Aug
01
2010

The Vegas Weekend Continues

Freemount Street, Zia Records, Hard Rock Cafe

PhotosSunday, August 1, 2010 - 04:11:25 pm
(Posted Under: Travel)
Photobox ImageAmazingly, given that I'd only gotten 4 hours sleep, I woke up a little after 9 this morning. Which was actually fantastic, given how much we wanted to fit in before having to leave this afternoon.

Photobox ImageSo we got ready, checked out of the hotel, and headed to downtown Las Vegas to check it out. It's something I hadn't seen before, and so Katie was excited to take me down there. We parked at one of the casinos down there. Walking through to get onto Freemont Street, the difference from the Strip casinos was quite noticeable. And Katie pointed out the "old person" smell of he particular one we went through. We spent an hour or so down there, and it was cool checking out the older part of Vegas.

Photobox ImageFrom there, we fired up Buller, and set out to hit up one of the Vegas Zia Records locations. Unfortunately both were kinda out of the way, but in reality, it didn't take long to get to the one on Sahara. Pretty cool store, and their vinyl section seemed to be laid out a lot better than all the other locations we've been to thus far. Plus they had a cool self promotion sign as "The Last Real Record Store" back there.

We also checked out their "local" section, to see how big it was, and what they had - and were pleased to find that their local section was full of Arizona artists as well as I assume Nevada ones. Although we were on a tight schedule this morning, it meant that we had to go through the whole section to make sure there was nothing we needed. There wasn't, but like I said, quite a decent selection of Phoenix bands. Definitely glad that we headed down there. That puts our Zia locations visited tally to 5 - with 3 more left to go. Next time we're here, we definitely have to hit up the other Vegas one.

Photobox ImageOur plan after Zia's was to head back to the Strip and wait to here from Chris. Not long after leaving we did, and made plans for lunch. While we waited for him to get ready, we decided to cruise the entire length of the Strip, as I'd never been all the way south. That turned into a bit of a thing when we ended up in the airport. [smile] But once we got that sorted out, we got back to the Strip for our cruise. Along the way we spotted a Hard Rock Cafe location that we didn't know about. Our plan was to go to the one at the Hard Rock Hotel for lunch, but we quickly changed our plans given this discovery!

Photobox ImageOnce we hit the Bellagio, we parked, and right after doing so got a buzz from Chris. Awesome timing. So we picked him up, and headed down to the MGM to park. Going through the MGM was something we wanted to get done today, so it worked out pretty conveniently. Although our pace going through there was quick, we got to stop for the lion exibit which was main thing I wanted to do there. It also seemed like the first time Chris had more or less been outside of the Bellagio, so it was good to be responsible for him seeing a bit more of Vegas.

Photobox ImageLunch at the Hard Rock was cool, though time was slipping away pretty fast by this stage. So we didn't really get a chance to look around that much, and didn't have time to look at the memorabilia collection on the third floor at all. Getting nachos, and the time it takes to make your way through a massive plate of nachos really didn't help our shortening time window. We'd planned to leave Vegas at 3 and worse case scenario at 4 if we wanted to fit something else in, so when it turned 4 by the end eating it was a little stressful. A VERY quick browse through the store, a photo and final smoke with Chris, and we were on our way back to the car at the MGM.

We still had to get gas on the way out - which was quite a cluster fuck, and also put us back a bit on time. Once everything was said and done, we were on our way out of Vegas at about 4:45pm. An hour and 45 minutes after what we'd planned. That's Vegas for you. [smile]

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