A walk on the strip in the morning

After going to bed sometime after 4, we still woke up a bit before 8, and as it felt like we were not very likely to fall back asleep, we decided to go for a walk on the strip in the daylight too. It actually stretches along for multiple miles, so we didn't even make it all the way to the end, and still walked quite a lot. The casinos look quite cool in the morning too (although they are best at night of course). Most of them have an elaborate theme going on, so the Paris casino has a replica of the Eiffel tower, that is 1/3 of the original size, and is full of fancy French restaurants. The venetian has canals around it where you can ride gondolas in, and also has a replica of the bell tower of St. Mark's Basilica. The Flamingo casino had a nice garden inside, with all kind of birds living in it, including (you guessed it) a flock of flamingos. In front of one casino they had live music, dancers, and daytime fireworks. We went inside a shopping mall, where the ceiling of the mall is made to look like it is daylight all day, and there's a part where they have a rainstorm, with lightning and actual rain falling every half an hour. Which sounds really cool (at least it sounded awesome to me when a colleague of mine told me about it back in Scotland), but it was a bit underwhelming to be honest. For breakfast we tried panda express, and had a Starbucks coffee (there's literally a Starbucks on every corner, and yet there's still a big line in most of them. It's like they don't know any other coffee exists).Read more