las vegas, sep 02 

 

 

Our trip to Las Vegas. We spent 6 days and 5 fun-filled nights in September, 2002.


Welcome to Las Vegas! Here's "The Strip" from the top of the Stratosphere! We stayed at the Mirage! ...and saw these guys' show! The happy couple before we threw all of our quarters in the machines Treasure Island... Arrrgghhh! Every night mass quantities of people showed up to watch a Buccaneer Show with the sinking of a British frigate On to Caesar's Palace...
Rich enjoys the sites! Lots of... ...statues... ...of naked... ...or near naked... ...men!! There's Caesar (and Baby Caesar too)!
No CaptionDoes Rich look lucky? No CaptionMmmwa!!! Bellagio!! The shopping area No CaptionThe lobby ceiling has a display of 2,000 hand-blown glass flowers - the Fiori di Como, created by Tacoma, WA based artist Dale Chihuly
A sheik model selling perfume in the shopping area Conservatory and Botanical Gardens at the BellagioNo CaptionA seasonal display of 7,500 plants, trees and flowers... ...this is changed for the holidays 6 to 8 times a yearGuess what the theme is for this display! No Caption
The Fountains of Bellagio! We stumbled across an awesome water show to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brighton's "Time to Say Goodbye" The Bellagio Fountain is one-fifth of a mile long (900 feet), with 1,200 nozzles and 4,500 lightsThe Monte Carlo No CaptionNew York New York Brooklyn Bridge is one-fifth the size of the one over the East River, which spans 1,595 feet. The original took nearly 16 years to build. Las Vegas' version took just four months. September 11 Tribute
150 foot "mini" Statue of LibertyThe Excalibur No CaptionThe Luxor We saw these guys too! Very cool show! Rich playing with timed exposures at the Luxor A searchlight beaming from the top of the pyramid can reach several miles into the sky
The MGM Grand The Aladdin No CaptionParisThe Las Vegas copy of the Eiffel Tower is half-scale of the original. The observation deck, at 460 feet, is half the height of the Stratosphere Tower observation platform Rich's... ...photography at its best!
Glass ceiling in the lobby of Paris Live statues! The Flamingo, named after resort hotels in Miami. originally opened on New Year's Eve 1946. Now, it's just an old, dumpy place. No CaptionThe Venetian The Rialto BridgeDoges Palace
No CaptionNo CaptionWax figures at Maddam Tussaud's Museum Harrison Ford getting a liftA Borg is allowing Diane to replicate his image......and a Klingon from Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas HiltonThe Stratosphere is the highest point in Las Vegas and also the tallest accessible tower (1149 feet) in America (the Space Needle is 605 feet)
A visit to the Hoover Dam, the highest concrete dam in the Western Hemisphere... ...and 725 feet about the Colorado RiverIntake TowersHydroelectric generators The desert, 45 minutes outside of Vegas Rich, out wandering in the desert for 40 years... well, more like 10 minutes (actually, he was looking for rattlesnakes or dead bodies) No Caption