Viva Las Vegas

Viva Las Vegas
We spend the whole day at the casinos. Well, at the children's play area around the casino. Geetha tries her hand at the slot machines - no luck. $8 in slot machines, $250 in rides, food and drink. Not a bad ratio at all, but an expensive day nevertheless. These guys are good! They will take your money and you don't even realize that you have spent it!

We spend our day at the adventure dome. It reverbates with the screams of little children. Mike Kasowski from the Monsters Inc. need not have scared little kids while they slept. He only had to come here and he could have had all the screams he needed to power his city for free. Why do people take pleasure in strapping their little children into seats and pushing them off a high precipice?

Calvin makes a new friend. Lucy is eight and is from California though she was born in Oregon (for some reason this was important to her, so I mentioned it too). They meet while standing in line for a 3D show and hit it off instantly. The rest of the day goes by in a whirl. Lucy likes to run. And she does - from ride to ride. Calvin runs with her. And so we run too. Thankfully, the rides take a few minutes each and we can rest our feet while waiting at the exit gates. We stop only at midnight at closing time. Calvin and Lucy have become inseparable and parting is such sweet sorrow! A good day; the kids had fun!

Internet access is becoming an issue. The hotel provides it at $12 but there is no way for me to access it. I cannot charge it to my room as I am a 'prepaid customer' and there seems no other way to pay. We decide to stop at a Starbucks on the way out. From what I can tell of Vegas so far, the coffee will be free but internet access will cost $10.