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Ok so I must first say that Vegas is awesome. Now that that's out of the way. Everyones first visit to Vegas should just be written off as just a getting your feet wet experience. You'll most likely spend all your time just walking around doing the touristy stuff. Which is cool since there's a lot of stuff to see, the strip alone is worth a couple of days, and especially nights, of walking around and just looking at all the casinos. If you can be on your feet for a few hours then walking down the strip at night is definitely worth doing. Between all the lights, 30 foot TV screens, fountains and the casinos all lit up it's like wandering around a Disneyland for adults.

Even if you're not up for gambling there is tons of stuff to do, I spent way more money on attractions than gambling. With all the different roller coasters and rides you could spend a couple of weeks just seeing stuff and not have to worry about hitting a show or a slot machine. The view from the Slingshot on top of the Stratosphere is also breath taking, being 1150ft above the strip gives you a great perspective of just what Vegas is all about. You have the strip and not a whole lot else. If you get more than a couple of blocks from the strip then you wander into just a regular small town, not unlike most of the small SoCal that are just across the border. Aside from the fact that most the waitresses in the casinos wearing little more than what you'd see at the beach, it's also pretty kid friendly. I'd probably take my son there for a few days when he gets a few years older and can be let to wander if he wants to.

I went down with my folks, which kinda led to me not doing all the heavy partying that I was planning on, but did have a good time. Next time I go I'm totally going either alone or with a couple of friends, 'cause it's going to be all about me and some heavy abuse of my own body through lack of sleep and alcohol ingestion. I'm trying to make plans for going out during the week in February when they host the porn conventions, not that I'm that into porn but hey if they're throwing a convention it's something I want to experience it.

Oh, almost forgot I got a couple of tattoos while I was there. I know, it's cliche but I've been wanting them for a while and figured it would make a nice souvenir. I got a couple of Japanese cherry blossom based tattoos, one on each shoulder. They're kinda the start of a chest piece I want, have it all planned just need to get someone good to do the drawing and ink.

I took a bunch of pictures that I'll be uploading to my Flickr account, they'll all be tagged with the Vegas keyword if you're interested.

-nurple