Usual reasonably early start and a session looking at emails and photos before leaving around 10am.

Caught the bus to the Venetian and had a coffee (chatted to English couple from Manchester) and spent the rest of the morning wandering around this amazing place. Had lunch in the Food Court, talking to two couples from North Carolina.

After lunch walked across to Mirage and went into Siegfried and Roy’s Secret Garden and watched the dolphins. The Secret Garden is where the lions, leopards and white tigers are kept.

Came back to the Luxor on the bus mid-afternoon, downloaded photos, uploaded a few more to Facebook and had a rest.

Went back out about 6pm to go down to Freemont St. Made a complete hash of getting the Gold Line (limited stop) bus. We went out via the Mandalay Bay and ended up having to walk down the car ramp and making an impromptu crossing of Las Vegas Boulevard. We then found we were not at the Mandalay Bay stop but at the Four Seasons stop which is only for the Deuce bus. We had to watch a Gold Line go past. We got the Deuce bus one stop to what they call Mandalay Bay but is in fact outside Luxor. Interesting drive down to Freemont St passing some quite derelict areas.

Freemont St is mind boggling. Almost every square inch of wall is illuminated. Live music at a couple of points in the street. After we’d been there for about 10 minutes the 7pm light show started on the barrel-vault that covers the street. It literally stopped everybody in their  tracks. Virtually nobody moved - everyone simply looked at the display on the ceiling. Anne managed to take some video.

After it ended we walked down to the end of the street and found a casino doing a buffet for $12.50. Very good as this included apple and orange juice which costs $4 a time in most places anyway. Anne had mahi-mahi and Les had chicken and ribs. We came back out just in time for another light show which was probably even better than the first one. The high point being a shuttle taking off and running down the whole length of the street, followed by clouds of flame. This brought spontaneous applause. When this finished we walked back to the centre and caught the bus back to Luxor. Got back about 9.15.

We wrote the above after we  got back in. What we didn't realise at the time was that Les had got food poisoning from the buffet!