I've always wanted to go to Vegas, so a friends Wedding combined with a wider group of friends from the UK was the perfect excuse. Further to this, it felt like good timing to catch up with some Londoners after 4 months on the road filled with multi lingual conversations and brief, transient relationships with fellow backpackers and locals.
We spent the first night in the Belaggio, then moved over the to Wynn Encore, which is a new Hotel on the strip (thanks Tom), and a pretty amazing place to say the least.
The home of excess and zero taste truly lived up to it's reputation. It truly is a disgusting place, full of disgusting trashy people, staying in mostly trashy Hotels (luckily ours wasn't), eating shit food and throwing their money down the drain.
However, having said that, we approached the week by mentally bypassing this and it was a blast. It flew by, mainly in a drunken haze whilst leaning over a roulette wheel or hanging out by the pool. The Wedding day was great fun, held at the Graceland Chapel and hosted by 'Elvis' it was the perfect Vegas Wedding.
It was great to catch up with the guys who were there, and I only left about $20 down out of my gambling budget. Some lucky gamblers in our group left a few hundred bucks up, no such luck for me unfortunately. Where I am now a few hundred US$'s would go a looooooong way.
Can't say i'll be rushing back, but i'm glad i've been. Box ticked in style!
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