was so small!  We bought a few things, but not a GPS.  We went from there and staying on Las Vegas Blvd ended up at one of the Outlet Malls (surprise surprise).  I can find a mall anywhere even without a GPS!  It wasn't me who did the majority of the shopping this time, it was Ray.  The guy who hates to shop bought himself some new duds!  We pretty much spent the majority of the day at the mall as it is so large and it was nice and cool there!!

Guess who?

Later that night we shared some appies and had some drinks (no complaining of the price this time) before heading to the Shania concert.  We had seen Shania in Vancouver about 10 years ago and were quite impressed with how down to earth she was.  She got people up on the stage with her and even came out into the crowd.  We were not sure what to expect because, after all this was a Las Vegas show!  She did not disappoint us at all and I am very surprised that for a big star that she did come out into the audience many times!  She allowed people to take photos of themselves with her.  She was surrounded by people and it was impossible to get close to her, but I did manage to be right beside her.  I could have touched her.  I turned around to make sure Ray was going to get a photo but he was a bit slow on getting his phone out.  He did get this picture of her as she was walking away.   It isn't a great shot, but you can see how she just comes out and greats people.

She played for about an hour and 3/4 and had an amazing light show.  I would recommend if you are in Vegas when she is playing take in her show.  She ended the show with her song "I feel like a woman" and this light show behind her.  Oh and no she did not ride out on a horse at any time.

All in all we had a great time in Vegas, we do prefer going when it is a bit cooler out though.  It is just a bit more pleasant being outdoors if it isn't 107 degrees!

After about a 5 hour drive we arrived in Malibu at our favourite campground.  From Vegas I had called and pre booked our site.  Malibu RV Park is were we will be hanging our hat for the next two weeks.  I will likely post another page next week.  Stay tuned!