Las Vegas Day Four

On the forth day in Vegas, we wanted to finish visiting everything on the Strip. We still needed to visit the south strip where the New York hotel, Mandalay Bay, and MGM hotel are located.

The first thing we did was to go to visit MGM and the lion habitat. It is pretty amazing that the hotel offers guests and visitors to see these lions for free. The habitat is located right in the middle of the hotel and the casino.

The New York Hotel is located very close to the MGM. There is a replica of the Statue of Liberty and they have also built a couple of structures that look like the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building to name a few.

After some sightseeing, we went to Mandalay Place to have dinner. We went to a Mexican restaurant and the food pretty good. They had nachos for most dishes and we ordered their special 10-ounce steak that came with sour nachos and broiled peppers.

The day before, we had dinner at the Harley Davidson café, which is a place very similar to Hard Rock Café and Planet Hollywood. The food was good there too. I had a burger and my girlfriend had something that we still are not sure of what it was. It was still yummy though.

Conclusively, the food in New York is much better, easier to find, and more affordable than in Vegas. We still enjoyed a couple of burgers, fast food, and other dishes in Vegas though. For example, at our hotel, we ordered a delicious double bacon burger from a deli twice because it was good and because it was hard to find other good restaurants close to our hotel.

After dinner, we visited Excalibur and Luxor. Luxor was really awesome because they have the famous pyramid with the sphinx there.  The sphinx was much bigger than I anticipated it to be and the pyramid has a huge spotlight on top of it that sends out a beam of light at night that looks very cool.

I have not mentioned anything about gambling yet. I guess most people who go to Vegas gamble but we tried not to risk too much. We actually gambled at the McCarran Airport instead when we were waiting at the gate the last day. We became $10 poorer.

Before going back to the hotel, we wanted to visit the Fremont Street Experience. That was one of the most exciting things I have ever seen. The street performers are great and the roof is basically a huge screen. When music was played, the screen portrayed all kinds of graphics. It also showed people who were interviewed on the street.