Monday, July 10, 2000

Las Vegas, NV

Breakfast this morning was at 10am at the Hard Rock Hotel – but of course, I’m with Dave & Melissa. 

From here we caught a cab down to Mandalay Bay where we went into the new aquarium exhibit – Shark Reef.  This was OK, but nothing compared to Denver.  We jumped on a monorail that went past the Luxor to the Excalibur.  We walked through this and New York New York Casinos to get to the Manhattan Express Rollercoaster, which Melissa and I went on.  This would have to be the scariest roller coaster I have ever been on as I was still shaking half an hour later.  We crossed the road to the MGM where we caught the monorail to Bally’s. 

From here it was a quick cab ride to the Sahara, where we met up with Kendra and Mike at the Nascar Café.  They have another rollercoaster here – which starts and stays at 90 miles per hour.  It goes under the sidewalk, through a loop and around the Sahara front entrance before going straight up (in about 45 seconds) before doing everything backwards to the beginning.  I think I was lucky to hold down anything I’d eaten from the last week.  What a ride!  Had another beer in the café before crossing the road to the Holy Cow Restaurant, where we had dinner – mmmm steak.  We jumped into Kendra’s van and went back to Dave and Melissa’s for a couple of drinks before going up to the mini golf arena, where we played around.  Once finished we played arcade games and got into the baseball batting cage, where I was hitting balls coming at me at 60 miles per hour  (normally they come at 90).  Although afterwards my hands hurt we definitely had a ball (no pun intended).  We didn’t get back home until 3am and I think I was asleep before my head hit the pillow.

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