LAS VEGAS!!

hola ya'll!!

well it is less than a week until we will be leaving the US of A and be back home in the land down under. it is a strange thought after america being my home sweet home for the past 3 months. but we are still going, and in our second last stop of our travels...the place of dreams and hopes lost in the harsh beauty of the desert and mountains!!! LAS VEGAS!!!

well we arrived on friday evening, after our flight from colorado springs to denver and also our flight from denver to las vegas had been delayed, 30 mins and an hour respectively!!! so we arrived to the extremely hot (but thank God! not humid!!!!) which of course made the heat bearable!!! our first impression of las vegas was a rather strange sight, not something that you would see here. slot machines and posters advertising all kinds of things from girls to shows. i think that it is very safe to say that las vegas is a place like no other!!!

our fist day here, we got up to the lovely smell of blueberry pancakes cooking!!! (they were really nice, considering that i hate blueberries!!! but i didnt have the heart to tell julie that!!!) and then took rocco the beautiful chocolate lab retriever and went for a hike up a mountain that is a ski resort in the winter. also saw some wild horses in the distance! we had a lovely picnic up the top of this mountain, no one else around over looking the beautiful desert and mountains (an no im not being sarcastic!! it really was beautiful. the best sabbath experience you could ask for!!)

and so just to see how much of a contrast we could get! we spent a couple of hours on the stip that night, having a look around, and just generally being amazed at the splendor of some of these places!!! their are soo soooo soooo many of them, all of them 1000 times bigger than burswood (an im NOT kidding!) most of them with their little themes and such! was soo amazing, just another world in its self! i have to say that cesars def has the best interior. made out like a huge roman town, with the forum shops made to feel like it is out side with the fountains, and the roof painting like a nice summer day sky, and the coblestone street, and the roman soldiers posted on the walls of the courtyard! was awesome!!! and the outside of the venitan was terrific, with walls like ancient europe, and the venice cannals where you can go on a gondala ride!!! was terrific!!!

i have to say though that the most enjoyable time we had ALL night was when we took a tour of Madame Tuassades!!!! (the wax works of people that look real!) was soo cool!! so we took our picture with woopi goldberg, brad pitt, frank sinatra, got married to GEORGE CLOONEY!!! and had my picture taken with (guess who mum, beacky and ris?! just to make you jealous!!!) BONO! (my hero!) as well as elvis an lots an lots of others of course!!! was sooo much fun! oh and we also told bush that he was an idiot!! :) was lots of fun!

unfortuantely we JUST missed the belagio show (water feature...oceans 11 if you cant remember!) and was not going to wait around at treasure island (miss congeniality!) for 30 mins in a jam packed area where we couldnt see anything, as we had better things to do! so we are going back again tonight to see those two! :) after we finish a beautiful meal of homemade pizza!

today we spent the afternoon (after a sleep in recovery of last night!!!) driving around red rock, where their are some beautiful mountains of rock, with different colours streaking all the way through them. was really beautiful!!! we may take a walk again their tomorro before we leave, their is a little spring with ponds and palm tree and such with is supposed to be really beautiful, right bang smake in the middle of the desert! so that will be cool!

well im going to run and get ready for another night on the town!! ;P just joking!!! (kinda...i am going into town and it is at night, just not in that context! :D) so i shall say adios! and i love you all!!!

your lella

oh and dad...just wanted to say HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!! for....yesterday...although it is sunday here so you could say that i wasnt late!!! :D but i luv ya lots an lots an lots daddy boy, and im sorry that neither of our little girls where their to make you something! but we do love you and were thinking of you, and ill make you somthing when i get home!! (in less than a week!)
your darling little girl :D