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Adventures in Vegas

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Category: May 2006

 J Lo turned her head as I walked into the room, but I played it cool.

18th May 2006 - This was the big day in Vegas, we did a lot of activities today.  We woke up and went down to the restaurants for breakfast. We had a hearty breakfast at Nathan's.  After that, I sat and watched as most of the grown ups went and gambled. It was a great sight for me, to see all those shiny lights and the sound of money. I can only go to the casinos after 21 years .  My father then took my cousins, aunt and Uncle to Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. It was a really hot day with the temperatures well over 100 F and the returned home quickly.

For lunch, we went Chin Chin, a Chinese restaurant in the New York, New York Casino. Ney York, New York is a new casino built on the New York theme. The hotel has the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Brooklyn Bridge etc etc. We had a nice leisurely lunch.

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After lunch, we went to the M&M stores on the Strip. The M&M Store is a three level store dedicated to all things M&M. In this store, there are different levels for chocolates, clothes, souveniers etc etc. We spent a lot of time in this store and I also got a nice photo ops with my cousins Neha, Anoushka and the first three M&M's.

After the M&M store, we went to the MGM Grand Casino where we saw the lions of MGM. We just walked around the casino before heading back to our hotel room.

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Our final stop for the evening was the Madame Tussaud's Wax Musuem at the Venetian Casino. The Venetian is probably the most beautiful casino that I saw on this trip. It has this beautiful false ceiling that looks that sky. We went to the Wax Museum and it was full of celebrities. I met so many celebrities that day (so what if they were just their wax version, I am too small to know)

  • Jennifer Lopez - you can rub her butt and she blushes :-)
  • The Rock from the WWE
  • President George Bush
  • Julia Roberts
  • Elizbeth Taylor
  • Shaquille O'Neal
  • Michael Jordan
  • Lady Diana

Too many to list.....but it was fun.

At the end of the day, we came back to the room and I quickly fell asleep. This was probably the most exciting day of my life so far.

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