This time we stayed at the Marriott Grand Chateau, at our nicest suite yet, although the building outside our suite was not comparable to the Venetian. This time it came with a kitchen:
And a plasma-screen TV with DVD player:
Not to mention two bathrooms and two bedrooms, and the view from our window looked like this:
But the view from the rooftop pool area was better:
And of course, it was neat swimming at night on the rooftop pool:
Across the street we had the Aladdin hotel, where I tried out my glamour-photo technique:
And thanks to the improved camera, it was nice to finally be able to take pictures in some of the darkened indoor areas of certain Las Vegas attractions like the Mandalay Bay Shark Reef:
Seriously, the last time we were there, we tried using those cheap disposable cameras, and my advice to you all is: don't ever fucking do that. Any picture we took on our last vacation in less than ideal light turned out like shit, and most of the indoor shots had much less than ideal light. For example, I tried taking a shot of the inside of the Venetian last time, and all I got was washed out faces in front of a dark, almost black backdrop. This time, I got this:
Look at the fucking roof. It's unreal how ornate that place is. It still surprises me even after going back a second time.
Mind you, Caesar's Palace looks pretty nice on the inside too:
And on the way out of Caesar's Palace, we stumbled into an autograph signing session with Kenny Baker from Star Wars, totally by surprise:
That was cool. The Strip looks cool just walking around outside too:
And of course, we had to go to the Hoover Dam:
And then finally, we got home and saw Fuzzy again. My brother took care of him while we were gone, but he was happy to have us home again.
Just playing around with B/W pictures.
As always, more pics at the Photo Album on the main site.
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