A Saturday In Las Vegas On The Strip - Winning At Slots / Top Of Eiffel Tower & Big Changes To Blvd
Las Vegas Strip Nov 2024
Transcript
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today's adventure begins right outside
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the Flamingo
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Hotel right here on the Vegas
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Strip big ferris wheel right there as a
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recording of this
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Saturday November 16th
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2024 I am in Vegas I believe that this
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leads over to a montre rail that runs
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through I am going to do a variety of
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things in this vicinity
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welcome everyone wearing an appropriate
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Flamingo shirt and check this out I
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bought a little hoodie I had the winter
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coat when I was up in Alaska recently it
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was a little too heavy so last night
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went to the gift shop well this morning
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went to the gift shop really early and
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purchased this shirt and I got a little
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little hoodie there in case I need it
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temperature is awesome I'm going to walk
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around this General vicinity hit the
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strip might go up in the Eiffel Tower
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might take your monel join me shall you
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nice little water feature here has the
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Flamingo Las Vegas emblem on the side of
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this little
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waterfall this the first time I've ever
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stayed here I think I stayed on the
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Strip one time I stayed at Circus Circus
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many years ago and another time at New
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York New York but I don't really recall
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the New York New York that's where they
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have the skyline of New York City and
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all that but I really like this vicinity
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I was kind of looking at the general map
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on the layout of the land and I'm kind
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of right in the belly of the the Beast
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I'm in the heart of the strip in a lot
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of ways so I'm going to do a heart of
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the Las Vegas Strip episode today
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wildlife habitat where the beauty of
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nature meets the strip built in 1995 the
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habitat is a tribute to Bugsy Seagle the
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founder of the flamingo this is one of
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the oldest if not the oldest hotel in on
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the shrip I think there's some older
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ones uh in the vicinity over
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near uh Fremont Street I drew draw a
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blank on that but Freemont Street I
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think might have some older hotels but
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as far as Las Vegas Boulevard which is
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commonly known as oh not allowed to no
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smoking through here the flamingos do
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not enjoy your cigarette smoke oh we got
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flamingos over
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here cannot see flamingos standing on
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their one leg without thinking of Threes
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Company
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yeah currently at 11 111 a.m. it is 55°
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that is honestly
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Perfection per perfect perfect weather
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it's going to cool down a little bit
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tonight after sunset sunset is at 4:31
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it is nice to actually have some
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daylight wasn't a lot of daylight in
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Alaska especially the more North Alaska
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I went to definitely a lot more Daylight
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here in Vegas all right a
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$866 coffee piping hot caffeinated
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beverage here now I'm kind of I've been
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to Vegas quite a few times I don't know
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maybe five times in my life before
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sometimes more stressful than others and
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I'm kind of hoping that not having a car
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and just being right here in the thick
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of it will be a little less stressful
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than other times and sometimes in
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previous times I think I bit off a
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little more than I can chew in one day
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walking up and down the strip strip so I
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think I'm going to try to kind of keep
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it all in a general proximity uh this
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time the last few times I've stayed here
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I've stayed four or five miles outside
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Town rented a car and I even found that
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pretty stressful trying to get around
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find parking parking down here sometimes
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is a pain and also very pricey just more
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stressful than it is anything else
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so I'm kind of just doing the not have a
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car walking baby ride share public
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transit one thing about Vegas there are
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a lot of Resort Hotels all different
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areas and the strip in general is really
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really lengthy there was one time I
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walked almost from one end to the other
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and it was a full day and a a very long
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distance I don't know how many miles
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multiple dozens of miles of walking I'm
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just these my my mind that's how far it
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was I'm just staying in the this General
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vicinity this time just to show a
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general layout of the land the
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little area that I'm going to be walking
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around perusing around today without
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venturing too far away from this section
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I do need to get over to the sphere the
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last time I was here the sphere was that
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open yet so I want to take a look at
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that there's also Treasure Island I'm
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going to head over to of course I'm
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staying at Flamingo there's the High
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Roller which I might maybe I'll do
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sometime while I'm here I'll do the High
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Roller which is the big ferris wheel
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there's also Paris there and the bagia
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so what a that's that's what my game
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plan is today moderate game plan no real
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game plan but that's the that's the map
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game the mapish game plan hitting a
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little pocket of wind over here at the
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Venetian over here at the Venetian there
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a little wind pocket through here a
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little getting a little Gusty where the
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Sands used to be legendary photo of the
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Rat Pack with Frank sonra Dean Martin
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Samy Davis Jr Peter Lawford and Joey
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Bishop was taken at the spot in 1960
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adjacent to the strip right there they
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are all standing and right here they
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have immortalized them with their
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Footprints artistic renderings of their
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Footprints I highly doubt these are
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probably their Footprints but it does
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make sense that they put this here or
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maybe they were their Footprints but
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highly doubtful but still pretty dang
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cool that they were standing right here
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in this spot right here the legend in
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the early 60s five stars were Headliners
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of the FED Copa room inside the Sand
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hotel in the approximate locations oh
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there we go approximate location of
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where these legendary Stars what stood
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for this photo pretty dang
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awesome Venetian oh this is where they
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have I think the Venetian inside is
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where they have the gondolas they have
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the gondolas in the water and all that
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in there this the last time I was here
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the Mirage has been torn down right
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there you got the uh you got the Thanks
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for the Memories 34 memorable years and
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you can still see the two busts over
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there of Sig freed and Roy right there
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still there for now the archway there
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building still there and I guess is
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turning into a Hard Rock Hotel in casino
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and they fully removed the water feature
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that was
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here as shown up there on the
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side the Ever Changing landscape here
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just it seems like everything's always
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constantly changing here they just took
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they just tore the Tropicana down which
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is where the new a stadium is going to
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be built where for the Oakland days in a
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few years when they build the stadium
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where the Tropicana Hotel was here also
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they're building this there's a there's
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a big race coming up I think next
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weekend and they're starting to they're
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starting to build little platforms for
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it beautiful in here there's a lot of
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people waiting to get a photo in front
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of that love sculpture that's right
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there but yeah very very beautiful
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inside this casino all set up and
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decorated for fall through
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here I mean one thing I will say about
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Vegas they uh some of these major
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casinos really theming is on point that
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is for sure just very
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Magnificent the house money has gone
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towards some very decorative things
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wiener dog weer Dog With a little wiener
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packaging around he's dressed like a
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little hot dog hot dog bun this is
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definitely one of the coolest things I
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mean it's like one of the uh like day
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indoor for outdoor type of theming
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through here where you got the clouds up
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top it appears as if you're outside
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really you are inside and the gonders
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are working hard over there giving
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people a really good experience on the
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gondolas and some people he even tossed
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some coins down in here and dollars you
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probably you probably have better luck
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throwing in here and trying to get a
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wish that you would putting that in a
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slot machine to be honest you probably
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luck would probably be a little bit
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better making a wish goon style oh is he
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singing someone was
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singing look at that
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how freaking cool is this
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right nice yeah you would just assume if
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you just saw this without me walking in
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here that you were outside I mean closer
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look you can see that that's a painting
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up there but it definitely has that uh
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that indoor for outdoor Vibe similar to
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the Mexico Pavilion at Epcot if you're
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familiar with that it's kind of the kind
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of the same type of setup really would
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be a neat experience to to go on one of
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the little gondola
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gond is through there I mean just take a
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look at this how this definitely looks
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like I'm outside got yeah definitely got
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all the fences set up for the race is
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going to be
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happening I believe it's the end of next
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week the Forum Shops inside Caesar
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palace is a pretty cool show we go check
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that out impressive sculpture right out
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front here too as well with the I think
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maybe there used to be a water feature
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here that was like kind of like putting
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the water up in the air but I could be
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you know what I might be completely
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wrong with that either way just a
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beautiful building right there there
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holy crap what is this look at this like
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animatronic type of thing right here
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over here at a place called gentle
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monster oh my Lord that
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is that's
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something look at
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this
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wow holy cow and inside here is the
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Magnificent fountain
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of the
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Gods this is on the way over to the
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water and fire show which is
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amazing it's uh really really
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incredible some of the stuff in these
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places it looks like the show is
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happening right now over there I think
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it happens like every hour looks like
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it's in the process of happening at the
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end of this Corridor right over
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here man this thing is like one of the
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coolest freaking
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shows definitely highly recommend to
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come check this out
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mean they got the great little
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animatronics up here moving around
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getting ready to choose the successor
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over here there a whole plot line to it
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but there's like water fire all kind of
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stuff going on look at that yes look at
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that Wing creature there
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wow never I love this
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climactic ending so dang
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cool so dang
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cool yes would be interesting to know if
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they're planning on
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keeping both of these if they're going
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to remove those over time right now
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they're behind a little
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fence I would imagine they probably keep
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them be honest I don't know if I've ever
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been inside Treasure Island before but
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I'm going to walk in here look at this
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motorcycle they call it TI now not
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Treasure Island it gets referred to now
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as TI for sure all right I figured since
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I was in here might as well do a little
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uh do a splin the spin the Blazing
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double this these things never end well
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but you just got to kind of go into it
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knowing that you're not going to walk
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away a millionaire you just have to kind
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of do your thing it's also interesting
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too they uh have ashtrays right down
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here oh
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wait what what
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the
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okay uh I just won some
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money I will be cashing out after
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this okay
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$349 I started with like 50 yeah let's
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uh let's uh let's cash this bad boy out
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uh how do you do that uh cash cash
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credit here we go let's hit that and
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let's let's process the ticket here
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there we go
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boom thank you
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TI I was distracted by the I was looking
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at the uh the ashtray over here yeah
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never always walk away when you uh when
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you when you win a little bit dang okay
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yeah so uh 350 I put 50 in so yeah I
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went a little bit that's heck yeah I was
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not I kind of went in thinking I was
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just going to lose it but yeah yeah I
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guess uh luck is on my side with a uh
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triple blazing double boom and this is
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an unused matchbook that was right down
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there that I was looking at when that
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happened I was just distracted I kept
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just pushing the the BET Max which is a
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$3 bet so I I'm up uh I'm up I'm up a
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little bit okay I'm done that's it
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that's my uh that's my gambling for the
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time frame here I uh can't always want
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to uh walk away you want to walk away
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with a win I came back up to the room
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for a little bit look at the traffic
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down here is very very Bumper to
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Bumper and also the tower the Eiffel
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Tower appears to be illuminated now over
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there I'm going to go up in the Eiffel
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Tower all right there it is and all its
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Glory going to go to the tip another
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little area that you walk through over
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here that appears to be outdoors but
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technically inside that's definitely a
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lot of the buildings here do that you
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can get your you can get your slot
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machine on in here and then go up into
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the Eiffel Tower you can even see the
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fake clouds in the roof up there and
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there's the base of one of the one of
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the legs of the tower right there
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there's another one over there as
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well yeah going to get a good bird's eye
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of Vegas at night the top of the Eiffel
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Tower Recreation going to the second
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level on the bridge and they have this
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little display of all the different
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locks on the bridge this is just the
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only section that has the locks on the
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bridge but it's supposed to signify
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going over the bridge heading to the
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Eiffel
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Tower pretty pretty dang neat you got a
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little slot machines down there got all
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the cherubs walking
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by people taking photos through here
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then you got the little uh little legs
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right
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there this is freaking awesome look at
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the sphere over
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there the High Roller which is the
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ferris wheel also Moon very much in view
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tonight very bright
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moon over there there's the flamingo
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where I'm staying right there there's
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the flamingo the
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Venetian Trump Tower Treasure
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Island Caesar
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palace
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bagio oh this this is so
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cool look at this
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traffic look at this traffic down
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here definitely Bumper to Bumper congest
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traffic I was here last time I think the
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last time I was here was maybe a year
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and a half ago two punk rock Bowlings
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ago they not the last Punk Rock Bowling
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I didn't go to but the year before that
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it's been about a year and a half and I
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believe it was right where before the
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sphere
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opened there an airplane taken off over
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there the airport's right over there
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here's the Hilton here's plantet
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Hollywood looking through this little
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box here little phone
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section you got the Paris balloon down
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there there's the MGM over
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there manderlay Bay
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Cosmo this is just such a great view
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what's going on over
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here got the pyramid over there the
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Luxor I believe it's called you got the
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pyramid with the light going up to the
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sky I saw that last night when I landed
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and just talked to the guy that was up
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here and he said in just a couple
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minutes on the hour they're going to
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have the water show at the bagio
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directly below where I'm standing so I'm
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going to wait around before that this
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new hotel the Cosmopolitan is huge huge
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that is a it's massive this angle we
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wait for the water show taking a look at
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the sphere from
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here didn't mean that make that rhyme
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but yeah look at that looks like the
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Earth what's that the Earth right there
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it's made to look like a
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globe where is Barrow Alaska on that
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Globe just look for the ice and snow
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definitely a completely
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different it's like a polar opposite
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night and day difference than when I was
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in
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Alaska where was just Solitude at most
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of the places very few
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people this is
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a this is a
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180 all right here it is a good view
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from the bashio water show down
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there I was just watching Oceans 11 on
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the plane yesterday coming into here and
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there was a this water show was used a
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couple times in the movie in fact I
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think there was a scene where Julia
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Roberts is over there standing on top of
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that parking structure right over there
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and you can see definitely the lights
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are off at the Mirage which is going to
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be the Hard Rock
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Hotel there's definitely a little Gusty
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up here though definitely a little windy
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higher up elevated like
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this I thing eventually I don't know
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when I'm going to get over there but I
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want to go up in the real Eiffel Tower
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but this is a pretty good close second
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there also an Eiffel Tower Recreation at
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at
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Epcot but it's way smaller and it's on
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top of the building you can't go up in
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it sry right over back where ratu
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is this is a much better
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Recreation can't speak on the the real
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one cuz I haven't been there have but I
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will at some
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point yeah the sphere is so wild thing
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is
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huge sphere all the different things
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they put on it
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this is not the tippy
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top time I think of the Eiffel Tower
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also I think a Superman 2 so where the
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Tropicana was was past MGM right there
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so you got plet Hollywood you got MGM
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there's like an empty kind of like
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Barron lot right there that's where the
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Tropicana Hotel was that they just
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imploded and that's where the a the
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Oakland A formerly the Oakland A's are
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going to play when they become the Vegas
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A's in a few years for now they're going
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to be at Sacramento for a few
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years back up in my room
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now kind of looking out over the window
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here pretty nice view from this section
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you see
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the Vegas Strip right down there Las
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Vegas
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Boulevard a lot of traffic going
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on yeah good first full day here in Las
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Vegas got in really late last
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night so I had a nice day walking the
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boulevard walking the strip
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walking around this vicinity I walked a
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lot on the way back up here got a little
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little b-roll walking walking around
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couple little couple little things throw
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in throw in here at the
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end that's going to do it for today
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thanks for
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watching Viva Las
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Vegas I'll see you the next video the
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Vlog is over