I’ve already talked ever so briefly about the visit to Vegas on Monday. The first thing you notice as you enter Vegas is the fact that it’s seriously in the middle of no where. I’ve watched Bugsy, which I think ‘tells’ the Hollywood version of how Vegas started. I’m not completely completely familiar with it’s history (it only celebrated 100 years in existence last year, so it’s not all that old).

Anyway it’s the fucking desert and there are these ABSOLUTELY ridiculously lavish hotels all over the place. We were staying at the Luxor (hey it’s a pyramid in the middle of the desert. It’s got a massive light right at the top which shines light into space or something stupid like that. So we walked down the ‘strip’ and to be honest we literally only got half way down the road,…if that. See we got to Ceasar’s Palace.

I’ve visited a number of cities around the world, and been in more hotels than I can an actually remember, but I’ll remember Ceasar’s Palace. The place was absolutely ridiculous in size. It’s not one building, but something like 10 massive buildings with a small city making up the shopping centre underneath. I design the electrical systems of buildings for a living, so whenever I walk into a place, I do the geeky thing an I check what’s going on, if there’s anything new and interesting, just to keep in mind how some things have been designed for the next time I come up with a crazy question from some crazy architect (you have to be slightly insane to be an architect, some would say you have to be COMPLETELY insane to be an architect), and there was something in Caesar’s Palace that made me stop an think:

How the fuck does that work?

I’m sorry but how the hell do you make a curved escalator? I’m going to have to do some research on that. Anywho I’ll post that fountain video once I get back to the UK. Any decent media plugins for wordpress?