Where did we stay in Las Vegas?
Since we left New York we visited many
other places like our friends house and the best part going to Disney
World! But I’ll tell you guys about that
when I get back to school. The hotel
that we stayed at was called the Cosmopolitan and is one of the biggest hotels
on the Strip.
The Strip
The Strip is a huge main street that runs
straight through the center of Las Vegas and has some amazing replicas on
either side of the road, some of them being a copy of St Marcs Square in
Venice, The Eiffel Tower in Paris, New York’s Chrysler and Empire State
Building with a huge rollercoaster going through the center. The Strip is an amazing place to visit and
experience. Las Vegas is known as the
city that never sleep (well all American Cities are like that) and in Vegas
there are over 200 casinos that are in mostly every building! Every hotel has a casino in it and a famous
casino on the Strip that some of you might have heard of is called Caesars
Palace. It is the biggest casino in the
world and it’s also a hotel. We managed
to look inside and it is amazing. The
feature about a casino is that it is simulated to give the impression that it’s
night so people keep going all night long and into the day sometimes. In Las Vegas people sleep in the day and come
out to party at night since it is in the middle of the desert and in the summer
can get up to 50 degrees, but at night in the winter it can get to 0 degrees. I also learnt that on average it only rains
about 4 days of the year so it is something to be cherished if your in Las
Vegas when it rains. With the rains in
the winter very rarely snow comes and only a few years ago it snowed in Las
Vegas, the city in the middle of the desert…
The Shows
Las Vegas is also well known for the shows
that it hosts like the best Illusionist in the world was there and we were
lucky enough to go and watch perform mind blowing tricks in the Hollywood
Theatre! We also went to watch the
amazing ventriloquist (a man that can speak and only open his mouth a tiny
bit)! He was also amazing and really
funny. My mum and dad went to watch the
show called “O” by Cirque de Soleil, which they thought, was absolutely amazing
as well. Cirque de Soleil has t least 7
different types of shows one of them being “Love” by the Beatles and a few more. All of the shows in Las Vegas are guaranteed
to be excellent and not boring!
The Helicopter Ride around the Grand Canyon
On the 2nd to last morning we
were in Las Vegas we went on a helicopter ride all over a small part of the
Grand Canyon and stopped for lunch over a steep cliff, which looked very
inviting. The Canyon itself was a
perfect opportunity to learn about the rocks in the Canyon faces, like the
metamorphic, sedimentary and igneous rocks.
I will put that in my science speech.
The best part about going around in a helicopter to see things is that a
helicopter can go fast and you can see things all around you clearly! Even better Steve and I got to sit in the
front seat and get the best view! The
Canyon goes 2,500 meters deep and is 700 km long, which is absolutely
amazing. You can do rafting through the
Grand Canyon, which takes 2 weeks to a month to complete! The tour was amazing and I would love to do
it again!
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| Caesars Palace! |
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| The Grand Canyon |
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| Us and the Helicopter |
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| Us in the Helicopter |
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| Our Hotel |
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| Part of the Strip at Night! |
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| The Arc de Triumph on the Strip! |
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| Venice on the Strip |
The best way to experience Vegas is to experience EVERYTHING at Vegas! The helicopter ride you had looks so cool! Staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel must have been one of the coolest parts of going to Vegas, huh? My friends and I were there for one whole week, and we all had a great time. They have these escalators that are surrounded by mirrors, thus creating an illusion that is just splendid.
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