2010 Catch Up #2: Seattle & Vegas
March 2010
Not my fault. I was lying in bed one night, possibly drunk, and I received an email informing me of a British Airways sale. It was always our intention to go over and see Stuart & Cazzie more than once and we decided instead of meeting them in Whistler again we’d go to Vegas instead and they would get the relatively short flight down from Vancouver.
Pezza & I decided to take this opportunity to pay a visit to an American city that’s been in my mind for a while. There’s so much about Seattle that’s great and we loved wandering around the city taking in the famous Pike Market, the needle and coffee – essentially a dream for any Frasier fan.
Stereotypical Seattle Space Needle Picture...
My highlight was a trip to the Experience Music Project, a shrine to Seattle music. So many of my favourite bands hail from this city and I was like a kid seeing the displays dedicated to Hendrix, Pearl Jam and Nirvana etc.
Guitar tower, Experience Music Project
After a couple of days soaking in Seattle Grunge, drinking coffee, drinking Seattle dry, touring the sports stadia and adjusting to the time difference; it was time to go to Vegas.
We stayed in the Wynn as they had a monster sale on when we booked it and as we were there for my birthday we took in one of the Vegas clubs. There’s not too much I can add other than the fact we had a brilliant time and managed to catch up with an old mate who is now a flair barman in Kahunaville, Treasure Island. We also saw the Cirque du Soleil show, Love (highly recommended).
It was a horrendously alcoholic five days and we were delighted to be able to upgrade our flights on the way home using air miles. The seven hours sleep I got on the flight home was comfortably the best night’s sleep of the trip!
You can see our pictures here.
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I love the tower of instruments? can i know if it is for real? Well if it is for real i will visit it. Anyways thank you for sharing this stuff.
About time you updated this! What would I show my students for my lecture on e-tourism? Ta Mucker xx
The Guitar Tower looks awesome!
Nice travel blog!
Oh, wow, great picture with the tower made of guitars. I also have one, but I don’t know if I’d just leave it to hang there with the others:)) Interesting idea, though.
Beautiful guitat tower! I had never seen anything like it.
I’m with you, highly recommended the Cirque du Soleil show “Love”!!
From Seattle drinking to Wynn in Vegas what a time you must have had. Have you ever stayed at Club 36?
Experience Music Project is seriously one of the best museums in the country! I love how they (Steve Jobs?) incorporate so much technology and make the experience so interactive. If my memory serve me correctly, they have studio booths where you can play along to classic rock n’ roll tracks!
Enjoyed the blog post!
Thanks for the great read. Keep it up!
Hi there,
Nice blog!
I was wondering if you’d be interested in exchanging links.
Guitat beautiful tower! I had never seen anything like it. Really nice blog
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great pics really good…