this entry will be picture heavy

i guess the warning was too late, since as you're reading this the pictures are already loading, but then that's just too bad.

sam, david, and i stayed at stratosphere, which has an observation deck on the 108th floor. here are some pictures from the observation deck:













even 108 floors above the ground, there is still no escape from starbucks.



so i gave in and ordered a grande java chip with cinnamon syrup.

pictures from the strip:













arvin told us that bellagio has a really good buffet, so we went there to feast. the inside of bellagio is pretty nice, with all the miniature decoration:











at bellagio, three of us paid a total of $80 to eat as much as we can and vomit. we started out with seafood and steak,



but eventually ended up killing many many crabs to get our money's worth.







this is the crab killer.



the chocolate eclair killed me.



david became a nickel slot junkie after buffet.



and a sucky one at it, too.

the strip at night:















same scene as above, but played around with the aperture and shutter speed a bit.



monte carlo.







two wandering idiots:



on the way to excalibur.







inside excalibur.







luxor. we enter through the sphinx's ass hole.





rumor has it that the these stones, despite the hieroglyphic text carved on them, are actually made in china, like everything else in this country. i guess the chinese now speak mandarin, cantonese, and hieroglyphs.



inside of luxor:





mandala bay casino:



by this time, they all started to look just like each other, kinda like asians.