We left the Gaylord hotel room at about 10am, checked out and waited around for our shuttle. Once it arrived we headed down to the airport.
Not much to say about the airport junk. Fairly long line to get checked in - the stupid woman didn't understand the concept of us not needing to pay for bag checking. Thankfully someone else she called for help did (who spoke to her like she was an idiot, it was hilarious).
Got through check in, got through security (you have to take your shoes and jackets off here...can't remember if I mentioned that before) and had about 5 minutes to spare til boarding time.
The flight was relatively dull, they played 17 Again on the tvs that hang from the ceiling in the aisle. I didn't have my flight headphone adaptor with me though so I just watched while listening to music.
About 10 minutes before the end of the flight it started to get really bumpy and nasty (at least, compared to the other flights). I'm really not sure if there was anything wrong with the weather (no clouds in the sky, isn't windy in the city) or if the pilot was just shit (like suddenly tipping the plane to the right really quickly at one point, and constantly had to change his flight path) but it wasn't very cool. I figure the sickness I had came on from the stress and the movement rather than just the movement on its own. I held it together til we landed, though I'm not sure exactly what could have come up...it was 3pm Texas time and all I'd eaten was a small chocolate chip cookie at about 10ish.
Anyway so we walk out of the gate and there are poker machines. And shops. Eating places in this part, bookstores and other souvenir crap further down. We walk towards the signs that direct us to baggage collection and stop so JT can go to the bathroom. Star Wars pokies are about 5 metres away from me. Weird. I didn't get a photo, though.
From here we continued on to the baggage claim. We had to get on a small tram thing and jet over to the next terminal to pick up the bags.
Once there we got them easily and headed out the wrong door. Eventually we found the Taxi rank and hopped in.
There are so many billboards here! All shows and that sort of thing, everywhere. We could see part of the strip, but took the back way unfortunately. We got in and bam there was the arc de triomphe replica - damn cool.
I was wondering previously how the hotels do their setups with the casinos and stuff. I thought maybe you'd walk into reception and then off to another part of the building for the casino. Nope, straight into the casino, with reception off to the side.
There was a massive line to check in. I sat and waited with the baggage. After about 10-15 minutes JT came back and told me that we'd been given a room upgrade. We're now one floor away from the penthouse - crazy!
Oh and the view is ridiculously good.
I'm looking forward to checking out the shops and stuff in here, buying some souvenirs for everyone.
We just had lunch/dinner/something, room service. Too hungry to go anywhere and deal with people. I had a french dipped sandwich, which was reasonably good. They supply you with a small bowl of jus so you can dip it yourself - stops a soggy sandwich :P
Anywho, I think we might go for a wander downstairs soon. I have money burning a hole in my pocket.
JT wants to go to Fry's (electronic store of awesomeness) and they have ridiculously cheap laptops...I'm talking something you would spend $4k on in Aus for $1.5k here. Wtf. I'm almost annoyed I don't have more spending money :P
I've also got the M&Ms store/Coke museum on the list, as well as the Hard Rock cafe which is only a couple of blocks from here - I don't want to eat there, just buy a shirt or pin or something :)
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