I’ll bring together a few days in Las Vegas in to a single day. Las Vegas is renowned for the casinos, but there is a lot more to the city if you look around. There are casino shuttles and taxis that take you around – but there also is standard public transport in the city, which works fairly well and extends over a wise range outside the main areas.
One of the interesting places was a pin ball collection. It is just a big room with loads of machines. Good fun for a couple of hours.
One of the interesting museums was the National Atomic Testing Museum. Just outside of Las Vegas is the place where most of the US underground nuclear tests were carried out, and this museum explains what happened there.
But there is a lot more in the museum that covers stuff that isn’t well known. For example – Kennedy made that statement about sending a man to the moon. There is a reference to “the other things”. If you look at the full text of the speech to congress you will find “accelerate development of the Rover nuclear rocket. This gives promise of some day providing a means for even more exciting and ambitious exploration of space” – this is one of the “other things”.
This is a nuclear propulsion system – yes they were developed and tested near Las Vegas. There is also a really nice annex about Area 51 and UFO sightings.
Las Vegas itself has a lot of glitz in the buildings.
I always like to stay in circus circus – at the end of the strip. It has a circus above the casino and a theme park behind the hotel. More than just a casino with rooms.
I also found a really interesting restaurant.
The heart attack grill – totally non-PC. As you enter you get dressed in a surgical gown. All of the food is fat increased or high sugar. I hear only one person has actually had a heart attack while eating there.
I’ve just been watching an old episode of Room 101. One of the items was around sneezing in public – something fairly relevant to today. But there was another “hilarious” idea laughed about – which was pedestrians having to walk in lanes. And yet today we are all walking in lanes.
Today was my soup making day – which used up the last of my Marmite. I only made a small portion, so I just have four days to find a new supply.
I fitted some supports for my vine to grow on behind my new decking. A few more bits and pieces and it will ready for sitting on.