Disneyland Parades!

The Night and Day parades at Tokyo Disneyland!!

Kawagoe »« Tokyo Disneyland!

P1 & P2 go to Vegas

I’ve always wanted to go to Vegas. I’m not a huge gambler, but I don’t mind a tap on the ol’ pokies (poker machines) either. Wonder I get that from? *cough* mum and & dad *cough*

My little sister (OK older than me, but still little) was heading to Vegas for the 3rd time with her husband, and I was planning my way from Toronto to London via Japan, so it was the perfect chance to catch up after 3.5 years!..and maybe throw on a dime or two.

I recruited Aussie Pete 2 from the hostel (me being the original Aussie Pete 1) and we set off for 4 days of fun, booze, gambling, no sleep, and of course to meet my sister!

After a night at the airport and no sleep we arrived in Las Vegas airport, where there are pokies before you even go through immigration! We stayed at Planet Hollywood in the “Fugitive” room, smack bang in the center of the strip, and left the hotel a bit after mid day. About 15min later we had our first drink on the streets of Vegas!

We went to meet Pete 2′s parents who were also in town, grabbed a cocktail jug from Rhumbar, and ran around like kids in a playground.

Vegas really is like adult Disneyland. Its a theme park where you must be at least 21 to go on the rides. The whole town is based around having fun, and even if you don’t like booze or gambling its still a big attraction. All the casinos want your gambling dollars, so they entice you with Broadway style shows, themes, rides, statues, dancers etc; The Grand Canyon is a few hours away; The weather is great most of the year; And everyone is just there to party!

We had an awesome time just getting up to shenanigans. Between the two of us we took over 2,000 photos and its too hard to write everything we got up to so just check out the photos and read the descriptions! More posts to come!
FYI, 4 days really isn’t enough for Vegas. Especially if it’s your first visit!

 

The Grand Canyon »« St Patrick’s Day 2010, Toronto

American Natural History Museum, NYC

There’s two things that will actually get me interested in a museum, one is having stuff you can play with, the second is dinosaurs And while the American Natural History Museum is severley lacking the former, it has loads of the latter!

There’s a couple of huge, complete dinosaur skeletons including a T-Rex and a Diplodocus, and other giant prehistoric beasts like the Woooly Mammoth. We spent a fair few hours here. Its also across from Hyde Park and close to Peacefoods Cafe as I mentioned in the last post!

NYE in NYC »« New York City!

Brighton, England

Winter isn’t exactly the best time to head to Brighton, most people go for the beach, but I’d never been, I wanted to visit Vegetarian Shoes, and it fit into my tourist-in-london mentality!

Vegetarian Shoes is a UK shoe company making ethical, vegan shoes. Their quality is top-notch, and while you can buy online, I wanted to check the fit and get some decent boots to handle a Canadian winter! And with the $4 fake vans I had from Thailand being my only current shoes before picking up my gear in Gosport, I needed them badly!

I tried one of the many veggie restaurants for a quick lunch and headed out to Brighton Pier. To get to the end of the pier you basically have to walk through a gambling hall, and out to the abandoned theme park. There were people there manning some of the rides, but I highly doubt they were going to get any customers.

With the rain picking up and getting colder, there wasn’t a lot to do really so I got a vegan hot chocolate and headed back to london!

New York City! »« UK Xmas 2009