Today, we took a trip to the big town of Las Vagas. It surely has changed since I was last here in the late 70's. We drove from the south end of town to the north end of the strip, turned around and drove back to the south end. There is a lot of traffic and more pedestrians than you can shake a stick at. There are escalators at most intersections moving the foot traffic to upper walkways. Each also has an elevator to make the walkway accessible.

Parking is difficult to find, some underground parking garages, but very little surface parking along the strip.

As you can see in the photos there is very little real estate that is not in use. In the second photo of the Statue of Liberty, you can see the rail of the roller coaster that actually covers the complete block. Also you can see other replica buildings from the New York area.

I was driving and watching traffic and pedestrians and Evelyn was taking photos. The complete strip is just beautiful, one beautiful building after another. It seems that everyone is trying to outdo the other as far as design and size is concerned. Just one magnificent building after another.

We finally went farther south on the strip and visited the Bass Pro Shop and the attached Silverton Casino. After touring the Bass Pro Shop we went to the casino, got our Players card with $5.00 free money to play the slots as well as the opportunity to visit their buffet for $5.00 each.

We visited the buffet and what a beautiful facility with excellent food including all kinds of fish, roast beef, all kinds of Italian dishes, as well as Oriental dishes and American food, a very nice salad bar and a complete desert bar. A real treat indeed.

Later we went to the slots and turned our two $5.00 free cards into $11.98, so we basically ate for free and a little left over. A really fun outing.