Sunday, March 01, 2020

Sunday Randomness #245 : a little leap to Las Vegas for a few days part 8

             They close off Fremont Street to only pedestrian traffic at certain times of the evening and night and the one section of the street has a light show and videos displayed on the huge arcing domed roof stretching down the street behind us in the picture above.

Across the street from entering the Fremont Street Exprience.


The pictures above shows some of the light show on the roof over Fremont St.


 Fremont St has certainly changed from when I saw the man on the horse many, many years ago.  Back then you could easily drive down this strip of Las Vegas which was famous for casinos and other things even then.
 The mantis antennae lit up in time with music.


  

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Sunday Randomness #245 : a little leap to Las Vegas for a few days part 6

Food!  Tasting treats from bakeries to restuarants to the M and M store and Hershey's (where I forgot to take any pictures).

The Dragon Breath at Chocolate Chair was unique-they were crunchy, slightly sweet balls of cereal with liquid nitrogen added.  The result is everyone expelling "smoke" like a dragon after eating some of the concoction.  While not extremely tasty, it wasn't bad and was a fun group activity since one cup is plenty for a small group of people.

Daisy contemplating all the choices in milk, dark, peanut, almond, other flavors like mint and cherry, and colors along with skittles in the huge room-sized display of bulk wares offered at the M & M store.

All of us holding different highly priced dispensers.  We just bought our treats and ate them straight out of the bag.
Daisy playing around at Sushi Roku in Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada. Notice Mica pointedly ignoring her.

This was a random local place that we found just driving around but they were so nice and the food was good.  If you're in the area, check out Tasty Island Jamaican Restaurant.

 Carlo's Bake Shop was the number one place we definitely did not want to miss on our trip-all the other food outings were just incidental and we just stopped at whatever was in the neighborhood.  Here's Daisy, Mica, and Hedgehog waiting in line.  Daisy and I had watched some of Cake Boss in earlier years.
 So many treats from eclairs...
 to  chocolate dipped strawberries...
 to cake slices and brownies...
to cookies, cannolis, and the famous lobster tail pastries.  The lobster tail pastries were delicious as were the other treats we bought.  
We enjoyed eating out but we also bought groceries and had breakfast, lunch, and snacks in the hotel room.  

Monday, February 24, 2020

Sunday Randomness #245 : a little leap to Las Vegas for a few days part 5

And the wax museum in  Las Vegas?  Yes, it's worth the price of admission.  https://www.madametussauds.com/las-vegas/en/  Here's just a smattering of things we saw:

Bette Midler, Mica, and and Celine Dion 


 Hedgehog flanked by Elvis and Louis ArmstrongDaisy and Dwayne "The Rock" JohnsonUpper photo-the kids staring up at Shaquille O'Neal.  Me with Marilyn Monroe and Donny and Marie Osmond and Wolfgang Puck in the background.

Saturday, February 22, 2020

Sunday Randomness #245 : a little leap to Las Vegas for a few days part 4

The Mob Museum (per Mica's request) was more interesting than I originally anticipated.  Mica really wanted to see the museum on our trip to Las Vegas.  It was not crowded at all and there was adequate parking which is now a rarity in the tourist parts of the city.  They have their own distillery in the basement.  For more information visit their website: https://themobmuseum.org/








Thursday, February 20, 2020

Sunday Randomness #245 : a little leap to Las Vegas for a few days part 3

Coca-Cola!




Samples of Coca-cola products served around the world.


 The store where we had our picture taken with the Coca-cola polar bear.