Las Vegas: Day 3

As you can guess by the title of this post, Day 3 of my Vegas Trip will be the main focus. The day started by getting up extremely early and getting on a bus to see the Hoover Dam.

The bus ride was supposed to be only 55 minutes long, but due to the Holiday traffic and the bomb scare in Detroit it was going to be longer. Our driver, Steve, told us right off the bat that it would be 20 to 30 minutes longer than usual. And the U.K. couple sitting behind me let out their frustration known.

Everybody has heard someone go off and doing some pretty crazy cussing, but I am now convinced that people from the U.K. treat cussing as a true art form. This guy worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.

And this guy certainly knew if curse words. I am no stranger to cussing myself, but this guy could put anyone to shame. I wish I could write all of the things that he said, but I know my mom and a couple of my Aunts read this and I don't want to piss them off at all.

After an hour into the drive, the guy finally calmed down a little and we reached the Hoover Damn. We were told that we only had 2 hours to do whatever we liked but was recommended to take to underground tour first so we wouldn't be left behind If we were, it would be about a $ 300 taxi ride back to our hotel.

The 9 of us took the underground tour of the Hoover Dam and it was pretty impressive. It took 5 years to make the dam and they had several different shifts working 24 hours and only gave each man 2 days off a year. Even though several people died making the dam, they finished ahead of schedule and under budget.

Seeing the Damn Dam (I couldn't resist that immature joke, and I am pretty sure you said it while reading this post as well) was really cool. Half of the dam is on the Arizona side with the other portion is obviously on the Nevada side.

Once we checked out the Hoover Dam Museum and participated in the games, it was time to get back on the bus on head to the look out point on Lake Mead. Here is some knowledge for you, Lake Mead is the largest man-made lake in America. Don't ever say you cant learn something from this almost never read blog.

The lookout point was OK, nothing really interesting to see. A person could probably get the same feeling by looking at a lake from their own town. After the look at point stop came the chocolate store stop. This stop would be the most retarded and time wasting stop ever.

The stop was going to be at the Ethel M. and M&Ms Candy Store. Ethel M is the founder of the Mars Candy Corporation and apparently she loves wasting people's time. There was tour that people could take, but it was a self guided tour. So if you couldn't read or were already bored out of your mind, this would not be the tour for you. Another bad thing about the tour was we were supposed to watch people make chocolate, but all of the workers had the day off since it was Sunday. We were allotted an hour for this stop but we were done with in 15 minutes.

After much deliberation and convincing the bus driver to let us back on the bus, the whole tour group was ready to go and get back to gambling and watch the Cowboys Game.

Everyone was pretty tired from spending the whole day either riding in a bus or standing looking at a dam. A couple of us watched the game from the sports book area (that is where you can bet on all kinds of sports) and made some bets on the pony races. I only made to half time before I retired to my room to take a quick nap before we went to Fremont Street for the night.

An hour and a half later, I woke up refreshed and found out the Cowboys won the game. Because of this, I knew it was time to go out and have some fun on Fremont Street. We had to take a cab there, but it wasn't that bad. It may have cost 6 bucks a person as long as there were 4 of us in the cab.

Once we got there, the light show began on the ceiling of the covered area. It lasted about 10 minutes or so and it featured the Guy who Sang "American Pie". OK I was just told that the guy who sings that song is Don McLean.

The whole group went to Fremont Street we probably stayed there way too long. We visited every casino they had at least twice and went to every bar as well. It was all in good fun though.

Slowly throughout the night, everyone left in small groups to back to the hotel and call it a night. The only ones left were Scott, Paul, Katie and Myself. After a couple of more drinks and some more gambling, the 4 of us decided to head back to the hotel and figure out what we were going to do since it was out last night in Vegas.

Once regrouped at the Monte Carlo, the girls wanted to out to a club by themselves so all of the guys decided just to check out a couple of the hotels and casinos that we have not been to yet.

We were only out for about an hour while we checked out the Luxor and Excalibur when we decided to call it a night as well.

Day 4 Coming soon, and hopefully it will be a short one.