Early start
Thursday morning arrives, early start to get to the airport for 07.00 am in order to catch our 09.00 am flight. It’s a journey in two stages, Boston Manchester to Chicago Midway, then change for Las Vegas. We had a good breakfast right next to our gate, and the flight was uneventful. The next gate was adjacent to the one we disembarked from so no mad dash across the terminal.
The only fly in the ointment, my case was 5 lbs overweight, fortunately Elisabet’s was underweight. She is only travelling for 12 days, not six months, so it should be right! What was more disconcerting was that I was still overweight after filling the backpack I bought! But I had also bought jeans and some t shirts, still it didn’t make a lot if sense to me. They wanted 70$ for 5 LBS of excess weight which seemed a excessive to me. Excuse the pun. So a quick move of my bath bag to Elisabet’s case and that did the trick. Maybe I will just stay dirty in the future. Well I have until 31st October to sort this little issue out, I may have to send my walking shoes home after next week. Next week you say, why after next week. All will be revealed.
We had some views of the Chicago skyline when we came in to land there, but we were on the wrong side of the plane to get any photos. The next flight was much more interesting in terms of the landscape we could see, the Rockies, then the Grand Canyon. I was completely blown away by the size of Las Vegas; it is enormous with a population of about two million people.
Move to Pacific time
Having landed, we put our watches back three ours to Pacific Time and were determined to keep going. We arrived at our hotel The Palazzo and were allocated to a room on the 40th floor. I am terrified of heights so was very trepidatious of how I would deal with being so high up. The lift we use, sorry I should say elevator, is very fast and only stops at a few floors before it speeds up to the floors above 37.
The room is fabulous, however, no tea of coffee making facilities, no bubble bath, and maid service has been non-existent. You should see how full our bin is, empty bottles of water of course!
A few pics of the hotel below.
