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EF, fashion show mall, hotels, las vegas, nevada, new york new york, ontario mills, optional weekend, paris, video update
So, last Friday, we had a free morning and then after lunch, we sat down in the bus and started our journey to Las Vegas. After driving for about an hour and a half, we stopped at a mall called Ontario Mills. It was huge and they had so many stores. We stopped there to wait out the heat so it wouldn’t be so warm when we got to Las Vegas. We had dinner there, Panda Express as usual, and then at 6.15 we were back on the bus. We arrived in Las Vegas around 11.30 pm. But instead of going straight to the hotel, we went to Freemont street for a while and got back to the hotel at around 12.30 pm.
The next day, we had breakfast at the hotel and then met at the bus at 10 am. The bus took us to the Treasure Island hotel and we had about four and a half hours to do whatever we wanted. Teresa, Josefine, Arbana and I went to Fashion Show mall. After meeting at the bus at around 2.30 pm we went back to the hotel to have some time to take a shower, change clothes or take a dip in the pool. At 5 pm we were to meet at the bus again to go to the Stratosphere tower for a buffet and to spend the evening up in the tower and watch Las Vegas from above. The dinner was good and the view was really nice. They had a few roller coasters on top of the tower and right when we were on our way to go up and ride them, they closed them because of a risk of lightning.
The next morning we were supposed to have our bags packed and wait by the bus at 10.30 am. This time, they dropped us off outside the hotel New York New York. We had decided to check out all the cool hotels this day. It was so warm that we had to hurry from hotel to hotel to get in to the air condition. It was fun to see all the crazy hotels they’ve come up with. At 3 or 4 pm we met at the bus again and this time to go back to campus.
It was a really fun weekend but it was soooo hot. It was cool to see all the hotels and the city built in the middle of the desert. I don’t think I’ll go back there anytime soon so I’m glad I chose this optional weekend.
Here is a short video to show more of what we did.
To skip the intro, fast forward to 0.22. I’m sorry for the bad music but I’m not very good at choosing good music so I just took something from the iLife sound effects on iMovie.