From Serenity to the Craziness of Vegas

The night has been way better than I expected it to be and I felt mostly refreshed the next morning. I woke up early to quite a spectacle right in front of our camper. The goats living around here, apparently learned from the humans, as they knew how to open the old water connections. I followed their doing for a while before I dared going outside to get some fresh (hot) air before breakfast.
After breakfast, we dumped one last time before making our way back to Las Vegas. It took ages to fill every camper up on petrol again and the heat was unbearable (Vegas had 42°C as well), but we finally made it to the thl station. We said Goodbye to Nessie and could take another look at the very impressive A-class of El Monte, before heading off to the much smaller station of Cruise America to give back the camper of Luisa, Claudia and Sophie. Nicola and Thomas didn't give their camper back as they would stay in the US for the next week. They'd attach a holiday at Bryce Canyon and the Capitol Reef after that stressful week of a FAM-Trip.
We got a ride back to our hotel with the same black leather bus as the first time. The Rio Hotel was the complete opposite of the serene Valley of Fire. It was loud, full of dismatching colours (these carpets kill me), full of weird people and just a sensory overload. I missed the quiet, but I was dying to take a cold shower and lay in a comfortable bed, surrounded by a/c air. And that was what I was doing the next four hours. I didn't want to go to the pool or go shopping. Instead, I showered all the heat off of my body and laid in bed, sleeping a couple of hours before making myself ready for the last dinner of the trip.
We ate at the rooftop restaurant of the Rio hotel called Voodoo. The view could be found in the prices as well (1.800$ for the whole group in the end!) but the pasta was pretty tasty. After spending so goddamn much money on food (not mine, luckily), we got transferred to the Mandalay Bay to attend a show. It would be Michael Jackson One by Cirque du Soleil. We had some time to explore the hotel before the show would start. Again, this hotel is more of a city itself, having everything from a supermarket, to a beach, clothing shops and, of course, gambling. It seems as if each hotel is build so that nobody would ever need to leave it. No wonder the Lotus hotel part of the Percy Jackson story...
The show was kinda Vegas, too: Way too loud, lots of things happening at the same time, so you didn't know where to look at, and colourful. The dancing and acrobatics shown were pretty cool, though. But my ears and fingers hurt after 1,5hrs of trying to shut down the loud music.
When coming out the Mandalay Bay, we were nearly whisked away by a super strong and hot wind, but the shuttle awaited us already, so we could escape a Wizard of Oz situation.
I wanted to take an Uber to the Bellagio fountains and the Sphere, but as we calculated that we wouldn't male it in time to see the Bellagio fountain show, everyone decided against it. I was sad that I wouldn't see the famous strip being in Vegas, but I definitely didn't want to go on my own. I guess, I would need to come back to Vegas to do everything one should experience in Vegas (Bellagio fountains, Sphere, rollercoaster over the Strip, gambling, hangover). Next time. Maybe. This time it would end with a calm night alone in my hotel room, trying to digest the last week full of amazing experiences.もっと詳しく