The first hotel we stayed at in Las Vegas. Very friendly, lots of Brits, everyone being friendly and cool due to the pleasant vacation atmos. The steakhouses were awesome. Here’s the entrance area.

And here’s the view from our room.

Here’s me winning big on the poker machines. Four aces, woohoo!

The Excalibur is connected to the other major hotels of this area by air conditioned walkways, and considering it was 105 degrees out, they proved somewhat invaluable in allowing us to see the sights and not dying.

The giant black pyramid that is the Luxor not only had awesome interior decoration but had Blue Man Group playing. Unfortunately it was fifty bucks each so we’ll wait until they play the city. We listened to them at their merchandise stall though and they were well cool. Kind of a more psycho version of Stomp.

MGM Grand had weird jungle decor, such as giant moving butterflies and elephants and whatnot. Alligators in pits and this frog.

They also had lions, who were asleep on the glass tunnel you go through, so here’s one from below.

Heading off to the Mandalay Bay, we came across the Red Square restaurant which was well excellent. A giant headless Lenin, with his noggin in a block of ice inside, and Red Army Vodka, which has the best bottle design in the world. It’s shaped like a black artillery shell with a red cap. Mandalay Bay also has this exhibit called Shark Reef, which is wonderful. Instead of the annoying tour guide to follow you get this hand held stick, that looks like a cellphone from the eighties. Each exhibit has a number, you type it in and listen individually so you can take the tour in your own time. Giant lizards, alligators, fish, turtles, sharks of all kinds, eels and more rays to pet.

Posing in the shipwreck tank which is full of gigantic sharks cruising around menacingly all the time.