Vegas Trip Part III: Luxor

 

We left the Grand Canyon Sunday evening and arrived back in Sin City before midnight. Luxor would be our home until Tuesday morning. Luxor is the black pyramid you see on the strip with the beam of light coming out the top. It's pretty cool inside - the pyramid is hollow and the rooms line the walls. You can see people walking along the sides all the way up.

Excalibur is right next door. You definitely smell the difference between Aria and Excalibur. A lot more smoky and musty up in here.

New York New York is also nearby. Wasn't very lucky in there.

On Monday morning we checked out the Titanic exhibit at the Luxor. It was pretty interesting. They had a huge chunk of the Titanic on display (it took them four years to pull it out of the ocean) as well as many personal belongings found from the wreckage. At the beginning of the exhibit you get a passenger bio card and at the end you can see if your passenger survived or not. Unfortunately my passenger did not survive.

After the exhibit, George, Dave, and Roy entered a poker tournament in the Luxor Poker Room. Dave ended up in the top two and split the first and second prizes. It was a nice bonus for his retirement trip.

That night we met up with George's friend again and went over to the Las Vegas Hotel to see Raiding the Rock Vault. He got the tickets for free so we happily obliged. It turned out to be a pretty awesome show.

I don't really recognize these names other than Tracii Guns from GNR but the band names were definitely familiar, like Badfinger, Heart, and Bad Company.

We had seats on the far right, 3 rows back from the stage.

In between songs and sets they'd have a little skit about the life and times during the 60's, 70's, and 80's that inspired the music. There'd also be factoids displayed on the large screens behind the musicians about the song or artist that was being featured. So it was an educational rock show to boot.

Tracii Guns

The groupies were out in full force.

 

Jason Boyleston was filling in that night on the guitar. Jon Anderson from YES was the guest performer. He sang "Owner of a Lonely Heart" among other songs. They played a lot of classics and they sounded Uh-mazing. This show was fun and people love it.

Roy and I after the show. The guy in the shades behind us is David Kershenbaum. He's a big time record producer. Who knew? His OOTD was definitely unique so I guess it makes sense plus he was seated front and center.

After the show we headed down to Fremont Street to see the light show. That night they played a Beatles' song. It was groovy.

Roy stopped in at the Golden Nugget to buy gold. He saw this on TV and it actually vends gold at the current market price.

Here is us being silly. This was just a practice run ^_~



Vegas was such a fun trip and I can't wait to go back! There's so much more to see and do (and eat).