Day 7...Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - 3rd July

It is stinking hot everywhere in the USA the moment (Vegas and LA anyway) and there are summer crowds everywhere. Which means that the obese people have come out of hibernation and I can't take photos of all of them coz as I'd waste all my film! They are in flocks, schools, droves etc. And I mean hideously obese with scooters and full on fat aprons and stuff and arses taking up two chairs. Am I becoming jaded? As they are so standard now that I don't get excited when I see one (because they are every 2nd person). Except when I get the Holy Grail of fat mamas and then its a bad time to photograph them because its in an obvious spot. Damn!

We slept in till late and didn't get going today until around 2pm. We had breakfast at the Grand Lux Cafe at the Venetian again because we don't want to dice with going anywhere else and get fattening crap. We then wandered around the Strip for the rest of the day including Ceasars, New York New York, and MGM Grand. We got a huge yard glass of booze (a daquiri) but it was more slushy than alcoholic beverage. We saw the weird statue show at Ceasars and the lions at MGM grand and it was just nice walking around.

Then we went home to Circus Circus to get changed for the night out, and got a fright because there must have been a convention for "fucked up mongers" convention or something like that. I came out of the lift and nearly walked smack bang into some hugely obese old guy in a scooter wearing a surgical face mask with half his face missing (including his eye) and the other eye all purplish and the rest of his face all fleshy and weird looking. I did a quick (hopefully subtle) half turn and headed for another part of the hotel and inside the lift I was heading for was another old dude whose face looked like it had skidded along the road for a wee while and it was all shiny and looked like part of it had elephantitis of the face (not the nuts unfortunately) and he had a small black eye.

We ate dinner downstairs in the Circus Circus diner called the Pink Pony (graveyard menu $3.99 for eggs and toast and $9.99 for prime rib in the evening - right on!) Nathan ate the prime rib and I drank soup and laughed at the decor which looked like a My Little Pony on the walls - quality. We then headed to New York New York to the Coyote Ugly club as we got free entry cards. There were over excited yanks everywhere 'woo hooing' and stuff and I cracked up laughing. The girls from the crowd got to dance on the stage (which is what Coyote Ugly is famous for) and getting free shots. They were kind of mongers so I started building my confidence up to go up there too. I kept saying to Nate "should I? I should yes? ....Actually, no that's crap....or should I go up there?" for a while, then finished my drink and got some confidence. (No idea where I got that from haha). So after getting a bit tipsy I thought I would fit right in with the mongers so headed up there to dance. Lucky for me (not) it ended up being to a Metallica song which was really hard to dance to - especially as most of the girls were simply dry humping each other on stage. So I ended up grinning and waving to Nate for most of the time but I did get some 'high fives' from the yankee guys when I got off stage so I guess it was ok.

We then left and ended up stopping past a duelling piano bar which was hitting the roof at the time. They did a short riff of "Land Down Under" at some point, and I was pissed so started shouting "Aussie Aussie Aussie!" much to Nathan's consternation.

* I will note that most Americans that we speak to actually pick our accents up as Australian, which is way different from last time!

We then ended up in bed around 4am.