We are back from Vegas and had a great time. Spent lots of $$ and even won about $2000 between the 2 of us but wound up feeding it all back to the Casino's. We did get to take a Helicopter ride over Hoover Dam and I shot a little 3 minute video of it. It was "March Madness" and Vegas is packed durring this time. Me and a buddy spent alot of time in the sports bars drinking FREE booze from early am to wee hours of the morning on a few days. And the rest of the time was spent drinking free booze everywhere else. I am sooooo sick of Sea Food and Prime Rib I could puke just thinking about it!!
All in all it was a great vacation and can't wait to afford to do it again!!

Here is the Hoover Dam Vid...............
http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/d...t=MVI_0976.flv

 

And for those who have never been to Vegas, here is a video of the Water Show at the Billagio Hotel & Casino
http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/d...t=MVI_1004.flv

 

What Helicopter Ride Did You Take? The One That Was In The Casino Parking Lot By The Dam??

Welcome Back!

 

Yep, thats the one. We figured since we were still 3 miles from the dam and in stop-n-go traffic for an hour before we reached that casino, we would just take the Helicopter.
I'm glad we did and it was an awesome ride!! The $29 price you see is just for a 2-3 minutes flight over Lake Mead. It cost $59 per person to fly over Hoover damn and Lake Mead. Still pretty cheap for what your getting I think, especially with fuel pricec the way they are!

 

Welcome back, glad the trip was a fun one....

 

welcome back brotha! i took a helicopter ride in tennessee a few years back and it went thru some of the mountains... pretty sweet stuff but i think the hoover damn looked WAY cooler! vagas is awesome... i went a few years ago and i was under age but still had all kinds of crazy stuff to do. glad to see you had a good time!

hows that house cummin along.... this thing ever come outta the basment?

 

Welcome back Buzz !!

I took the helecopter into the Grand Canyon for lunch. It was supposed to be a couples thing, but i went by myself as my ladyfriend was sick. Worked out pretty cool because I got to sit up front. I did wander off too far though and I got in trouble with the pilot. While the other couples were eating their romantic lunch, I was looking for snakes under rocks and throwing boulders into the river.

 

I don't know buzzy but if you fed a minimum of $2000 into the machines that sounds like pretty expensive beer. Here in Nevada few of the locals actualy gamble, we say they don't big those big casinos off people winning.

 

vegas is fun, got to stay away from the tables though, i just dropped 1400 in 30 minutes in online roulette just a few days ago. texas hold em is great though.

if you go back again check our bryce canyon, its a ways north but blows the grand canyon away..

as for the hoover damn, the first and last person to die during construction were a father and son or granddad and son, something like that.

 

Well we had it worked out pretty good. Me and my buddy sat at the bar a good 6 hours out of each day. We dropped a $20 in the video poker machine and played a quarter maybe every 15 minutes or so. This was at the Plaza by the way, and we knew most of the bar tenders by name and several of the same guys we sat with over the four days. The bar tenders knew we were not spending any $$ but they didn't care. Keep the tips comeing and we drink all day. Ok so now I think about it, I tipped at least a dollar for every beer so lets just say it was some damn cheap drinking!