Sarah has told me that I have to write today's blog as she's busy packing. We don't have much time so it will be short. If she wishes to add any comments they'll be in blue.
Our life as a married couple began with a mid-morning trip to the bridal store to return our wedding clothes. We're glad there was no cleaning charge on the clothes as the train on Sarah's dress was filthy. On returning to our hotel we phoned Christie, Steve and Cameron to arrange a meeting time for the days activities. Sarah and I had planned a visit to the Showboat Casino but when we checked the address on the internet we found out that it was demolished 5 years ago. It had a 106 lane bowling alley and also, the last time we were here we got the majority of the licence plates we needed for our licence plate game. Oh well, never mind, we didn't have enough time anyway to be honest.
We drove to The Bellagio hotel, where our rental car was due for return by 1pm this afternoon. We arrived nice and early by about 12.20 and thank goodness for the security guard on the driveway, otherwise we would never have found where we were supposed to park the car. However, after finding the rental company office, there was a note on the door saying back at 1pm. We took a stroll through the Bellagio and went outside to watch the magnificent water display which goes off every hour. The usual large crowd stood waiting for it to start when a voice came over the PA saying it was cancelled this hour due to high winds (which we couldn't even feel). What a load of bollocks! It's just water. It won't get hurt if the wind blows on it.
Anyway we returned our car keys and then made our way back to our hotel after which Steve, Christie and Cameron came and met us. We headed down the strip and parked at New York New York. We walked over to the MGM Grand first to have another look at the lions. The others were hungry so we also had a very late lunch in the Rainforest cafe, where thunder and lightning go off every now and then and you're surrounded by trees and animals.
After leaving there we went a short way up the strip to the world's largest m&m shop. Oh my god! 4 floors of everything you can possibly imagine with m&m plastered all over it. We spent well over an hour in there, including watching a 3-D movie about m&ms.
Next up was something I'd been waiting 8 years to do again; ride the Manhattan Express rollercoaster at New York New York. I went on it when we were last in town and at the time it was the scariest coaster I'd been on. Sarah, Christie, Steve and Cameron were all huge nancies and none of them would come on it with me so I joined the queue all by myself. Someone needed to be available to ID the body if something happened. About 40 minutes later and I was strapped in next to some English dude and ready to go. It's like I remember, still darn scary especially because twice you take sharp turns while overlooking the road below from a great height. It really feels like it's going to fly off the track and plummet down onto the strip. It also does a negative G barrel roll which is pretty freaky if you're not expecting it.
I made it back alive and went off to find the others who had been spending all my quarters in the amusement arcade. Cameron had some 2100 tickets to redeem at the arcade gift shop and I think he must have bought one of just about everything on display. Someone came up to us and gave us about 1900 tickets.
Another hour or so spent at the Luxor and we were ready to return to our hotel. They dropped us back here and we said our goodbyes. It will most likely be another 10 years or so before we see them again. Christie was more than happy for us to take Cameron back to Australia with us but we just don't have the space in our suitcases. He can be a handful at times but he's also ever so adorable and fun to play with. We got along ever so well and we're now Uncle Sarah and Aunty Alan, or something to that effect.
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