Day 3 - 17th Feb 2009

Another early start to our day, Adam decided we should leave the hotel at 6am, I thought this was probably too early, but went along with the plan and we were only about 5 mins late leaving. We then had to walk to the train station, about a 10 minute walk which took longer as I kept stopping to take pictures of our final sights of Chicago. We got on the train after only a few minutes wait at the station. As the train was slowly making its way towards the airport stopping at every tiny suburb it could, I began to realise that leaving at 6am was not such a foolish idea and perhaps we should have left even earlier. Mental note to self leave more time than I initially think to get to airport! Thankfully the queue for check in was tiny and very speedy so it only took about 5 mins, unlike Heathrows 50!

Arrived in Vegas on time and after collecting our bags decided to try out the public transport. Very friendly driver said he would tell us when to get off and it would be opposite our hotel. The bus seemed very slow and definately went the long way round, but he kept his word and dropped us right across the street from the Sahara hotel. After checking in, headed off to see the Las Vegas sights. The strip is deceptively long, and even though you can see where you want to end up it is further than it looks! After a long walk we made it to the sights. Stopped in at Treasure Island to collect Cirque du Soleil tickets for tomorrow night and walked around some of the other famous casinos, Ceasar's Palace, Mirage, Belaggio and MGM. The forum at Ceasar's was probably my favourite so far. We had dinner at the Rainforest cafe inside MGM which was fun. It's decorated so you're eating inside a rainforest, complete with a waterfall, animal sound effects, fish tanks with tropical fish in and a lightning storm every half hour or so to complete the rainforest experience!